Unprofessional Translation

Today, 30 September, is the annual World Translation Day. It’s held on the thirtieth of September because that’s the feast day of Saint Jero...

                         The very modern term fansubbing refers to non-professional subtitling, in particular the subtitles created volun...

    Once again, the European Commission is running its annual competition for secondary school students. The schools must be in member cou...

  After a string of theoretical posts, here’s one on a practical and very contemporary topic. Distance interpreting aka remote interpre...

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The notion of  norms  in translation was introduced by an Israeli translatologist, the late Gideon Toury , in the 1970s. The term refe...

There’s been a puzzling spike in requests for one of my papers. Its title is From Fairy Tale to Pantomime and it can be accessed on m...