Friday, February 25, 2022

Translating Atmosphere and Tone

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In previous posts we have discoursed briefly on emotion and forcefulness in translating. (To find the posts, enter affective and forceful...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Literary Translation in India

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    Surprising though it may sound, I dare to say, though I don’t have the statistics to prove it, that the country with the most literary...
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Sunday, January 23, 2022

The Natural Translation Hypothesis is 50

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  To all readers of this blog A belated Happy New Year and Better 2022! The blog has been desultory in the past few months due to an eff...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Translating Forceful Language

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    A recent post on this blog dealt with the translating of emotional language (to retrieve it, enter affective in the Search box on the...
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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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