What Did Anthropologist Laura Bohannan Discover in Her Attempt to Translate

question 4

Multiple Choice

What did anthropologist Laura Bohannan discover in her attempt to translate a classic text from English literature into Tiv?

• A) There is an underlying universal appreciation of grammar that all humans share.
• B) It is important to translate stories across different languages once you are fluent so that they can be shared.
• C) An accurate translation of Shakespeare is best accomplished through sign language.
• D) The meaning of the story became lost, as the original meanings of the English words could not be easily translated.

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