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First, he mistranslates Nostra aetate by adding "the" before the Council's "Jewish authorities. Furthermore, in his brief discussion of Buddhism's role, the author mistranslates the popular expression "an may cua Phat," rendering it as "to eat of the Buddha's good fortune" (p. The acute failure of Lena and Ying-ying to communicate is effectively suggested by the way Tan shows the family interacting via mistranslations: interpreting for Lena what his wife says, the father makes things up; when Lena translates from Chinese into English for her father's benefit, she offers false translations; and when she brings home official communications from school, Lena intentionally mistranslates them for her mother. |
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