Does Justice Lose Something in Translation? – Speakeasy – WSJ.   Translation is a difficult and specialized skill. Translating for the law is a branch of the profession subject to quite particular constraints, and oral translation from a tape being played aloud is even more tricky.

Edith Grossman on the Challenges of Translation in America | Publishing Perspectives. But [Grossman] doesn’t hide that her translation ideology has little to do with exactitude. In Why Translation Matters, she wrote that “fidelity is the noble purpose, the utopian ideal, of the literary translator, but let me repeat: faithfulness has little to do with […]

September 6 – Don’t miss our monthly get together at Books & Books in Coral Gables. Parking is available in the garage (2-hours free pass available with stamp from B&B) or meters on the street. The food is good, the ambiance relaxing and the company great! We will be there when you arrive. Check out […]

In Hospitals, Safety Begins With Communication – Health – NewsUSA Copyright-Free Articles.   In a 2003 study, researchers analyzed 13 patient-doctor encounters that involved an ad hoc translator, such as a nurse, social worker or siblings. On average, these translators made 31 mistakes per encounter. Seventy-seven percent of these errors could have had clinical consequences.

Right to rewrite?|Life|chinadaily.com.cn.   Editorial intervention is something that happens backstage of the translation show, unbeknownst to the reader. Nicky Harman, who has translated several Chinese authors, including Han Dong and Hong Ying, says, “Many publishing houses have editors who will edit your translation whether you like it or not.” “If you come across a […]

Take Five: Thinking about, like, words – LA Canada.   Once in a long-ago classroom, an English teacher admonished her class with this statement: “Class, we need to discuss your usage of words. One is swell, the other is lousy.”

Woot! New additions to dictionary reflect today’s culture – CNN.com.     Beware: Not all words are built to last, wrote dictionary editor Angus Stevenson in a blog posting last week.

Disappearing words: wittol, drysalter, and alienism – Telegraph. ”We track new words but we can also track for the frequency of existing words and when they get below a certain threshold we see them as being obsolete, though they may be used in very specialist circumstances.” Dr. Ruth O’Donovan, Collins Language Division, Glasgow.

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