Translation II

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 28 May 2000, Jedrzej Polak wrote:

> I know a guy who devoted 60 pages of Introduction to justify his translation
> of Derrida's "differance" (visa a vis regular French "difference") into
> Polish. That's what I call a translator's ethos.


Wouldn't it have been lucky if the Polish word used to translate
Saussure's "difference" happened to sound exactly like the
gerund form of a Polish verb meaning both to differ and to defer.

Just out of curiosity, is "difference" (or thereabouts) a
Polish word by importation?


				P.