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trans·late (trns-lt, trnz-, trnslt, trnz-)
v.
1. To render in another language.
2. To put into simpler terms; explain or interpret.
3. To subject mRNA to translation.

trans·lata·bili·ty n.
trans·lata·ble adj.


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The first problem is presented by the case of literary expression--writing or orature--in which the experience relayed through language is integrally defined and captured by irreducibly localised expression, sui generis, giving it an ultra-thin translatability yield.
Among Michaels's contributions was an edgy discussion of "questions of the collective ownership and tribally restricted access to iconographically transmitted knowledge, of the imbrication of surface, medium, and ground in Walpiri art," as the Aboriginal group with which he was most directly concerned, and "of the transferability or otherwise of site-specific sacred paintings to portable formats and of their translatability into the elaborated codes of modernist abstraction.
 
 
 
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