Acceptable Translation of “Passion” Category

Data Code TT Avr. Score 17TTP 154 Dia menyusurkan satu jari di rahangku, dan aku merasakan kulitku menggelenyar terkena sentuhannya. 2,2 The translation datum above considered quite acceptable by all of the respondents. Most of them does not know what „menggelenyar‟ means. Most of them thinks that the word „menggelenyar‟ is not familiar in the TT. Even though most of the respondents consider this translation is quite acceptable and unacceptable, there are still 2 respondents who give 1 for the score. Both of the respondents think that this translation is still understandable and they can still grasp the message even though they do not know what „menggelenyar‟ means. Perhaps, the TT readers will be more easier to catch the meaning by changing the word “menggelenyar” into “merinding”. The translator is not succeed in delivering the message of this sentence, because the readers have to guess and they even confused about the meaning of the word “menggelenyar”. In order to summarize the average score of acceptability based on each datum and respondent, below are the two chart of the distributon of the acce ptability of romantic elements translation in Nicholas Sparks‟ Dear John. Chart 4.1 The Distribution of Acceptability Average Score Based on Data The chart of the acceptability average score based on data above explains that from the 18 sample data,17 of the data are scored 1, which means that there are 3 data have average score 1. Then, the second is the average score 1.1. There are 4 data which have score 1.1 and it means 22 of the data assessed 1.1 by the respondents. There are 17 data or 3 data have average score 1.2. Then the next is the average score 1.3 which has 2 data or there are 11 of the data have score 1.3. There is only one datum getting score 1.4, which means there are only 5 of the data have the score 1.4. There are 17 data with the average score 1.6, or in other words, there are 3 data have score 1.6. There is one datum gets score 2, it means there only 5 of the data get score 2. The last, there are 6 of the data have score 2.2, there is only one datum with the score 2.2. 17 22 17 11 5 17 5 6 Data with Average Score 1 Data with Average Score 1.1 Data with Average Score 1.2 Data with Avergae Score 1.3 Datum with Average Score 1.4 Data with Average Score 1.6 Datum with Average Score 2 Datum with Average Score 2.2