2008-11-18 issue:
Ron Rempel responds
by Ron Rempel, executive director, Mennonite Publishing Network
I agree fully with Nestor Raul Bogoya that translation needs to take context into account. This point was also made at the Executive Board meeting. As part of that discussion there, I noted that some level of “ownership” by potential user groups in the selection and translation of resources is important. The fact that some translated materials from the past are gathering dust on the shelf makes me wonder whether the attention to context and user ownership was adequate.
I hope we can learn from those past translation projects as we apply our collective efforts to a new Spanish-language initiative.
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