Immanuel Kant Language Analysis

When any literary artifact is translated from one language to another, the artifact itself is changed. The myriad of nuanced and connotative meanings that can be employed by a speaker of any language are often impossible to translate literally into another language. Any translator is forced into recognizing this dichotomy. They must separate what the author is saying apart from the ideas his words stand to represent. In rewriting a story in another language, the translator, in order to preserve the integrity of the work, must alter the words of the author in their totality while preserving the ideas those words meant to convey. Unfortunately for any translator, this is an insurmountable problem of language. For example, many languages have words without accurate translations into other languages yet alone close ones. Other languages lack corresponding grammatical conventions that are not ubiquities to all languages. It would them seem questionable just how accurate any translation can be an accurate portrayal of the artifact in …show more content…
In this caustic wake, certain key point were altered and juxtaposed in ways not ever foreseen by the author — new connections, deductions, and synthetic a priori claims are thereby created. From these alterations, which exist as result of a length restriction, of Kant’s original ideas are simplified, emphasized more or less than originally intended, expanded upon, or left out entirely. To look at one as an original and the translation as an outright bastardization of the original is absurd when one is aware of the equitable creation at the expense of necessary destruction in any process of