One of the areas where literal and
overliteral translation can be employed is explicit contrasting of MT and FL systems, making students aware of differences and-less often-similarities between the two systems.
Some commentators gloss over embarrassing difficulties and
overliteral readings; others welcome the opportunity to rebut them from within the fold, though as Parker points out, this needs to be done well.
Pic boasts a radiantly natural perf by Ana Claudia Talancon ("The Crime of Father Amaro") but is leadenly scripted and blandly
overliteral and therefore never capitalizes on the provocativeness of its premise.
This whole scenario sounds quite bizarre, if not grotesque, to us today but it is important not to remain at an
overliteral reading.
Overliteral reading of a corrupt source has led to unnecessary text omission in Gaude virgo.
This, however, is a structure unperceived by Okonkwo and is indeed alien to his rigid,
overliteral conceptions of the "masculine" ideals.
Anderson, in a letter of 22 December 1991, proposes that the 'thistles' in the Greek text are 'an
overliteral adjustment to Genesis 3.
All these pieces are shadowed with a fainter-than-faint comedy and a subtle skepticism: A fractionally
overliteral attitude to both scientific rules and aesthetic formulas gives rise to absurdity and uncertainly.
Saturn's
overliteral interpretation depends on substituting the rules of logical implication for those of ordinary conversational implicature, the basic strategy employed by devils, genii, and other mischievous or malevolent beings in tales about hasty wishes.
The same juxtaposition of
overliteral figure and blurry abstract background appears in the photographs of Tokuyo Yamada.