This papers deals with the idea that translation constitutes a reality sui generis, functioning as a manifold matrix sustaining a relation whose openness cannot be mastered to form a close system. Drawing from the core intuition of romantic Kunstsprache, the argument considers the paradoxical notion of reine Sprache put forth by Walter Benjamin, suggesting that its unsolved implications break towards a critical resistance to any semantic saturation of the contact between tongues formed by diasporic process: the debt of the translator is an involvement towards a “survival” of this plural discourse.