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But something had gotten lost in translation.
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Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Found in translation In a way, human language acts as a compression and decompression scheme—the listener must decompress the meaning of words in the same way the speaker intended when encoding the message for them to be properly understood.
—ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2025
But perhaps the key to not losing much in translation is not having much to lose in the first place.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
Director Kogonada, who previously guided Farrell in After Yang, is going for alternate melancholy and whimsy, an uneven blend of introspective drama and high-concept fantasy that feels a bit lost in translation and doesn’t quite work the way it was intended.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025
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Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Found in translation In a way, human language acts as a compression and decompression scheme—the listener must decompress the meaning of words in the same way the speaker intended when encoding the message for them to be properly understood.
—ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2025
But perhaps the key to not losing much in translation is not having much to lose in the first place.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
Director Kogonada, who previously guided Farrell in After Yang, is going for alternate melancholy and whimsy, an uneven blend of introspective drama and high-concept fantasy that feels a bit lost in translation and doesn’t quite work the way it was intended.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025
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“In translation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20translation. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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