Hamlet Soliloquy Blog
CONFRONTING TRANSLATION DEAD-ENDS When you’re translating, what do you do when you know you don’t know what to think about…
Altered content
A MOMENT OF A PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR TRANSLATING “ALTERED” CONTENT (WITH DETERMINATION AND FOCUS, OF COURSE) Google Translate songs. I imagine…
Real French
A BRIEF TASTE OF “REAL” FRENCH “The world is a village.” Indeed, when you consider the most recent developments in…
Having fun with translation
HAVING A LANGUAGE LAUGH (FEATURING GRAMMARLY) One thing I regularly see online adverts for is an app called Grammarly, which…
Social Literacy and Translation
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN SOCIAL LITERACY AND TRANSLATION I am eager to challenge the idea that, as a professional translator, I…
Personal Opinion
Just something I’m wondering about subtitles… For this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBBB-vJZB50 I wrote alternative wording for the start of this speech – or…
What Do I Say?
HOW DO I DECIDE WHAT TO SAY? Before I (once again) start discussing things inspired by my own reasoning and…
Recent job
I recently did a proofreading job with a twist. At the start I was given three files: 1) the original…
COMPARING MACHINE TRANSLATIONS
This is another of my little case studies relevant to languages: I took the lyrics of the French song Sans…
Ignoring Distraction
AN EXERCISE IN DEALING WITH NON-EXTERNAL DISTRACTION IN TRANSLATION WORK Warning: this blog contains a project which features a song…