Martin Luther (1483-1546) wrote an open letter concerning translating the bible into German, available online through Project Gutenberg. I always thought that he would have been respectful and polite and it was a huge suprise to read the insults he throws at the “Papists”. Still, once he gets through the insults he settles into a great discussion over dynamic equivilence and translating a text for its meaning rather than literally (and losing the sense of what the original said).
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