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translation. In like manner, the reader's linguistic and literary
competence, his cultural background, and his intellectual make-up will
undoubtedly affect his comprehension and, consequently reaction to the
text in question. But this should not entitle the reader, whatever
reading strategy he may implement, to drastically alter, modify, or
change the semantic entity of the original text. In his unbridled
intellectual and analytical exploits, the reader should not lose sight
of the meaning content of the source text. He may, however, modify the
form to fulfil the linguistic and stylistic requirements of the target
language. But technically speaking, the meaning of the source should
remain intact.
The range of human knowledge is immeasurably limitless. Equally
infinite is the range of human experience. Drawing upon Coropora of
data available in the cosmos, man's inquisitive mind thought out
speculations and suppositions, worked out theorems and tested theories
before scoring gigantic achievements on scientific and non-scientific
levels. In this age-old process, old concepts died and new ones were
born. But do concepts actually die? No; they are modified,
reformulated, and re-orientated to cope with the changing
circumstances. Concepts, unlike objects, are universal. They need to
be universalised through cross-cultural communication. Communication
of what?, one may ask. The answer could not be otherwise so explicit;
Communication of meanings extracted from available cosmic data.
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