The document discusses translating a paragraph from English to Spanish about Amish communities in the United States. It provides the original English paragraph, followed by the Spanish translation. It then includes three reflection texts discussing particular translation techniques and challenges encountered, such as replacing the word "roadsign" with "traffic signal" and changing the phrasing of "two black horse-drawn buggies" for clarity. Finally, it presents a table comparing translation methods, strategies, and techniques as the mental processes and specific linguistic transfer activities involved in translation.

1. TRANSLATION TECNIQUE
TASK 3
TRANSLATE A PARAGRAF
PRESENTADO POR:
MARY YANNETH VELASCO CORDERO
CÓDIGO: 40030793
DIANA CAROLINA JAIME CORREA
CODIGO : 1057545117
ROBINSON DAMIÁN GUAYARA MORALES
GRUPO: 551037_8
TUTOR:
CARLOS ALBERTO PELAYO
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONALABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA – UNAD

2. PARAGRAPH 1
America's Amish communities live a lifestyle that has changed little since the
18th century; but in other respects, they are showing other Americans the way
forward into the twenty-first....
The roadsign is, to say the least, unexpected ; driving through a prosperous
rural part of North America, the last thing you expect to see beside the highway
is a yellow diamond roadsign with a horse and buggy in the middle! Watch out
for horses and buggies on the road? What is this? Do they exercise racehorses
here, or what?
You keep an eye open for horses; for two miles you see nothing, then all of a
sudden, look! Coming towards you on the other side of the road, two black
horse-drawn buggies! As they go by, your surprise turns to disbelief; what's
going on? Are they making a movie about eighteenth century America? The
men and the women in the buggy look like they jumped out of a novel by
Fennimore Cooper. Then, another mile and things get even stranger; beside a
neat-looking farm-house, there is a whole line of buggies. In the door of the
house, half a dozen men in black coats, and with long beards, are talking while
some women dressed in a curiously ancient fashion are sitting on a bench. Is
this 2015 or 1715 ?

3. PÁRRAFO 1

4. Las comunidades Amish de América viven un estilo de vida que ha cambiado poco
desde el siglo XVIII; Pero en otros aspectos, están mostrando a otros
estadounidenses el camino a seguir hacia el siglo XXI.
La señal de transito es, por decir lo menos, inesperado; Conduciendo a través de una
próspera parte rural de América del Norte, lo último que se espera ver al lado de la
carretera es una señal de transito un diamante amarillo con un caballo y buggy en el
medio! Cuidado con los caballos y buggies en la carretera? ¿Qué es esto? ¿ellos
ejercen carreras de caballos aquí, o qué?
Mantenga un ojo abierto para los caballos; Por dos millas no ves nada, entonces de
repente, mira! Viniendo hacia usted en el otro lado de la carretera, dos buggies
negros tirados por caballos! A medida que pasan, su sorpresa se convierte en
incredulidad; ¿qué está pasando? ¿Están haciendo una película sobre la América del
siglo XVIII? Los hombres y las mujeres en el buggy parecen saltar de una novela de
Fennimore Cooper. Luego, otra milla y las cosas se vuelven aún más extrañas; Al
lado de una casa de campo de apariencia limpia, hay toda una línea de buggies. En la
puerta de la casa, media docena de hombres de abrigos negros y barbas largas hablan
mientras algunas mujeres vestidas de una manera curiosamente antigua están
sentadas en un banco. ¿Es este 2015 o 1715?

5. PARAGRAPH 2
You drive on, wondering what has happened to this part of the United States of
America?. Have you driven into a time-warp, and without realizing it, gone back
300 years, or is it the people you've just seen who're stuck in a time warp?
A quick enquiry at the nearest gas station gives you the answer; you are in Amish
country, and the men and women you have just seen are Amish, part of a strange
religious group that settled in America in the 18th century, and much of whose
lifestyle has changed little since then.
If you had seen the movie "Witness", you would have already known something
about the Amish, how their community is strictly religious and self-contained, how
Amish people do without the essentials of modern-day life such as electricity and
cars, and how they do not mix with people outside of their own community. It is
virtually unheard of for anyone to become an Amish, who was not born an Amish.
This is about all that most Americans know about Amish people, unless, that is, they
actually live near them and come across them in daily life. So who are they?

6. PÁRRAFO 2

7. Conduces, y te preguntas qué ha sucedido a esta parte de los Estados Unidos de
América. Has conducido en un túnel del tiempo y sin darse cuenta, retrocedieron
300 años o es la gente que acabas de ver, quienes están atrapados en el túnel del
tiempo?
Una rápida investigación en la estación de gasolina más cercana te da la respuesta;
estas en una ciudad Amish y los hombres y mujeres que tú has visto son Amish, son
parte de un grupo religioso extraño que se estableció en América en el siglo 18 y
gran parte de su estilo de vida, ha cambiado poco desde entonces.
Si ustedes han visto la película “Testigos” ustedes podrían haber sabido algo acerca
de los Amish, cómo su comunidad es estrictamente religiosa y autónoma, como la
gente de Amish hace lo esencial sin la vida moderna, como los carros y la
electricidad y como ellos no se mesclan con personas de su misma comunidad. Esto
es prácticamente inaudito para cualquiera convertirse en un Amish, que no nació
como un Amish.
Esto es todo lo que la mayoría de estadounidenses saben acerca de la población
Amish, a menos es decir que se viva cerca de ellos, y se crucen con ellos en la vida
cotidiana. Entonces, quienes son ellos?

