How to Translate a Book

i've been trying to both make my arguments tighter and more concise, right? So sort of pack more punch per word, let's say. And then also to see if i could tie the rules together in an overarching narrative that made them co coherent as a unit. You might thinkl where's the meaning in an essay? Well, it's in the words, it's like. Well, no, no,no. Wait a second. It's way more complicated than that. The meaning is in all of those levels simultaneously. Just why translatingis so difficult. Literal translations, like, literal at what level of analysis? Literal phrase by phrase, you lose a lot of