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I've reached a milestone: There are now 300 translations of German folk tales on my wiki.
471 further tales to go. Of course, by the time I have added _those_ I will probably have finished a few dozens of further translations...
#folklore #wiki #translation
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Main_Page
I've reached a milestone: There are now 300 translations of German folk tales on my wiki.
471 further tales to go. Of course, by the time I have added _those_ I will probably have finished a few dozens of further translations...
#folklore #wiki #translation
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Main_Page
My class has gotten to this bright motor age of daring death drivers and the mechanical Moloch. I am reflecting again on the need to translate the transportation planning and engineering works of Knoflacher into English so that we in the car brained Anglosphere can understand what everyone else is doing. (I do not speak German) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Knoflacher #translation #TransportationPlanning #WarOnCars #SafeStreets
My class has gotten to this bright motor age of daring death drivers and the mechanical Moloch. I am reflecting again on the need to translate the transportation planning and engineering works of Knoflacher into English so that we in the car brained Anglosphere can understand what everyone else is doing. (I do not speak German) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Knoflacher #translation #TransportationPlanning #WarOnCars #SafeStreets
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I thought it would be easier to find a non-white #transgender #translator of #Japanese to English on here, but when I asked a few weeks back I got nothing but crickets. Surely there is someone on here who fits that description? The pay is pretty good by contemporary standards of #manga #translation! Drop me a line! Connect me with your friend/acquaintance/colleague who fits this description! Anyway, please boost! #BIPOC #Black #Brown #Indigenous
I thought it would be easier to find a non-white #transgender #translator of #Japanese to English on here, but when I asked a few weeks back I got nothing but crickets. Surely there is someone on here who fits that description? The pay is pretty good by contemporary standards of #manga #translation! Drop me a line! Connect me with your friend/acquaintance/colleague who fits this description! Anyway, please boost! #BIPOC #Black #Brown #Indigenous
Hello Mastodon! Time for a proper #introduction.
I'm Shaun, a translator for the solidarity economy.
• Languages: FR/ES/IT/PT/CA > EN
• Focus: Cooperative finance, governance & social theory.
• The Twist: Ex-corporate finance analyst, now translating for the commons.
You can see my work and my new focus here:
https://rootandbranch.online
#translation #SocialEconomy #SolidarityEconomy #cooperatives #anarchism #sociology #degrowth #finance
Hello Mastodon! Time for a proper #introduction.
I'm Shaun, a translator for the solidarity economy.
• Languages: FR/ES/IT/PT/CA > EN
• Focus: Cooperative finance, governance & social theory.
• The Twist: Ex-corporate finance analyst, now translating for the commons.
You can see my work and my new focus here:
https://rootandbranch.online
#translation #SocialEconomy #SolidarityEconomy #cooperatives #anarchism #sociology #degrowth #finance
文章合为时而著，歌诗合为事而作。
Serious translation: Prose is written for the era, poetry is written for the moment.
New Living Internet translation: Post takes as long as the world needs to hear them, post memes while they're still funny.
source: https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hans/%E8%88%87%E5%85%83%E4%B9%9D%E6%9B%B8
文章合为时而著，歌诗合为事而作。
Serious translation: Prose is written for the era, poetry is written for the moment.
New Living Internet translation: Post takes as long as the world needs to hear them, post memes while they're still funny.
source: https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hans/%E8%88%87%E5%85%83%E4%B9%9D%E6%9B%B8
3/3
This post will be of interest only to language geeks.
Chapter 5 of "How We Learn to Be Brave" includes the following footnote, which I'm not putting quote marks around because it includes quote marks within it. It is therefore separated from my own words by three dashes.
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I began using the phrase "stepping up to the plate" in sermons to describe what we were all called to do in a season of intense need. Because I sometimes preach in Spanish, I wondered how it translated. It doesn't. There is, however, a close parallel expression from the Castilian sport of bullfighting: "coger el toro por los cuernos," that is, "to take the bull by the horns." I came across another saying in Spanish that didn't quite cut it, but nonetheless made me smile: "ponerle el cascabel al gato." As an expression, it means to have the courage to do what others dare not. In English, it means "to put a bell on a cat."
