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记录一些机器翻译服务容易译错的句子 · Issue #29 · tisfeng/Easydict
https://github.com/tisfeng/Easydict/issues/29

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Available on 1 August: my thriller translation, Het resort by Catherine Cooper (original title: The Island).

Scuba diving in the Maldives sounds like fun, until strange things start happening and you're stuck on an island in a thunderstorm... 🏝️ 🇲🇻 🐢 🥽 🐠 🐡 ⛈️ 😱

#books #thriller #BookTranslation #translation #xl8 #boeken #BoekVertaling #VertaaldDoorEenMens #TranslatedByAHuman

Book cover showing a view of luxury chalets on stilts above a tropical sea. The view is from a terrace with two chairs and a small table in the foreground with a glass of red wine that has fallen over and the red liquid spilling onto the floor.

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Available from 1 November: another thriller I translated, by the same author as the last one, Catherine Cooper.

This time we're going skiing in the French Alps, but there's another storm, which means nobody can leave the chalet... 🏠 🇫🇷 🏔️ ⛷️ 🍷 🍄 🌨️ 😱

#books #thriller #hetchalet #BookTranslation #translation #xl8 #boeken #BoekVertaling #VertaaldDoorEenMens #TranslatedByAHuman

Book cover: four glasses of champagne on a table outside against a snowy landscape, one glas has blood spatters on it and there are shards of glass on the table.

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🎉 LiberaForms version 3.6.0 out now! 🚀

We’re happy to release this version with translations now available in Čeština and தமிழ் (Tamil)! 💬

LiberaForms now speaks:

- Castellano
- Català
- Čeština
- Deutsche
- English
- Euskara
- Français
- Galego
- Tamil

A big thank you to all the translators, and special thanks to @trendspotter and @TamilNeram for their invaluable time. 🙏💚

Details at: https://blog.liberaforms.org/2025/01/22/version-360/

#LiberaForms #Translation #FOSS #FreeSoftware #community #Čeština #tamil

Version 3, represented with the fingers of 2 hands.

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🌋🚨🧜‍♀️

#volcano #translation #translate #GoogleTranslate #siren #mermaid #memes #meme #FunnyMemes #funny

"In this case of volcanic eruption, you will hear mermaids. Do not ignore the mermaids; they are there for your safety."

[screenshot of a post by] ProfJenniBarclay @VolcanoJenni:

Perils of Google Translate No. 44a. People seeking greater warning of volcanic eruption want sirens _not_ mermaids. (Spanish: Sirenas).

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🎉 LiberaForms version 3.7.0 out now! 🚀

The translations continue!

There is something special about seeing Free software cross the borders between peoples. This release of LiberaForms comes translated to Русский!

LiberaForms now speaks Castellano, Català, Čeština, Deutsch, English, Euskara, Français, Galego, தமிழ, and Русский.

Thank you to all the translators, and to @gfbdrgng (aka @iuvi) for your time. ♥

Enjoy!

Details at: https://blog.liberaforms.org/2025/02/10/version-370/

#LiberaForms #Translation #Русский #FOSS

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Translators: unsung heroes of a multilingual web

Following the launch of the ‘World Wide Web’ (which became known as ‘the web’) – in 1990, users with a native language other than English reached 5 percent by 1994, 20 percent by 1998, 50 percent by 2000 and 75 percent by 2015.

By Marie Lebert

https://ausit.org/blog/translators-unsung-heroes-of-a-multilingual-web/

#translation #books

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One great short story to read today: Franz Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony”

By Emily Temple

https://lithub.com/one-great-short-story-to-read-today-franz-kafkas-in-the-penal-colony/

In der Strafkolonie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25791

#books #literature #translation

Kafka as a Doctor of Law, around 1906.

A young Franz Kafka is shown posed with composed seriousness, wearing formal academic attire. His hair is neatly combed, and his face bears the thoughtful, introspective expression often associated with his later literary persona.

Kafka is dressed in a dark academic robe or formal suit, possibly accompanied by a white collar or shirt, denoting his recent graduation. The formal wear and subdued tone of the image mark the ceremonial significance of the occasion.

Atelier Jacobi: Sigismund Jacobi (1860–1935) - http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2008_july_02 Franz Kafka: Pictures of a Life by Klaus Wagenbach (1984), p. 58; sourced to Klaus Wagenbach Archiv, Berlin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka#/media/File:Kafka1906.jpg

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Gaelic & Scots: Cultural Connections & Inspirations in the 20th Century

Talks form the FRLSU’s May 6 webinar are now online, looking at

▶️ George Campbell Hay | Deòrsa Mac Iain Dheòrsa
▶️ William Neill | Uilleam Nèill
▶️ Douglas Young
▶️ translations between Gaelic & Scots
▶️ Derick Thomson | Ruaraidh MacThòmais & GAIRM

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvLWE-AoQoGZ7NF6Vt2oYlKn74u0_TKsW

#Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Scots #Scotslanguage #translation #minoritylanguages #20thcentury

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Translating Alasdair Gray

Recorded at the Alasdair Gray Archive on 23 May: a conversation between Professor Enrico Terrinoni (translator of Gray’s work in Italian) & Dr Rodge Glass (Gray’s biographer).

