The claim
U6: “do you think it’s fair to summarize one of our observations here as ‘the main thing that fundamentally distinguishes variations of a translation is the frame from which it is being delivered’?”
What happened to it
- A11 agreed, recast it as the interpretive frame (TERM-005), and qualified it: “I wouldn’t say that framing is the only fundamental distinction. Two translators can adopt essentially the same interpretive frame yet produce substantially different translations because of differences in linguistic skill, aesthetic judgment, rhythmic intuitions, or the constraints they’re trying to satisfy.” The owner never answered this.
- U7 restored delivery; A12: “What most fundamentally distinguishes translations is the frame from which the original is reinterpreted and delivered” (TERM-035).
- A14, in speech-act terms: “Perhaps the most fundamental differences between translations are pragmatic rather than semantic: they arise from the communicative footing, speaker stance, and illocutionary force through which substantially similar propositional content is delivered.” “The main thing” had become “perhaps”.
- A18 objected that some differences are not of frame at all (CLAIM-004).
The manuscript keeps the contrast and drops the ranking: CLAIM-061.