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Friday, September 17, 2021

George Smith, Translator of a Civilisation

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  It’s been some time since there’s been a historical post on this blog, so here’s one.   There are translators who are justly famous ...
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Tuesday, September 7, 2021

The Fate of the Afghan Fixers

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    Recent events have disrupted the schedule for this blog. It’s difficult to concentrate on writing with so many disasters unfolding. A ...
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Thursday, August 12, 2021

Translatology in Nigeria

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  We in Europe are woefully ignorant about the vast continent that is sub-Saharan Africa. It was with some surprise that I learnt last week ...
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Friday, July 30, 2021

Afghan Interpreters Fear the Taliban

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  The news is that both the USA and the UK are going to take in a substantial number of the Afghan interpreters who worked for their missi...
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Everyone Is Bilingual

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    It’s commonly said that the majority of people in the world are bilingual This means that they know two or more natural languages. (...
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Saturday, May 29, 2021

Marking Translations Positively

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  From time to time we delve down into the archive of this blog in order to revive a post that deserves not to be forgotten amidst the mass ...
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Sunday, May 16, 2021

Theodor Herzl's Palestine Interpreter and British Translator

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  “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ─ William Faulkner Few people are aware of how far the current tragic conflict in the ar...
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Degrees in Arabic and Middle East History. Certified translator and certified conference interpreter. 30 years of teaching translating and interpreting in Canada, Spain and elsewhere, and of research. Now retired in Spain. For more, see 'natural translation hypothesis' in Wikipedia.
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