@zehrovak
The Czech-English translator – not the Carshalton ironmonger's. Latest translations include books on Cz Legions in Siberia and Cz astronomers worldwide. Getting down to the nuts and bolts of translation theory. Thingy/doodah.
Pleased to report that @zehrovak.bsky.social will carry the torch from here, with support from the translators of the Facebook group Czechlist: www.facebook.com/groups/188751454462/.
I'm sure it will take on a different form going forward -- maybe even with pie charts or line graphs!
Happy publication day! 🌟 "Translation and Infrastructure: Concepts and Applications", co-authored by Anne O'Connor and myself in Translation Studies, is now available in #OpenAccess. #translation #infrastructuralthinking www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Autumn in the Giant Mountains
The art of literary translation is a source of fascination and amazement to me now-- I will never skim over another translator's name again--Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social brought a book I had read 3 times into miraculous new realms on a 4th read.
#xl8 #translation
🤓 From my blog archives: #Translators, are you guilty of nerd view?
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smoothly
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comme une lettre à la poste
Ex.:
🇬🇧 The rollout of the new guidelines will not go smoothly this time around.
🇫🇷 La mise en œuvre des nouvelles directives ne passera pas comme une lettre à la poste cette fois.
#xl8
Oh, Lara, I hear you!
#literarytranslation #pitchingtranslations
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to be inspired to
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avoir le déclic pour
Ex.:
🇬🇧 When we settled in Spain, we were inspired to become vegetarians.
🇫🇷 En posant nos valises en Espagne, nous avons eu ce déclic pour devenir végétariens.
#xl8 #translation
next to nothing
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trois fois rien
Ex.:
This dish cost me next to nothing.
Ce plat m'a coûté trois fois rien.
#xl8 #translation
#xl8 🌐
This valuable discussion of how literary translation works raises points often missed in discussions of genealogical translation. #genealogy #translation
And as for those "echoes", I remember once coming across the concept of "taboo (semantic) leakage" e.g. when one meaning of "cock" has an influence on usage of another meaning. But I can find no reference now to semantic leakage outside the context of LLMs.
As for Nietzsche, he wrote something to the effect that maturity is nothing but the rediscovery of the earnestness employed in our childhood games. :-)
They are perhaps competing against the script itself, which perhaps represents a particular cognitive schema (e.g. "house", "going shopping" etc.) Just a thought.
Okay that is stretching things a bit, but that might be because it is normally a covert, underlying reason. I mean why else would youngsters argue so much during their sociodramatic role playing games, which often follow very strict _rules_?
In make-believe games we might be trying to upstage each other or our own previous performance. I feel the idea of competition is always there in the background of a game to some extent.
Yes, that is an interesting semantic shift between game and Spiel (or Czech hra for that matter). All the same, he was writing in English, :-) and I think competition is not an either/or polarity, but that it can lurk in the background before coming to the fore...
What do you think of Wittgenstein's assertion (re family resemblances) that all games have common features, but no one feature is found in all of them? Surely not. I think competition is the common element even in a game like ring-a-ring-a-roses. At least the way I used to play it when I was five.
While looking around for more examples of repetition that work well in everyday texts, I came across this useful rundown of seven types of repetition recognized in classical rhetoric. Number four can still often be heard at Speakers’ Corner.
#editing
Oh, many thanks for letting me know, Wendy. I was wondering what Nick was on about. I have now hopefully evicted the gremlins...
No worries. As it happens I am part Welsh, but over the course of a hundred years the swarthy Welsh contingent in my family moved from Flintshire via Cheshire to Manchester, which some consider to be the "capital of the north". Now that is a case where repetition works well IMO. :-) Or does it?
A full post? But that is a full post! Several quotes if you look carefully. I may possibly write even more after due deliberation... Perhaps some more examples of repetition that works. No hurry. :-)
Hey bud, :-) what makes you think I am not a Welshman?
I find some academic writers insist on avoiding any and all repetition in their texts with the same grim determination as someone of lesser years superstitiously avoiding nicks in the pavement (cracks in the sidewalk to you). So I have collected a few notes on the subject to allay their fears.
I couldn't get that emotionally invested in the characters, perhaps because I was heavily into "novel of ideas" mode.
Good idea. Hezké počteníčko na dobrou noc. :-) I find that writing a little review helps me to remember what I read years later e.g.
When I were a lad it took me under four minutes to boil an egg to optimum viscosity, i.e. what the Czechs call "na hniličku", i.e. overripe-pear consistency, not too runny but not too hard to dunk your soldiers in. Now it takes almost twice as long. Makes you wonder what is going on. :-)
Feliĉan Kristnaskon!
