Dialectal and/or Archaic Words in the Translation of Poetry

In this study, we aim to explore different translation methods in the field of poetry translation. We focus on specific linguistic units of the Csángó dialect as they appear in the poetry of a Csángó poet, Demeter Lakatos. We will present some aspects of a translation project we are currently working on, investigating the extent to which dialectal elements and old forms of words can be rendered in the process of translating Hungarian poems into Romanian and English with the help of free online translation tools. We wish to find out whether these tools manage to perform an acceptable and adequate rewording of poetry texts both in point of content and cultural implications, whether they succeed in reaching semantic and functional-pragmatic equivalence.