Schleiermacher & Deutscher - Oscar

I found Schleiermacher's descriptions of his two purported methods of translation - the idea of the translator as a middleman, either pulling the reader closer to the author or placing the author closer to the reader - to be a nice encapsulation of the various concerns, obstacles, and techniques discussed in many readings beforehand. Plenty of agonizing over impossible choices, struggles over the expression of something that simply isn't possible in another language, and even fighting with the reading public over what is considered a valid or accessible translation. However, one thing I hadn't seen as much in our readings was the discussion over personal bias: "not letting himself slip, even unconsciously, into a pertinacious one-sidedness because his inclinations bid him favor one artistic element above all the others!"

Considering this with Deutscher's articles over the influence of language over our personal way of thought, it seems that it might be impossible to ever accurately convey an author's primary image without fraying edges or off-centering - Deutscher's examples of differing gendered views and perceptions of space through geographic vs. egocentric systems tell us that while speakers of these languages are not bereft of other concepts, they are predisposed to consider the world around them in those terms. Therefore, for example, when translating a Spanish text into English, the Spanish speaker would need to go against that inherent method of thought and replace all inanimate object genders with "it" - however, that removes an entire plane of how the author perceives the world, and how that perception affects the work itself. Even if all inanimate objects kept their respective gender markers, would it even be able to convey the same expression experienced by Spanish speakers to English speakers, considering how native English speakers would never have developed those tinted glasses to perceive the world through?