https://youtu.be/fXaiJeJE33k?si=0UG58FFH5DiiMgAP

#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #translation #literarytranslation #Italian

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Moscow is milling with watermelons.
Everything breathes a boundless freedom.
And it blows with unbridled fierceness
from the breathless melonvendors…

“Commended as a Russian translator… for his rendering of Mayakovsky into Scots, Morgan gets the muscles of the English language working with similar vigour in his treatment of Voznesensky”

—Carol Rumens on Edwin Morgan’s translation of Andrei Voznesensky

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/26/poem-of-the-week-selling-watermelons-by-andrei-voznesensky-translated-by-edwin-morgan

#Scottish #literature #translation #Russian #poem #poetry

Selling Watermelons
by Andrei Voznesensky
translated by Edwin Morgan

Moscow is milling with watermelons.
Everything breathes a boundless freedom.
And it blows with unbridled fierceness
from the breathless melonvendors.

Stalls. Din. Girls’ headscarves.
They laugh. Change bangs down. Knives —

and a choice sample slice.
— Take one, chief, for a long life!
Who’s for a melon?
Freshly split! —

And just as tasty and just as juicy are
the capbands of policemen
and the ranks of motor-scooters.
The September air is fresh and keen
and resonant as a watermelon.

And just as joyfully on its own tack
as the city-limit melon-multitudes,
the earth swings in its great string-bag
of meridians and latitudes!

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What is Hwæt? The Debate Behind Beowulf’s Opening Line

By Hana Videen

https://www.medievalists.net/2025/07/hwaet-beowulf-opening-line/

Beowulf at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/12660

#Books #Literature #Translation

The first folio of the heroic epic poem Beowulf, written primarily in the West Saxon dialect of Old English. Part of the Cotton MS Vitellius A XV manuscript currently located within the British Library. This is a digital photographic copy of the folio.

Text shown according to https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43521/beowulf-old-english-version:

HWæT. WE GARDE na in geardagum, þeodcyninga, [129] þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon. Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah, egsode eorlas. Syððan ærest wearð feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah, oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra ofer hronrade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning. ðæm eafera wæs æfter cenned, geong in geardum, þone god sende folce to frofre; fyrenðearfe on geat þe hie ær drugon aldorlease lange hwile. Him þæs liffrea, wuldres wealdend, woroldare forgeaf; Beowulf wæs breme blæd wide sprang, Scyldes eafera Scede landum in. Swa sceal geong guma gode gewyrcean, fromum feohgiftum on fæder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf#/media/File:Beowulf_Cotton_MS_Vitellius_A_XV_f._132r.jpg

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Waiting for Godot Has Been Translated Afrikaans

What took so long?

By: Rick de Villiers

https://theconversation.com/waiting-for-godot-has-been-translated-into-afrikaans-what-took-so-long-257345

#Books #Translation #Theatre

Samuel Beckett in 1977

Roger Pic - Bibliothèque nationale de France

Beckett is shown seated, facing slightly to the left, though his intense gaze looks directly into the camera.

His hair is brushed up into a soft, slightly disheveled silver crown, emphasizing his high forehead.

He wears a simple, dark jacket over a sweater or turtleneck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett#/media/File:Samuel_Beckett,_Pic,_1_(cropped).jpg

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Hi, if you speak any of the following languages, I could really use your help translating a few words for https://jointhefediverse.net.

فارسی,العربية,Bahasa Indonesia, Български, Català, Čeština, 简体中文, 繁體中文, Deutsch (DE), Español (ES), Esperanto, Euskara, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Polski, Português (BR), Русский, Slovenčina, Suomi, 臺灣正體中文

- https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/issues/118
- https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/issues/138
- https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/issues/137

#translation #localization #opensource #HelpWanted #fediverse #JoinTheFediverse

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Literary translation as a linguistic survival strategy | John Corbett

Technology can threaten minority languages such as Scots & Nuosu. Prof Corbett argues that literary translation can, among other things, support minority languages & sustain traditional cultures.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF7nS6_C_KE

#Scottish #literature #translation #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguages

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Looking for a human translator to convey your human words to a human audience? Maybe that's me!

I translate from Swedish, French, Norwegian and Danish into English (mainly UK but US possible depending on the text - I also work with a USian translator as a team where required). I'm a full Member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting for both Swedish and French.

I'm also an Intermediate Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading – in other words, I offer proofreading/editing/copyediting services too.

Oh, and copywriting!

I work on everything from press releases through sustainability reports to novels. Particularly fond of archaeology/history (got to get use from my MA somehow) and personal development, but really I'm interested in almost everything and translation allows me to be a nerd about all kinds of things.

The subjects I *don't* do are legal, financial and medical.

#comissionsopen
#getfedihired
#translation
#copywriting
#proofreading
#editing
#archaeology
#PersonalDevelopment

I feel like this needs a pic, so here are two of my three cats looking comfy (if a bit warm).

A dark tortoiseshell and a tricolour cat are lying on top of each other, squished into a padded cat bed. The tricolour is looking straight into the camera. They look comfy but a bit cramped.

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