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1. Venuti argued that domesticating translations erase the foreignness of a source text, flattering the receiving culture's sense that its own language is a neutral norm.
2. A foreignising translation deliberately retains awkward traces of the source language to signal that the text originated elsewhere.
3. Many bestselling translated novels top sales charts precisely because their prose reads fluently in the target language.
4. Benjamin, by contrast, located fidelity in a text's underlying intention rather than in its surface texture.
5. These competing theories disagree sharply on what, exactly, a faithful translation is required to preserve.
2. A foreignising translation deliberately retains awkward traces of the source language to signal that the text originated elsewhere.
3. Many bestselling translated novels top sales charts precisely because their prose reads fluently in the target language.
4. Benjamin, by contrast, located fidelity in a text's underlying intention rather than in its surface texture.
5. These competing theories disagree sharply on what, exactly, a faithful translation is required to preserve.
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Answer: 3
Sentences 1, 2, 4 and 5 all discuss competing theoretical accounts of translational fidelity (Venuti's domestication/foreignisation and Benjamin's intention-based view) and their disagreement. Sentence 3, a claim about commercial sales performance of fluent translated novels, introduces market success rather than theories of fidelity, breaking the passage's throughline and making it the odd one out.
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