internationaltranslationday

Today, 30 September, is International Translation Day – read THE BOTTLE IMP: Scottish literature & translation issue free online:

🇩🇪 SUNSET SONG in the GDR
🇮🇹 THE BLACK ARROW on Italian TV
🏆 Scotland’s Nobel-nominated Esperanto poet
🇫🇷 Franco-Scots poetry & postcolonialism
🏗️ Transcreating concrete poetry

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/12/bad-harsk-speech-and-lewit-barbar-tung/

#Scottish #literature #InternationalTranslationDay #translation #SunsetSong #GDR #Italian #Esperanto #French #postcolonial #poetry #concretepoetry

“The use of Scots, apart from the relative ease of working up the right atmosphere, also helps (though dangerously) because of the verbal freedom it confers on a harassed translator”

—Edwin Morgan on translating Mayakovsky into Scots

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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/edwin-morgan-in-touch-with-language/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #translation #InternationalTranslationDay #Scots #Scotslanguage #Russian #EdwinMorgan #Mayakovsky

Professor John Corbett discusses Edwin Morgan’s translation of Rostand’s CYRANO DE BERGERAC – from our 2021 Schools Conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0lp5t85x2g

#Scottish #literature #theatre #drama #translation #InternationalTranslationDay #Cyrano

“Somehow hearing the play in Scots gave Anglophone audiences an insight into Tremblay that had hitherto eluded them”

—Mark Fisher on MICHEL TREMBLAY: PLAYS IN SCOTS – Scots translations of 8 plays by the Quebecois playwright

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https://www.critical-stages.org/29/michel-tremblay-plays-in-scots-two-vols/

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #drama #theatre #Quebec #Tremblay #translation #InternationalTranslationDay

Don’t get lost in translation!

Our translators and interpreters help bring our Union together every day by fostering understanding with their cultural and linguistic craft.

Some concepts are more challenging than others! Here are some of our favourite unique sayings from across the 🇪🇺 👇

🇵🇹 Empurrar com a barriga
🇭🇷 Doće maca na vratanca
🇨🇿 Chodit kolem horké kaše
🇩🇪 Klar wie Kloßbrühe

Tell us, what’s your favourite saying in your mother tongue?

#InternationalTranslationDay

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