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ID: LSAT-LR-102
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Principle
Difficulty level: Hard

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Translator: My publisher wanted the novel's dialect passages put into a regional English dialect, to convey the social distance the original marks. I refused. Any English dialect carries to English readers a history the original's speakers never had, an effect I would be manufacturing rather than carrying across. The passages will go into plain English.

Which one of the following principles most helps to justify the translator's decision?

AA translation should convey every relation between speakers the original conveys, and a translator who declines the means of doing so has not finished the work.

BA translator need not preserve an ornament of the original wherever it would slow an ordinary reader down.

CA translator working for a publisher should follow the publisher's instructions on questions of style, reserving her own judgement for questions of meaning.

DA translator should not convey a relation between an original's speakers by means that would attach to them a history they never had; where the only available means would, another must be found.

EA translator need not reproduce an effect the original plainly has, where reproducing it would attach to the text associations the original does not carry.

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