Sunday, July 31, 2022

Volunteer Women Interpreters in the Spanish Civil War (1)

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  The penultimate post on this blog was about interpreters in a recent conflict zone. This one is about an older conflict, namely the Span...
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Sunday, July 17, 2022

Translating in Old Age

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    “There are many mentions in this blog of how  young  humans can be when they start to translate, but how  old  can they get before t...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Interpreters in Conflict Zones

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  “We live on a planet dominated by unbroken conflict in which the figure of the interpreter in conflict zones (ICZ) has been present since ...
Saturday, June 25, 2022

Can There Be A Universal History of Translation?

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  When I was a history student (see About Me on the right) I had already read  H. G. Wells ’ The Outline of History , subtitled "The Wh...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Young Interpreters Asks for Your Help

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    Over the years this blog has reported several times on Young Interpreters (YI) . To retrieve some of the posts, enter emtas in the ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Updates on Cuneiform, Fixers and the Booker

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  Update on cuneiform   Last year there was a post on this blog about George Smith, the first decoder and translator of cuneiform writin...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Bi-Music

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Back in 1988 I published one of the earliest articles on the alignment of translations with their originals (see Sources below). I was not...