in this research, different english translations of sa‘di’s bustan were studied. an anecdote was selected randomly with its three english translations to identify whether or not the translators have managed to convey the messages of the original poem. the three selected translations were examined according to two of the criteria that larson (1984) has proposed (accuracy and naturalness) for tes...

William Shakespeare is one of the world’s greatest writers. His plays have been translated into every major living language. In some languages, his plays have been re-translated many times. These translations and re-translations have evolved for about 250 years. Studying variations in translations of world cultural heritage texts is of cross-cultural interest for arts and humanities researchers...

This paper discusses the results of an experiment designed to test the quality of translations, in which human subjects were presented with IBM-produced machine translations of several passages taken from the Russian electrical engineering journal Elektrosviaz, and with human translations of some other passages taken from Telecommunications, the English translation of Elektrosviaz. The subjects...