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文章来源: techtest 于 2004-05-07 10:17:05
"are these differences we feel in thinking and writing process cause by linguistic elements only? or it has something to do with many other things like YingYun pointed out."
"in writing, one has a voice that has something to do with both vocabulary and one's style, passion, sentiment, etc.. ---- sheng yin, in Chinese."
This is a big topic, I only can offer what I am thinking at this moment. In my opinion, the individual voice changed when using different languiges first caused by the degree of his/her mastery of the languige. If you are the beginner of English, "hello, how are you, thanks" not make too much sence to change one's voice. If I said to 影云: "丫头又没法忍 了?", what I can say in English? Probabaly: " O, you like it, don't you!". Do you think this is the change of voice?
However, the cultural elements could come to play now. If someone go dinner with the family, he say "thank you" to his mon when she pass a fork to him, it should be very normal in USA, but China, 古板语录："倘若我妈递给我一块烧饼我说“谢谢”，烧饼立马收回，巴掌旋即过来。" this is change of voice to my understanding.
linguistic elements plays an important role too. Take your new work and 影云's translation for example:
Tonight
今夜
when the evening bell echoes
晚鐘迴旋
my heart does not want
我的心不再
to run away.
逃亡
first two lines are prety good(specially the second one, 非常传神）。But the last one I feel somehow change voice of originals.
Too much junks already. Just some of my notes.
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