Changed translation: negation and everyone

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Changed translation: negation and everyone

Question: replace no exigen que todos hayan estudiado literatura with exigen que todos hayan estudiado literatura. A learner still writes 'they do not require everyone to have studied literature'. Is that a minor stylistic difference?

Answer: no. Removing no changes the policy expressed by the fictional source. The new sentence requires prior literary study from everyone; the proposed translation says that requirement does not apply to everyone. A correct model is they require everyone to have studied literature. Require all applicants to have studied literature could be defensible if applicants accurately describes the volunteers in context, but adding applicants is unnecessary. The answer must preserve both the universal todos and the affirmative exigen. Recognising the subjunctive haya(n) without checking negation would produce fluent English with the opposite practical meaning.

Worked example: replace no exigen que todos hayan estudiado literatura with exigen que todos hayan estudiado literatura. A learner still writes 'they do not require everyone to have studied literature'. Is that a minor stylistic difference?

Removing no changes the policy expressed by the fictional source.

The new sentence requires prior literary study from everyone; the proposed translation says that requirement does not apply to everyone.

A correct model is they require everyone to have studied literature.

Answer: no. Removing no changes the policy expressed by the fictional source. The new sentence requires prior literary study from everyone; the proposed translation says that requirement does not apply to everyone. A correct model is they require everyone to have studied literature. Require all applicants to have studied literature could be defensible if applicants accurately describes the volunteers in context, but adding applicants is unnecessary. The answer must preserve both the universal todos and the affirmative exigen. Recognising the subjunctive haya(n) without checking negation would produce fluent English with the opposite practical meaning.

Check your understanding: Does recognising the subjunctive preserve meaning if the translated statement retains the removed no?

Answer: no. Removing no changes the policy expressed by the fictional source. The new sentence requires prior literary study from everyone; the proposed translation says that requirement does not apply to everyone. A correct model is they require everyone to have studied literature. Require all applicants to have studied literature could be defensible if applicants accurately describes the volunteers in context, but adding applicants is unnecessary. The answer must preserve both the universal todos and the affirmative exigen. Recognising the subjunctive haya(n) without checking negation would produce fluent English with the opposite practical meaning.

Why: The new sentence requires prior literary study from everyone; the proposed translation says that requirement does not apply to everyone.