How important are memory, meaning and language to the Translator?


Like other communicators, translators need excellent memory to enable them use
the semantic knowledge, syntactic knowledge and rhetorical knowledge of two
different languages and two different cultures.
*Memory : contains ‘records’ of past experiences, has plans for action on the basis of what we know
and what we have done.
Language: much of our experience of the external world of the senses and the inner world of the mind is mediated by language.
Translators must be good at storing experiences in memory, and at
retrieving those experiences whenever needed to solve complex
translation problems.