Translation favorites (Aug 13-19)
Weekly series of posts based on our favorite tweeted content over the past week. Topics: translation, languages, freelancing, writing, social media and business.
DetailsWeekly series of posts based on our favorite tweeted content over the past week. Topics: translation, languages, freelancing, writing, social media and business.
DetailsIt is a well-known fact that a translation is no substitute for the original. It is also perfectly obvious that this is wrong.
This is how David Bellos begins chapter four of Is That a Fish in Your Ear? a sprightly, yet insightful book that covers everything from debunking the Great Eskimo vocabulary hoax to the myth of literal translation, all while intermingling jokes about Stalin’s bodyguard and the hollow applause of a century of critics who “praise a translation to the skies” when it sounds like it has been written in English.
Weekly series of posts based on our favorite tweeted content over the past week. Topics: translation, languages, freelancing, writing, social media and business.
DetailsIn parts two and three, we saw how younger native speakers of German don’t seem to have as much respect for their language given the contemporary influences of English, whereas the French remain relatively proud of their tongue. What about Spanish?
DetailsWeekly series of posts based on our favorite tweeted content over the past week. Topics: translation, languages, freelancing, writing, social media and business.
DetailsEvery now and then, I hear people talk about the number of blogs that have shut down or are no longer updated. I’ve noticed quite the opposite.
DetailsWeekly series of posts based on our favorite tweeted content over the past week. Topics: translation, languages, freelancing, writing, social media and business.
DetailsWe learned how many native speakers of English are proud of their own language after studying the intricacies of it. What’s the story with Romance languages?
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