... trovert the meaning intended by the original. For the purposes of this experiment, the question of the fidelity of a translation was converted into the complementary question of whether the original ... machine; of these transla- tions, only six were complete, however, and for the purposes of the present study comparisons were made only for passages selected from these. With the assist- ance of ... sentences), the sentences being inter- spersed among sentences from a varied collection of good, mediocre, and bad translations, then the standard error of the mean of all the ratings on the scale of...