Today’s Classical Chinese translation: The Oil-Hawking Geezer.

Sir Chen Kangsu was a great shot — the best archer in the world, in fact. He was busy practicing in his own yard when some oil-hawking geezer set down his wares to take a good long stare. When he saw that eight or nine of every ten arrows struck the bullseye, the old geezer nodded slightly.

“Oh,” called Kangsu, “are you also a big archery stan? Hot stuff, don’t you think?”

“Meh,” said the hawker, “it’s just a matter of practice.”

Kangsu was insulted. “And just who are you to brush me off like that, huh, hotshot?”

“Here, lemme show you my oil.” The old man put a drinking gourd on the ground, and laid one of those coins with a threading hole in the middle over the mouth. He slowly poured a ladle of oil straight through the threading-hole without leaving the slightest trace of oil on the coin. “See? Just a matter of practice, that’s all.”

Kangsu really had to let that one slide.

Source text: https://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B3%A3%E6%B2%B9%E7%BF%81

Localization note: the original story takes it for granted that of course “money” has a small hole in the middle; I was very confused trying to grasp what was going on until I figured out they meant this particular type of coin.

#classicalchinese #translation

Today’s Classical Chinese translation: The Oil-Hawking Geezer.

Sir Chen Kangsu was a great shot — the best archer in the world, in fact. He was busy practicing in his own yard when some oil-hawking geezer set down his wares to take a good long stare. When he saw that eight or nine of every ten arrows struck the bullseye, the old geezer nodded slightly.

“Oh,” called Kangsu, “are you also a big archery stan? Hot stuff, don’t you think?”

“Meh,” said the hawker, “it’s just a matter of practice.”

Kangsu was insulted. “And just who are you to brush me off like that, huh, hotshot?”

“Here, lemme show you my oil.” The old man put a drinking gourd on the ground, and laid one of those coins with a threading hole in the middle over the mouth. He slowly poured a ladle of oil straight through the threading-hole without leaving the slightest trace of oil on the coin. “See? Just a matter of practice, that’s all.”

Kangsu really had to let that one slide.

Source text: https://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B3%A3%E6%B2%B9%E7%BF%81

Localization note: the original story takes it for granted that of course “money” has a small hole in the middle; I was very confused trying to grasp what was going on until I figured out they meant this particular type of coin.

#classicalchinese #translation

Today’s Classical Chinese translation: The Oil-Hawking Geezer.

Sir Chen Kangsu was a great shot — the best archer in the world, in fact. He was busy practicing in his own yard when some oil-hawking geezer set down his wares to take a good long stare. When he saw that eight or nine of every ten arrows struck the bullseye, the old geezer nodded slightly.

“Oh,” called Kangsu, “are you also a big archery stan? Hot stuff, don’t you think?”

“Meh,” said the hawker, “it’s just a matter of practice.”

Kangsu was insulted. “And just who are you to brush me off like that, huh, hotshot?”

“Here, lemme show you my oil.” The old man put a drinking gourd on the ground, and laid one of those coins with a threading hole in the middle over the mouth. He slowly poured a ladle of oil straight through the threading-hole without leaving the slightest trace of oil on the coin. “See? Just a matter of practice, that’s all.”

Kangsu really had to let that one slide.

Source text: https://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B3%A3%E6%B2%B9%E7%BF%81

Localization note: the original story takes it for granted that of course “money” has a small hole in the middle; I was very confused trying to grasp what was going on until I figured out they meant this particular type of coin.

#classicalchinese #translation

For his book, the “Star Trek” actor draws on personal experiences, as he was one of many Japanese Americans to be imprisoned in internment camps in the U.S. during World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/11/26/books/george-takei-book-japanese-translation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #georgetakei #wwii #startrek #translation

Adults busting on children through the ages, from the Book of the Later Han (describing events ~1900 years ago): “Oh, you’re the great hero who’s going to clean up the world? You can’t even clean up your own room.” #classicalchinese #translation

My translation of the second-to-last verse of Three Character Classic:

人遗子金满籯
我教子惟一经

Some grant their sons and daughters
Their heaps of golden greed;
I teach to you my children,
A book is all you need.

#classicalchinese #translation #poetry

Adults busting on children through the ages, from the Book of the Later Han (describing events ~1900 years ago): “Oh, you’re the great hero who’s going to clean up the world? You can’t even clean up your own room.” #classicalchinese #translation

My translation of the second-to-last verse of Three Character Classic:

人遗子金满籯
我教子惟一经

Some grant their sons and daughters
Their heaps of golden greed;
I teach to you my children,
A book is all you need.

#classicalchinese #translation #poetry

Translators wanted!
Help make JabRef more accessible for researchers speaking other languages.

You can easily translate it via Crowdin using this link:
https://crowdin.com/project/jabref

A big thanks to the volunteer translator for French, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese.

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#i18n #l10n

Why CUDA translation wont unlock AMD

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Translators wanted!
Help make JabRef more accessible for researchers speaking other languages.

You can easily translate it via Crowdin using this link:
https://crowdin.com/project/jabref

A big thanks to the volunteer translator for French, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese.

#academia #translation #research #JabRef #mutilingual #collaboration #localization
#i18n #l10n

The Royal Australian Mint, despite literally making money, apparently can't afford translators and relies on machine translation
#AI #LLM #translation #language #LangToot

I'm not satisfied with DeepL or DeepL Write for #translation and #grammar. For example, it messes up Markdown formatting, eats emojis, etc.

What do you use?

I'd prefer an #opensource solution. The best I've found so far is perhaps LanguageTool.

I'm not satisfied with DeepL or DeepL Write for #translation and #grammar. For example, it messes up Markdown formatting, eats emojis, etc.

What do you use?

I'd prefer an #opensource solution. The best I've found so far is perhaps LanguageTool.

Can any Spanish speakers help with translating these four words from an Argentinian sign painter?

- escolazo

- jentuza (perhaps alternative spelling of gentuza?)

- nagual (perhaps alternative spelling of najual?)

- pusilamine (perhaps pusilánime spelled wrong?)

He's Luis Benz, and this is a lovely short film about him: https://vimeo.com/948463218.

I'm working on sharing the full set of these, but I hit a wall with these four.

#SignPainting #Spanish #Translation #Rotulismo #Argentina

Can any Spanish speakers help with translating these four words from an Argentinian sign painter?

- escolazo

- jentuza (perhaps alternative spelling of gentuza?)

- nagual (perhaps alternative spelling of najual?)

- pusilamine (perhaps pusilánime spelled wrong?)

He's Luis Benz, and this is a lovely short film about him: https://vimeo.com/948463218.

I'm working on sharing the full set of these, but I hit a wall with these four.

#SignPainting #Spanish #Translation #Rotulismo #Argentina

:firefox: Mozilla forces AI on its own community translators, what could go wrong? :meme_catto:

"End of Japanese community"

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446

#mozilla #ai #translation #opensource

The Royal Australian Mint, despite literally making money, apparently can't afford translators and relies on machine translation
#AI #LLM #translation #language #LangToot