Translating poetry / Das Übersetzen von Gedichten
am 05.06.2007 von http://transblawg.eu
This is the second time I've read this kind of thing in the TLS in recent weeks. This time it'll be online for a few days more, in a review of Ted Hughes, Selected Translations, edited by Daniel Weissbort:
Daniel Weissbort, who edited this selection, tells the story of Hughes taking another poet’s translation of a work by the Hungarian Ferenc Juhasz and, without any knowledge of the original language and no Hungarian speaker to advise him, turning that version into a thrilling poem that drives the existing versions off the map. It is as if there were, as the race has often dreamed, an ur-language, some fundamental human speech predating the …
Hughes the translator / Übersetzen von Gedichten
Transblawg / I recently quoted a review of Ted Hughes' 'translations' of poems from languages he did not speak. In the latest TLS, parts of which are online but I don't know for how long, since I receive my non-virtual copy with a few days' d…
Real-time translation/Echtzeitübersetzung
Transblawg / The terms real-time translation and live translation have both come up in the past few days. About Translation links to TranslationBooth, which offers rapid low-cost translations online. Riccardo’s source was PRWeb: bq. Online translation co…
Language blogs/Sprachblogs
Transblawg / eduFire has an entry on The Top 21 Language Bloggers on the Web (via languagehat). This is about learning languages and presenting a multitude of languages, rather than about linguistics, so Language Log isnt there, for example. Its also a bi…
Language teaching petition UK / Unterschriftenliste: Fremdsprachen in der Hochschule, Großbritannien
Transblawg / This petition speaks for itself. Bradford University has an excellent record of teaching translation and interpreting. I remember the days when Bradford and Salford were the first to integrate at-sight translation and other practical uses of lan…
Düsseldorf Language and Law conference/Konferenz zu Recht und Sprache in Düsseldorf
Transblawg / The Language and Law Conference will be held from May 17 to 19, 2006 in Duesseldorf, Germany. It is an interdisciplinary joint-venture of the University of Duesseldorf and the University of California, Los Angeles. The full programme should be onlin…
Japanese patent translator
Transblawg / There is an article about the patent translator Hidejiro Tanigawa in Daily Yomiuri Online. It’s a description of his career and his opinions about patent translation. It’s a good summary for those who are ignorant of technical translati…
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