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My grad students this term, in their assigned readings, have encountered, in otherwise fantastic sources,\u00a0such as this: Baptism is to be in \u2018\u03cd\u03b4\u03c9\u03c1 \u03b6\u03c9\u03bd. Several documents \u201care classified with the vague <em>Sammelbegriff<\/em> \u2018Gallican missals\u2019.\u201d The Bobbio Missal has a rite \u201c<em>ad christianum faciendum<\/em>.\u201d A canon from a council \u201c\u2026signifie donc que l\u2019intervention personelle de l\u2019\u00e9v\u00eaque est limit\u00e9\u2026\u201d These all are from recently published sources \u2013 more precisely, from a book and a liturgy journal of a certain liturgical publishing house at a certain Benedictine establishment in a certain Midwestern state. (Their practice is similar to everyone else on this point.) Just like that, with no English translation.<\/p>\n<p>No problem, right? Just draw on your knowledge of Greek, German, Latin, and French, and you\u2019re set. We all attended either a classical European gymnasium or a minor seminary before Vatican II, right? Not.<\/p>\n<p>The time has long since come for publishers and editors to provide translations for all foreign terms in English theological writing. Such writing is meant not only for theo profs, but also for students at various points in their studies, clergy, pastoral ministers, and other interested folks. Some of them know some languages, but they don\u2019t all know all the languages frequently quoted. Why make things less accessible? Why discourage or irritate people needlessly?<\/p>\n<p>I hear the accusations already. I\u2019m pandering and watering down. My proposal is horribly American. (Whaddaya call someone who knows three languages? Trilingual. Two languages? Bilingual. One language? American.) We should be encouraging everyone to aim higher, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>I think not. My students will testify (or complain) that I do everything I can to stress the importance of original languages. I write foreign things on the board all the time. I require grad students in their first semester to learn a whole list of Latin and Greek terms. In grad liturgy classes, though I translate as we walk through a preconciliar liturgical book, I give my students an untranslated handout just to make the point that they really should learn Latin. My pedagogical practice is intended both to emphasize the importance of source languages and to make the course content accessible to those who don\u2019t know a given language.<\/p>\n<p>Why, pray tell, couldn\u2019t editors and publishers do the same? We don\u2019t need everything translated so that the whole page is English. Terms like <em>ex opere operato<\/em> and <em>Heilsgeschichte<\/em> are fair game. Keep the original but give a translation, at least the first time around. It would easily be possible to distinguish the original author\u2019s footnotes from those of the editor providing translations. Or foreign terms could be translated within the text in brackets, perhaps with the annotation \u201c\u2013<em> Ed.<\/em>\u201d Either way, the reader would get the sense of the reading while being notified that there is another language worth learning. We\u2019d all get along better.<\/p>\n<p>Quid putas?<\/p>\n<p>awr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My students have had to read the following: Baptism is to be in \u2018\u03cd\u03b4\u03c9\u03c1 \u03b6\u03c9\u03bd. 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