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links of the week / týdenní žně (01/52)

sylva — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:30:00 +0000

Marc Ribot: Translating ‚Silent Movies‘ To Music – the 1st album I'm going to buy this year. „walking to the library is still the most ecofriendly way to read“ – Books vs E-books [infographic] Můj projekt three six five je u konce – děkuju všem, kdo mi s ním pomohli. Karel Hynek Mácha – Mayo. Vychází první překlad Máje do španělštiny s pevným […]

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sylva — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:15:26 +0000

TRANSLATION: Two short but informative reviews of two important books were published last weeek: B. J. Epstein's review of The Entrepreneurial Linguist by Dagmar and Judy Jenner and Fabio M. Said's review of Corinne McKay's bok How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator. According to Telegraph, the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary will not be printed […]

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sylva — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:53:52 +0000

TRANSLATION: – Sarah Dillon has published 21 Tips for Timid Bloggers (not only translators, I think). The most interesting to me seem tips no. 12 and 13 – yes, other blogs can be both inspiring and intimidating, like the one written by Sarah-) – B. J. Epstein, a lecturer at the University of East Anglia, drew my attention to […]

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sylva — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:44:43 +0000

TRANSLATION: – This week I've discovered the blog HegelInCanada written by Hege A. Jakobsen Lepri from Canada, the freelancer who translates from English and Italian into Norwegian (a dream language combination for me-). I especially like her latest blogpost „Living with untranslatables“ since – being a translator myself – I have always been intrigued by the English words that […]

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sylva — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:37:52 +0000

TRANSLATION: – Jiri Stejskal took a picture of bizzare signs („Translation prohibited“) that you can find near some Czech tourist attractions and kindly ignored the fact that their author doesn't even realize that „tlumočení“ should be translated as „interpretation“. And what do these signs tell the tourists about the Czech character? – The Independent tried […]

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sylva — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:15:43 +0000

TRANSLATION: Corinne McKay has published a concise blogpost „How to be a better proofreader“. All the six rules are inspiring but the second one really hits the mark, I think: „Proofread in a different format than the original.“ Tim Parks has written a great article on the role of American literature in Europe and the proper […]

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sylva — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:27:11 +0000

TRANSLATION: – An interesting blogpost (at „Unprofessional Translation“) on the necessity of having a language academy includes a joke which seems very topical to me these days: "A Frenchman and an Englishman are each looking for a word in the dictionaries of their respective languages. Neither of them finds it. “Mon Dieu, what a pity,” laments the Frenchman. “I can’t use […]

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sylva — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:23:51 +0000

TRANSLATION: – would you read Dickens translated into the language of the British street? Now you can. – the prize-winning translator John E. Woods says translation is „dangerous and it should not be allowed“ – and he is right. Translation can be definitely dangerous for your mind. neviditelny text INSPIRATION: – the philospher Philip Kitcher published an […]

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sylva — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:11:16 +0000

TRANSLATION: Tranfree 70 is available online, the topic being resisting the rates erosion: (via @translatortips); finally: publishers want a universal e-book format; an online archive is collecting English accents to help academics and actors (via @KaterinaAt & @Transenter); an interesting article on the localisation industry, specifically where supply does not meet demand: (via @sarahdillon); neviditelny text […]

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sylva — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:39:34 +0000

TRANSLATION: – „I believe that serious professional translators, often in private, think of themselves as writers,“ says the American translator Edith Grossman in the book Why Translation Matters based on her lectures; – the University of Tampere in Finland is offering a free e-book about translation agencies (via @fidusinterpres); – the Bulgarian translator Anzelina Penceva has […]

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sylva — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:21:57 +0000

TRANSLATION: – a long, but fascinating read: „How English erased its roots to become the global tongue of the 21st century“ (Guardian); – on 10–12 May Prague hosted GALA 2010 „The language of business. The business of language“ conference; – a thoughtful post „Is Machine Translation a Threat to Human Translators“ was published at Patenttranslator's Blog […]

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sylva — Fri, 07 May 2010 10:16:37 +0000

TRANSLATION: the 69th issue of tranfree on freelancing; a reserved review of the English translation of Gargling Tar (Kloktat dehet) by Jáchym Topol; INSPIRATION: an interesting video „Blogs, TW, the Kindle: The Future of Reading“ with Ben Okri & others (from PEN World Voices Festival); something for hard-core linguists – Verbarius Clock tells time in words - […]

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sylva — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:15:51 +0000

TRANSLATION: Judy Jenner and Dagmar Jenner (@language_news have published their resourceful book The Entrepreneual Linguist (available also as an e-book); on April 28, the conference „Found in Translation: Subtitling for Better Understanding“ took place in Prague; language courses of the US Foreign Service Institute developed before 1989 are now available online (via @langology); the Christian musician […]

a BBC radio programme on translation:

sylva — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:17:19 +0000

The Forum – „Translating and interpreting the cosmos across a wall“ by Emily Kasriel.