I work quite a bit in translation (for extra income) and, as bad luck might have it, I’m never asked to translate things I agree with. Today, for instance, I spent all day working on an urgent order that, intellectually and ideologically, offends every fiber of my being. (It’s about Ukraine, in case you are wondering.)
The central guiding principle of a translator’s work is that you can never bring yourself to the translation (and good teaching requires the same effort). I have a lot of self, and this is not an easy thing to do.
OK, back to my translation order.
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