<HTML><HTML>In a message dated 10/29/04 9:53:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time, lbo-talk-request@lbo-talk.org writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Yes, he did coin those terms, but I think they made more sense to his fellow Greeks than "the this" and "the how" do to us -- which is practically no sense at all. A cardinal principal in translation is that the translation has to make sense to the readers of the target language -- otherwise, why bother doing it? Translation does not involve replacing each word in the source text, one by one, with a word in the target language; that is an interlinear, which is meant to be a crutch for learners of the original language. Any serious translator of Aristotle has to find meaningful English expressions which, in the translator's judgment, express to English readers what Aristotle was saying to his contemporaries, or as close to that as possible. That's the skill of translation; evading that by just putting in something like "the this" is falling down on the job. </BLOCKQUOTE> As the professor who taught me Greek philosophy used to say, a good translator must not only know the language s/he is translating out of, but also the language s/he is translating into.</HTML>