Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-34115-20180618163709/@comment-3279282-20180623165234

That's what I thought as well, but I can only think of the famous example "He was born in 1944" => "1944 was when he was born". Some sentences, especially those that only state facts and explanations, simply can't be rewritten in a way that doesn't resemble the original. Plus, wouldn't a translation fall unter the "something new from scratch"? After all, we don't write the Japanese text into the articles. Also, where's the line between "plain translation" and "same meaning, different text"? As long as the meaning stays the same, it won't be a different text, ever. Otherwise, the translation would be wrong. It's kinda hard to convey what I mean, sorry. What I'm saying is, you can't have a different text without changing the meaning, because all different versions are viable translations and the moment you change the meaning, it's not a correct translation any more.