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Some lexical mismatches are observable in the Arabic translation.
Those mismatches, though attributable to miscomprehension and close
fidelity to the literalness of the surface structure of the SL message,
are un-allowable in scientific translation. Fidelity to the SL text
should not be detrimental to the semantic content of the message. For
instance, "not too long ago", an adverbial of time construction very
much common in English was slightly misrepresented in Arabic. "Not too
long ago" means recently but not too recently. The time span is
relatively short. The time-relationship between the object and its
fulfillment - in this case the detection of cervical cancer in human
females and its curement - is better expressed by using "mundhu" $4.4.•
(the closest Arabic equivalent to 'since') rather than "fi" k g which
is an adverbial of place in Arabic usage. In addition, the preference
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of "mundhu" to "f 1" 03 adds a natural flavour to the Arabic
translation, thus making it acceptable to both hearers and readers of
Arabic. In the same paragraph, (2nd paragraph) and immediately
following the "not too long ago" adverbial of time, the meaning content
of the sentence has been disrupted in the Arabic translation. The
disruption is caused by the misplacement of the word "saratan" AJ
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(cancer) in the Arabic translation. The word "cancer" occurs twice in
the English SL text; first as a noun qualifier and, second, as a
qualified noun. The noun quantifier and the qualified noun are placed
in almost mid and final positions. In the Arabic version, however,
both words concurrently follow one another. The meaning is further
disrupted by placing the definite article "al" (the) before the first
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