Tag Archives: literary translation

The history of dollar

Posted 61 days ago by John Gray

The word dollar has a curious and convoluted history. It is derived, as a word, from Thaler, which itself comes from the the Joachimsthal silver mine in Bohemia. In 1519, the silver from Joachimsthal was first used to mint the …

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Echar un polvo

Posted 220 days ago by John Gray

I have just come across a thrillingly imaginative bit of etymological scholarship, and I wanted to summarise it briefly for the non-Spanish-speakers among my readership. I was interested in the peninsular Spanish expression ‘(echar) un polvo’, which is broadly equivalent …

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Soneto de Repente

Posted 249 days ago by John Gray

Today, a treat for poetry lovers: the results of a translation challenge between Colin (polymath polyglot and QuickSilver President) and Estrella Whiteley. The idea was for Colin to render a Spanish poem into English and Estrella an English poem into …

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Different ways to be elegant whilst sleeping

Posted 276 days ago by John Gray

Yesterday I spent a pleasant afternoon trawling Barcelona’s bookshops for Viscount Lascano Tegui’s De la elegancia mientras se duerme. The Viscount was not actually a viscount, but an Argentinian writer who lived in Paris in the early Twentieth Century, was …

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Digest of translation journals

Posted 282 days ago by John Gray

There is a wide selection of magazines and journals related to translating, interpreting and linguistics on the outstanding Directory of Open Access Journals. I wanted to share some of the articles I have been looking at – not all of …

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