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I (lkdc) had expected that "stepping up to the plate" would make sense to anyone familiar with baseball, regardless of their language. I had also expected that it wouldn't make any sense to anyone, even a native English speaker, in a country without baseball. I would love to hear from people in countries without baseball whether you understand or use the words "stepping up to the plate". I would also love to hear from native Spanish speakers, both those who are in countries where baseball is popular and those who aren't familiar with baseball. How would you say "stepping up to the plate" in Spanish, in the sense of volunteering to do something important (NOT in the literal sense of playing baseball)?
If replying with a Spanish idiom, please say what continent you live on, as that can make a big difference to idioms. I don't know about Budde, but I find European Spanish quite confusing at times!
Although it’s a bit academic for my, erm, *tastes*, this essay clicked with me. I think most of my followers know I am a translator. I think many know I am pretty picky about translation. Most of the time I feel I am on another planet than most #manga translators. But that makes sense, since manga are so diverse.
https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/lessons-of-babel/articles/translation-and-taste (1/2)
I am not the person you want translating ONE PIECE, but I’m pretty sure I’m the person you want translating The Poe Clan, and I like to think that Moto HAGIO is happy with my translations, because she senses that we share similar “tastes.” #translation (2/2)
The next passage in this book is another classic about the proverbial Man From Chu:
There once was a guy from Chu trying to vend his loot. He boasted “I have here a shield so strong that nothing can pierce it! I’m selling a spear so strong that nothing can block it!”
Someone asked: “So what happens when your spear hits your shield?”
An unbreakable shield and an unblockable spear cannot exist in the same world — that is why “shield and spear” means “contradiction.”
Tonight on translations that are almost as unhelpful as the idiom itself, “mark a boat to find a sword”:
There once was a guy on a boat
Who found out that swords do not float.
He pulled out his dagger
With native Chu swagger
And said “I’ll just make me a note.”
“Archipelago of the Sun” meanders across the Baltic Sea in search of a disappeared Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/09/24/books/yoko-tawada-archipelago-of-the-sun-trilogy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #yokotawada #margaretmitsutani #translation #books #literature
“There’s a strange closeness you feel when reading (Osamu) Dazai, as if you know him, as a friend,” says "Retrograde" translator Leo Elizabeth Takada. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/09/22/books/osamu-dazai-new-translations/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #osamudazai #translation #japaneseliterature #books #literature #sambett #davidboyd
3/3
This post will be of interest only to language geeks.
Chapter 5 of "How We Learn to Be Brave" includes the following footnote, which I'm not putting quote marks around because it includes quote marks within it. It is therefore separated from my own words by three dashes.
---
I began using the phrase "stepping up to the plate" in sermons to describe what we were all called to do in a season of intense need. Because I sometimes preach in Spanish, I wondered how it translated. It doesn't. There is, however, a close parallel expression from the Castilian sport of bullfighting: "coger el toro por los cuernos," that is, "to take the bull by the horns." I came across another saying in Spanish that didn't quite cut it, but nonetheless made me smile: "ponerle el cascabel al gato." As an expression, it means to have the courage to do what others dare not. In English, it means "to put a bell on a cat."
---
I (lkdc) had expected that "stepping up to the plate" would make sense to anyone familiar with baseball, regardless of their language. I had also expected that it wouldn't make any sense to anyone, even a native English speaker, in a country without baseball. I would love to hear from people in countries without baseball whether you understand or use the words "stepping up to the plate". I would also love to hear from native Spanish speakers, both those who are in countries where baseball is popular and those who aren't familiar with baseball. How would you say "stepping up to the plate" in Spanish, in the sense of volunteering to do something important (NOT in the literal sense of playing baseball)?
If replying with a Spanish idiom, please say what continent you live on, as that can make a big difference to idioms. I don't know about Budde, but I find European Spanish quite confusing at times!
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