8. PARAGRAPH 3
In brief, the Amish are members of an ultra-protestant religious movement
that first came to America from the upper Rhine valley over three hundred
years ago, and have kept their traditions and lifestyles. They are very law-
abiding citizens, and their community is one in which crime is almost,
though not entirely, inexistent; Amish families live strict lives, following the
same code of morals as their ancestors. In a sense, they are indeed stuck in a
time warp.
Yet the most remarkable things to note about the Amish are not their quaint
lifestyles and their home-made clothes, but the expansion of their
community, its efficiency, its social cohesion, and their recent adoption of
"green" technology, including wind-power and solar energy. Although they
work the land using traditional horse-drawn machines, and use no chemical
fertilizers, their agriculture is - interestingly - among the most productive in
North America!

9. PÁRRAFO 3

10. En breve, los Amish son miembros de un movimiento religioso protestante ultra
que primero vino a América desde el valle del Rin hace más de trescientos años y
han mantenido sus tradiciones y estilos de vida. Son ciudadanos muy respetuosos
de la ley, y su comunidad es una en que delito es casi, aunque no totalmente
inexistente; Las familias Amish viven estricta, siguiendo el mismo código de las
costumbres que sus antepasados. En un sentido, de hecho están atrapados en el
tiempo.
Sin embargo, lo más notable a destacar en los Amish no son sus estilos de vidas
pintorescas y su ropa hecha en casa, pero la expansión de su comunidad, su
eficiencia, su cohesión social y su reciente adopción de la tecnología "verde",
incluyendo energía eólica y energía solar. Aunque trabajan la tierra con las
máquinas tradicionales de caballos y no usar fertilizantes químicos, la agricultura
es - curiosamente - entre las más productivas en América del norte.

11. REFLECTION TEXT 1
To translate the text one that speaks of the traditions and customs that
have the Amish communities present some disadvantages mainly in:
The word roadsign uses the method of adaptation because I replaced a
cultural element of the original text with another that is better suited to
the culture of the language for its understanding in this case by traffic
signal.
In The buggy I used the loan method because it uses a word or an
expression of the original text leaving it the same.
In the phrase two black horse-drawn buggies translated using the
literal translation gives me meaning dos caballos negros dibujados
buggies to see that the phrase did not have concordance with the text in
general I decided to use the method of modulation to give sense to the
phrase being left dos buggies negros tirados por caballos.

12. REFLECTION TEXT 2
You drive on, wondering when has happened to this part of the United States of
America? Have you driven into a time-warp, and without realizing it, gone
back 300 years, or is it the people you’ ve just seen who're stuck in a time
warp?
I found the following situations:
1. You drive on, wondering what has happenedto this part of the United States
of America?
Literal Traslation meaning “Usted conduce en, preguntándose que ha sucedido
a esta parte de los Estados Unidos de América”
I am use the Modulation technique, changing the semantics of the sentence,
searching the sentence that sounds better.
So:”You drive on, wondering what has happenedto this part of the United
States of America?”
Conduces y te preguntas que ha sucedido en esta parte de los estados Unidos de
America?
2. I founda Word that is written similar to Spanish, but they not mean the
same. Like:
Realizing, what in English means “Dándose cuenta” and Spanish it seemed
like meaning “Realizando”

13. REFLECTION TEXT 3
At first the phrase "In brief", to start a paragraph was complicated to
translate it with my knowledge since it is not usual to hear it and resort to
the dictionary. There are also a large number of linguistic connectors that
serve to construct more interesting texts.

14. METHOD STRATEGY TECHNIQUES
Refers to this set of
strategies and techniques
that are used to achieve
an adequate translation.
It has a supraindividual
and conscious character
and responds to a global
option that runs
throughout the text.
Are the set of mental
procedures involved
during the translation
task and consists of the
mechanisms used by the
translator to solve the
problems encountered in
the development of the
process.
Is the totality of
processes and specific
activities of linguistic
transfer that participate
in the act of translation
CUADRO 1

15. METHOD STRATEGY TECHNIQUE
They are the tools that
are use to perform a
coherent and ordered
translation, such as the
use of the dictionary
They are the options that
make translation posible,
deciding among several
to find the most
appropriate
They are the standard or
ruleswith wich you
guide, to develop a
similarity in the
translation
CUADRO 2

16. METHOD STRATEGY TECHNIQUE
Orderly and systematic
way of proceeding to
arrive at a certain result
or purpose
A series of very
thoughtful actions,
directed towards a
determined purpose
Skill and ability of a
person in an art, sport or
activity that requires
using these procedures
or resources, which are
developed by learning
and experience
CUADRO 3

17. FEEDBACK
In the work that you did, you can appreciate that you have a high level and a great
handling of the language, because the text of the translation is very clear and the
words and phrases are coherent, on the other hand the explanation you give in
terms of the Problems that you presented is precise because you highlight what are
the methods used to solve your concerns as well as also makes clear the great
domain that you have in regards to this topic.
Diana Jaime.
First of all I want to congratulate you for your work, because in the it can be
appreciated that you handle a great amount of vocabulary which I facilitate the
translation of the text, because only presenters a small inconvenience during
your work, on the other hand the concepts that you emitted on Strategy,
technique and method, are very clear, which gives easy to understand what is
its objective.
Diana Jaime

18. FEEDBACK 2
Hi Diana
Diana I congratulate you, on your translation, because the idea is to learn and
what you have developed shows the interest and clear concepts of translation
techniques.
I note that in most of the translations you use the literal translation, translating
word for word, focuses on the language and form of the original text, translates
without taking into account the intention of the author, modifies as little as
possible the language of the original.
I think that the tecniques you used: Adaptation, Modulation and Borrowing, are
appropriate for these sentences
Thanks
Yanneth Velasco