YouSaid · the spoken record

Daniel Hahn

lines on the record: 52
first: 2026-04-11
most recent: 2026-04-11
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

“I think that it assumes that Because translation is always going to be individual, and it's always going to be partial, and it's always going to be a matter of making choices, going for this word rather than that word, then it's not worth doing. And I think you can make that argument, but if you make that argument, you have to make the argument that we don't perform him either. Because every performance is also going to be Choosing this way of doing it rather than that way of doing it. And one of the things that's amazing about, I think the conversations I had with those translators, you mentioned all those languages, I got to talk to amazing translators. Is the ways in which they”
2026-04-11 · Intelligence Squared · How Has Translation Transformed Shakespeare? With Daniel Hahn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Thank you. That's a lovely big question to start with. I think of translation as an interpretative act in some ways. If I translate something and you translate something, we will produce different translations because we are different readers, because we use languages in different ways. We have words we like that are different. And the translations that we do are also limited by the possibilities of the languages we translate into. There are things that English is really good at and those things Bangla might be really bad at, but there are also things that Bangla is really good at and English finds really difficult. So it's about taking opportunities. And one of the things that I think is interesting about that thing you quoted from that friend of mine who said, well, you know, he can't be translated, isn't that the point?”
2026-04-11 · Intelligence Squared · How Has Translation Transformed Shakespeare? With Daniel Hahn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT