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translation with strange effects on the target readers. Moreover, Hoffman's
orientalization of Romania is further reinforced by her incorporation of an Arabic
culture-bound term, baba ghanouj (1999, p. 251), a name totally unfamiliar to
Romanians, for a dish which is commonly referred to as aubergine/egg-plant salad.
The preservation of the term as such in the translation would have, again, a strong
defamiliarizing effect.
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