Traducción y Filosofía

In this paper I criticize the very idea of a potentially perfect translation, carried out perhaps by a latest generation computer. I reject the oversimplistic word-to-word translation, since idioms, linguistic peculiarities, tropes and so on are indispensable for a piece of translation to have the expected reactions in the reader and thus be judged as “good”. So we have to rest content with the idea that we can at best speak only of better or worse translations so that in the last analysis the quality of a translation turns out to be a matter of degree.