Break. Halfway through the text. There's nothing more boring than having to translate your own text, one that's riddled with technical terms from oil mining and ecology. I feel like I'm running a marathon. Who makes me a coffee?

There's a moment that happens sometimes when you're working on #translation in song / poetry.
A phrase - say, three words, five syllables, accent on 1/3/5 syllable - pops into your head in the target language, and it means what you want it to mean, and it's got the syllables and the accents JUST RIGHT.
I cannot begin to describe how good this feels. As someone who gets turned on by sounds and rhythms, this is competence kink + sonic jouissance + sometimes I get paid for it.
AAAAAH

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱-𝗕𝗼𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗪𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱" 𝗯𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘂𝗸𝗶 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗸𝗮𝗺𝗶 (𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀. 𝗝𝗮𝘆 𝗥𝘂𝗯𝗶𝗻) -

Rubin's new translation of this classic Murakami re-discovering the story in compelling ways: a must for Murakami fans!

https://youtu.be/oaQeck8IV9A

#JosephineBaker Marcel Sauvage
#Tanzen #Singen #Freiheit
#Memoiren
#translation "Tanzen, Singen, Freiheit"
Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart 2025
ISBN 9783150115220
#dance #singing #freedom #performance #books
281 Seiten, 26,00 EUR

Browse the @fictionable #archive with more than 50 exclusive #ShortStories from writers including Samantha Harvey, Jenny Erpenbeck, M John Harrison and more.

https://www.fictionable.world/issues_front.html

Image: Bree Anne

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PTIGlobal revolutionizes translation with AI-powered machine translation and expert human post-editing, enabling businesses to scale global communication efficiently across 30+ languages #Translation #GlobalBusiness

I am embarking on my first serious #translation project. My reading group has a text of #Lacan’s cases at Sainte-Anne, including case interviews, but we can only find a Spanish version of the document. Finding the French original might help a bit.

It’s an interesting challenge. The field of #psychoanalysis uses language is quite eccentric ways that make machine translation almost impossible.

I tried a bulk translate on the first place just to see what it gave me, and it’s practically useless.

Look what arrived at HQ this morning! Memoirs of a French Courtesan Volume 3: Luck goes on sale May 13, online and in bookstores.

Translators: unsung heroes of a multilingual web

Following the launch of the ‘World Wide Web’ (which became known as ‘the web’) – in 1990, users with a native language other than English reached 5 percent by 1994, 20 percent by 1998, 50 percent by 2000 and 75 percent by 2015.

By Marie Lebert

https://ausit.org/blog/translators-unsung-heroes-of-a-multilingual-web/

I couldn't help shedding tears while translating an essay on grief this morning. I've experienced this translating fiction too.
The catharsis of translation is ten times that of just reading because you have to internalize every shade of emotion intended by the author.

The literary translation process is about to become problematic again… #translation … because: we are in a situation in which external events, be they social, economic or political, appeared almost immediately as an expression of a more hidden inner problem… so just as our language and our cultures need to be broken, we cannot translate our way out of this situation. #climate #philosophy

Tricky translation problem: R.L. Stevenson uses English versions of Icelandic place names in this story. So I have to find the Icelandic originals for my Swedish translation. And then I discover that some of them are just made up, so I have to create Icelandic equivalents of the made-up English place names too.

#French #German #Inspiration for the Times

From the archives: "I am not the only one doing this, there are many Taiwanese people engaging in this kind of people’s diplomacy." #translation

https://lingua.globalvoices.org/2024/06/polish-taiwanese-cultural-bridges-an-interview-with-translator-wei-yun-lin-gorecka/

Here they are, in video form, the marvellous #ShortStories for #Winter2024 from Joanna Kavenna, Helga Schubert translated by Aaron Sayne and Lillian M Banks, Ben Sorgiovanni, Julian George and Rachida Lamrabet translated by Johanna McCalmont.

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… to start things off, here's our #LatestIssue with stories from Joanna Kavenna, Helga Schubert translated by Aaron Sayne and Lillian M Banks, Rachida Lamrabet translated by Johanna McCalmont, Ben Sorgiovanni and Julian George.

Plus Annie Proulx calls for #writers to defend democracy and Andrzej Klimowski opens his #sketchbook

Catch it all at https://fictionable.world

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… it's Thursday, so must be time for a #NewServer

Hello from @fictionable

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I'm working on an original translation of the Bible. My goal is to let the words of scripture guide my translation rather than reading a favored theology into the text. As the saying goes, "Where the Bible speaks, we speak, where it is silent, we are silent." In addition to being a formal equivalence, I try to preserve original idioms (with clarification in the footnotes), poetic and metaphorical language, and distinct synonyms (ie. land/ground/dust) where possible.

The text is available under a Creative Commons license. And it is available at a website, and as an ebook, though it is still incomplete.

Please support my translation work:
https://ko-fi.com/wltbible
https://wlt.ct.ws

Every book is an adventure. Andrzej Klimowski sets off on a journey around his latest graphic novel, Edifice.

Catch it at https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/andrzej-kilmowski-drawing-writing-graphic-novel-edifice

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