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Pace: No translation can ever capture the music of the original poem. Moving verse from one language into another always sacrifices something essential in its sound. Quinn: On the contrary, some translations improve on the original's music. A sufficiently gifted translator can find effects in the receiving language that surpass anything.
If Pace and Quinn's statements are both accurately reported, which one of the following must be true?
- Quinn believes every translation improves on its original.
- They use different standards for judging the musical quality of every original poem, including rhythm, meter, and the use of repeated sound patterns.
- Pace denies that sound contributes to a poem's identity.
- At least one of them is mistaken about whether any translation can equal or surpass its original's music.
- Both agree that a gifted translator always preserves every sound effect.
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