LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2004
EL 1950/LE 752 - TRANSLATION
Date : 20.04.04
Duration : 9 – 12 noon
Max : 100 marks
Hours : 3 hrs
I. Answer any FOUR of the following in about 50 words each. (4 x 5 = 20 marks)
1.
What is translation?
2.
Different types of translation.
3.
What is untranslatability?
4.
Difficulties involved in use of translation in computer terms.
5.
Transliteration and transcreation.
6.
Spell out the requisites to be a translator.
II. Answer any THREE of the following in about 200 words each.
7.
Translation Equivalences
8.
Problems involved in translation of prose and solutions.
9.
Culture and translation.
10.
Translation in Language teaching.
11.
How does linguistics help an effective translation?
III. 12. Translate the following poem into Tamil.
THE ATHEIST’S CONFESSIONS
At 13 I believed in rose petals
Strewn at the earth-god’s feet.
Agarbatti aromas made me heady
And I ate prasad only after a bath.
At 14 my purse got slashed in the temple crowds.
At fourteen-and-a-half I began to wonder.
The gods no longer smiled when I prayed. They couldn’t.
They were idols of stone.
Fifteen, and the Beatles
Became my gods. I grew heady
On Chanel 25, and ate fish-fingers between sips of gin.
On world Religion Day,
I made a speech.
God didn’t exist, I said.
I was 18, and worshipped myself.
At 20, the rose petals were on my cheeks and in my hair and in the bouquets he brought when he took me out to dinner.
Then he took a blade and cut the flowers from their stems.
I wilted – he grew heady on the scent.
(3 x 10 = 30 marks)
(10 marks)

Twenty-two. I no longer worship myself, or him.
I look at the sculptures
In the puja room and wonder: are the gods faintly
Beginning to smile again?
13. Translate the following poem lines into English.
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14. Translate the following text into English and mention some of the difficulties you have encountered.
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15. Translate the following text into Tamil.
(10 marks)
W ildlife means more than just, tigers and elephants. Wildlife refers to any undomesticated animal and uncultivated plants. It is difficult to think of wildlife in an urban environment. But, we do share space with wildlife regardless of where we live. Ignorance is a major reason why people do not appreciate nature and wildlife. As the members of a natural community, our well being depends on the existence of life forms. We need a diversity of wildlife around us, because each species plays a key role. For example, life forms are responsible for creating oxygen, disposing of waste, and pollinating crops. In a world where countless life forms become extinct every year, there’s an urgent need for us to understand that everything is connected. None of the five million species on earth, including Homo sapiens, can survive without each other or without healthy habitat.
We’ve built cities and towns for people to live in. Now, it’s time that we made the cities more liveable for wildlife too.
(5 marks) 16. Translate the following advertisement.
17. Translate the following texts.
1.
Make hay while the sun shines .
(2 x 2 ½ = 5 marks)
2.
Iah; tUk; tiu mkhthir fhj;jpUf;fhJ/
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