Translating Napoleon’s proclamation into Creole necessarily altered its meaning

Evidence

Before he left France, Leclerc had been encouraged to translate these proclamations into Creole so that they would be understood by the masses in the colony. He did so at some point on the Atlantic crossing, presumably using the expertise of one of the many former residents of Saint-Domingue who accompanied him. Like any process of translation, this one transformed the document in interesting ways. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 929

Categorization

• QUESTION: The paragraph trails off into the specific transformations; worth chasing how the Creole version changed the French promises and threats.
• XREF: connects to: Classical translations routinely distort meaning through culturally specific terms — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1600; Translators deformed the same text for opposite ideological purposes
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Classical translations routinely distort meaning through culturally specific terms — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1600; Translators deformed the same text for opposite ideological purposes