Even approaches that permit narration by meaning cannot detach it from the transmitter's competence. Knowing a word's approximate dictionary meaning is not enough: conditional particles, negation, restriction, generality, specification, and sentence structure often carry decisive meaning.
Conceptual illustration: “If it rains, the caravan will stop” becomes a different statement if rendered “It rained, so the caravan stopped.” The first is conditional, the second reports an event. The vocabulary overlaps, but the logical force changes.
Where a term has a technical legal sense narrower than its everyday meaning, dictionary substitution alone is unreliable. Faithful transmission requires sensitivity to language, style, and the intended legal or scholarly significance.