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MANGALORE: Quality of a translation depends on quality of the translator, whose knowledge about source and target languages greatly influences the work, said Fr Denzil Lobo, Rector of St Aloysius Institutions.

 Presiding over the inaugural function of seminar on ’Translation: A Transcreation’ organized by PG department of English of St Aloysius College on Monday, Fr Lobo said a translation not only should be beautiful but also faithful to the original text.

Laying emphasis on significance of translating feelings of original author, he said that even advanced computer technology can not do justice to translation. "Human intervention is must to translate feelings from one language to the other," he said adding that translation is a great art which requires creativity.

V Sangeetha, associate professor and head in charge, department of English, Periyar University, Salem delivered a lecture on Translation: A Global Perspective. K S Bhagavan, retired professor in English, Mysore University who has translated maximum number of plays of Shakespeare into Kannada dwelt on ’Problems in Transcreating Shakespeare.’

Rev Fr Swebert D’Silva, principal of the College and A Lourdusamy, chairman of the department spoke. Melisa M Goveas, assistant professor, proposed vote of thanks. Rashmi S Gowda and Aravind Kispota, students of MA English compered the programme. Around 100 delegates from various colleges of coastal Karnataka besides Kerala, TN, AP, Goa and West Bengal including students, research scholars and academicians took part in the seminar.

Endowment lecture

The inaugural session was followed by the second annual endowment lecture in memory of Late S C Frank. Dwelling on ’Challenges of English Language Learning and Teaching in New Millennium’, K S Antonysamy, associate professor, department of English, Loyola College, said that there is a need to change theoretical module of English language in classrooms. There should be celebration atmosphere in classrooms, he said adding teachers must give importance to ’train’ the students rather than spending time on mere ’teaching’.

Dubbing the new generation of students as ’self-learning millennials’ who do not bother about the perfection in language, he said it is a major challenge for their teachers to train the students who are adept with computers and well-versed in immediate communication thanks to the modern technology.