John Gordon Ross

The Google Translator Toolkit is handy for small-scale stuff like blog posts, or at least I find it so. Here is a video presentation:

[Read more →]

[Read more →]

Or “5000 Words,” by Sharon Neeman, bless her. So, so true – if you don’t identify with it a hundred per cent, you’re not a real translator. Found via Beyond Words.

[Read more →]

There’s a light-hearted discussion going on over at Language Log about the Hokey Cokey, provoked by the Telegraph digging up the old story about its lyrics being anti-Catholic (a distorsion of “the Latin “hoc est enim corpus meum” or “this is my body” used by Catholic priests to accompany the transubstantiation during mass,” says the [...]

[Read more →]

Corinne McKay of Thoughts on Translation has touched a nerve with her post on “We just translate”…or do we?” Translators have two often contradictory goals: accuracy of translation, and quality of language. She gamely mentions failing two translation tests in a row for different agencies, one on the grounds that her translation was “too faithful [...]

[Read more →]