Preferred Judging Function

Famous quotes containing the words preferred, judging and/or function:

    You preferred it to the usual thing:
    One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
    One average mind—with one thought less, each year.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    But judging by what little of it stands,
    Not even the ingenuities of debt
    Could save it from its losses being met.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information—hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.
    Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)