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The two re-translations, put
together, would ensure that the obligatory meaning is preserved; the
logical sequence, maintained; the conceptual connectivity,
uninterrupted; and the naturalness of style, sustained. The activation
of the translation text-grammar to bring into full prominence the
semanzic content of the SL message is a genuine mark of translation
competence and efficiency.
In the topical sentence which introduces the second portion of the
SL text, "well-established" is misrepresented in the Arabic
translation. In an attempt to find a lexical equivalent in Arabic to
the compound adjective in the source language, Dr Lutfi uses a multi-
word adjective which does not possess the semantic load of the
original. "Well-established" is translated as "wati da wa tha bitat
al-faaliyya", meaning in Arabic "firmly grounded and invariably
effective". He is, more or less, like a GP who prescribes a lot of
medicines for a patient in the hope that at least one will prove
curative. A well established method of treatment means a method about
which there is a consensus of medical opinion. Therefore, "well-
established methods of treatment" is better translated as "turuq al-
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ila j al-muta4 h a_raf alaiha" filei1/0,1) Three lines later, Dr
Lutfi describes surgery as the method of choice for treating many
tumours. His rendering of "of choice" as "al-mukhta r" ..,t11 1 is not a
fortunate one. A better lexical match would be "al-mufaddal",
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meaning 'choicest' or 'much-preferred'. This miscomprehension and,
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