Tag Archives: Translations

Translators without borders needs you

Posted 655 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

Just a few words about an organisation that we at QuickSilver are big fans of: Translators Without Borders. In crisis situations such as the earthquakes in Japan or Haiti, the language barrier that can exist between aid workers and the …

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Translating Arabic 2: Gaddafi and the Libyan dialect

Posted 805 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

As Linton Weeks observed on NPR recently, different English interpretations of Mubarak’s ‘resignation’ speech gave very different ideas of what he was saying. Numerous other commentators have made similar observations regarding the slew of defiant or grovelling speeches given by …

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Robinson Crusoe in words of one syllable

Posted 1728 days ago by Colin Whiteley

One interesting way to consider the art of the translator is to compare it to that of a poet. Both attempt to express ideas in writing within some very specific constraints. The poet constrains his own work by setting rules …

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My favourite book on translation – Hofstadter

Posted 1730 days ago by Colin Whiteley

It’s time I mentioned my favourite book on translation: Le Ton beau de Marot – In Praise of the Music of Language, by Douglas Hofstadter, whom many will know as the author of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. …

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The role of client reviewers in corporate translation projects

Posted 1735 days ago by Colin Whiteley

The most successful corporate translation projects are those in which all participants are satisfied with the final result. This is by no means easy and can often only be achieved in the mid-term. And one of the keys to this …

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