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Re: [xmca] Scripta Technica, Inc.

I have no idea, Peter. That is the translation I have.
Perhaps Rene knows who they are/were.
mike

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:

> I've begun reading Vygotsky's Psychology of Art and found that the
> translation was done by Scripta Technica, Inc. I wondered who this might be
> and found that this company did a lot of translation in many fields across
> many languages of scholarship and science in the sixties and seventies, and
> apparently into the nineties. But I can't find much about the company
> itself; rather, I find many publications for which they are credited as
> translators.
>
>
>
> Does anyone know anything about them? And why the company and not the
> individual translators is given the credit? It's clear that one translator
> does not make the same decisions as another, so the specific translator
> does
> seem to matter. Or were the texts translated in teams, or did different
> people do different sections of the same text (which would seem to produce
> a
> chaotic version)? Thanks,Peter
>
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