Timeline for How to indicate obscurity in a translated quotation?
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| Feb 19, 2019 at 15:33 | comment | added | 10012511 | @Davidmh I am very sure of it. Firstly, it's a printed collection, so somebody else transcribed it, I only translated it. Secondly, I'm a native German speaker---the expression is suggestive but makes no proper sense because of a grammatical ambiguity that allows at least three different readings. | |
| Feb 14, 2019 at 15:10 | vote | accept | 10012511 | ||
| Feb 14, 2019 at 15:07 | vote | accept | 10012511 | ||
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| Feb 14, 2019 at 13:14 | comment | added | Davidmh | How sure are you of your transcription? Are you sure you can read the word, or could it be saying something else? | |
| Feb 14, 2019 at 9:48 | comment | added | NotThatGuy |
Are you sure it would be an improvement to include a hardly intelligible and irrelevant expression (translated or not) above simply leaving it as ...?
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| Feb 13, 2019 at 23:27 | answer | added | Acccumulation | timeline score: 12 | |
| Feb 13, 2019 at 19:11 | answer | added | Erwan | timeline score: 21 | |
| Feb 13, 2019 at 18:58 | comment | added | user8283 | Reminder: answer in answers, not in comments. | |
| Feb 13, 2019 at 18:23 | history | edited | jakebeal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 13, 2019 at 17:31 | comment | added | Bergi | Are you quoting the original wording as well? | |
| Feb 13, 2019 at 17:26 | comment | added | Alexis | @user2768 "Make a choice that you can reasonably justify and explain that choice/justificaiton to the reader." And then follow that up with a separate few pages paper, perhaps published elsewhere, on the conundrum, and several solutions you considered in the process! | |
| Feb 13, 2019 at 17:23 | comment | added | aaaaa says reinstate Monica | OP: consider accepting one of the answers posted below | |
| Feb 13, 2019 at 14:10 | answer | added | Peter Taylor | timeline score: 76 | |
| Feb 13, 2019 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1095653959912570880 | ||
| Feb 13, 2019 at 10:56 | answer | added | user2768 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 13, 2019 at 10:30 | comment | added | 10012511 | Yeah that's what I decided to do. Added the original text in a footnote and explained that it's not crucial to the point. Thanks! | |
| Feb 13, 2019 at 10:30 | comment | added | user2768 | Make a choice that you can reasonably justify and explain that choice/justificaiton to the reader. | |
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| Feb 13, 2019 at 10:25 | history | asked | 10012511 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |