Translating is a practice as well as a way of thinking which both find in the threshold a perfect symbol. The paratranslational position expresses this double postulate against the theories of translation as passage. Without any resistance, the passage between two languages amounts to a mere transcoding, a semantic transfusion from one cultural body to another, an operation that could be handled by a machine and which would hardly deserve the name of translation. Translating, in other words, begins when one touches on the untranslatable, more exactly when one remains on the threshold of the translatable. The particle of translating is not into (translated into Japanese, translated into French, translated into ...) but between, between the two languages, the two texts, the two cultures, the two historical situations. Considering the threshold as the place of translation allows such a bilateral reception. Every language being for another one a foreign language, the two languages generate a third one, new for each translation, and on the threshold of which the first two stand.