Watch this for a good explanation why.https://youtu.be/GAgp7nXdkLU
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If you really think translation is just turning meaning from one language into another, you should try actually doing it some time. It's not that easy. People who have never translated anything serious often have no idea about just how hard it is.
Translating means understanding jokes and coming up with new ones in the target language. Translating means keeping in your head the full context of whatever you're translating and reasoning about it. Translating means knowing what is going to happen in the story in the *future*.
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Have you ever read a professionally translated book? Ever encounter a pun? Do you think that came straight from the exact same pun in the original book? It didn't. The translator put that in, either as a replacement for a different pun that is untranslatable, or to fit the mood.
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What about stories where there is a subtle linguistic device that foreshadows future events, that you may or may not notice until you get there? What about gender, which is treated vastly differently in different languages? What about Yoda?
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