The Errant Translator: Field Notes
Artist and translator Sawako Nakayasu considers a multiplicity of approaches to translations.
Books about French fiction -- Translations into English at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/5605
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It's the beginning of January - and it's particularly cold out! Yukari decides it's probably best that she doesn't go out, it's too cold for her.
https://honyaku.space/manga/azumangadaioh/1/10/1/
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We are making the Silex editor translatable, funded by @nlnet through the @NGIZero Commons Fund https://www.silex.me/nlnet
We would rather start where people are already waiting than guess from download numbers
Which language should we do first?
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Ms. Yukari welcomes a newborn into her family - and the students are all very surprised! When did she even give birth? She was pregnant? What!?
https://honyaku.space/manga/azumangadaioh/1/10/5/
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Starting the year off right with Sakaki - she wins some stuffed animals from a crane game, and then stares a local cat for a short while. What a relaxing day!
https://honyaku.space/manga/azumangadaioh/1/10/2/
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Book launch: A Wee Bit Zen, by Alan Spence
7 October, Typewronger Books, Edinburgh – free
Haiku & senryu, translations from the Japanese; found poems, sound poems, visual & text poems, puns & one-liners, overheard word-on-the-street poems, everyday zen – this new collection of short-form poetry from Alan Spence is a descendant of his bestselling cult classic GLASGOW ZEN
#Scottish #literature #poetry #booklaunch #Edinburgh #Zen #haiku #senryu #translation
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The girls start into the New Year! Sakaki reassures herself that it's going to be a good year with the little toy she won. But Yomi isn't starting the year off too well, she gave-in to some sweet New Year's food and put on a few pounds.
https://honyaku.space/manga/azumangadaioh/1/10/3/
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#Honyaku #Manga #Japanese #Translation #AzumangaDaioh
FediSuite
Your Fediverse Management Platform
Anyone can now translate FediSuite. I run my own Weblate at weblate.fedisuite.com for it. You create an account and work in your browser, no Git needed. If your language is missing, add it yourself. What you translate arrives as a pull request with me, I read through it and ship it with the next release.
FediSuite currently speaks German, English, Italian, French and Spanish. French and Spanish were not done by native speakers, so it matters that someone checks both and submits corrections. Reviewing existing languages is as welcome as adding new ones.
The web interface, the server messages and the emails can be translated.
https://weblate.fedisuite.com/
#weblate #fedisuite #translate #translation #übersetzen #übersetzung
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Hi everyone!
I’m opening my English ↔ Indonesian translation commissions again this month, and I’m available to take on new work immediately.
I’ve been translating since 2018. I work in both directions (English to Indonesian and Indonesian to English) and can help with books, comics, articles, academic journals, websites, software, games, technical documentation, and other general or specialized material.
I also offer Indonesian proofreading and comic typesetting.
I’m open to one-off freelance projects of any size, recurring work, and longer-term or full-time opportunities. Small jobs and quick pieces are welcome too.
My starting rates are:
• General translation: USD 0.005–0.010 per source word
• Technical translation: USD 0.007–0.013 per source word
• Comic translation: USD 3–6 per source page
• Indonesian proofreading: USD 0.003–0.005 per word
• Comic typesetting: quoted per project
• Minimum fee: USD 5
To be transparent, my immediate goal is to earn roughly USD 330 by the end of this month. That would help me cover my monthly bills and ease some of my family’s debt. This is why I’m actively looking for additional paid work right now, and every project—including a small one, would genuinely help.
I can start immediately. Urgent work can also be discussed depending on the scope and my availability.
For international clients, I can accept PayPal, Ko-fi, or Wise. For clients in Indonesia, I can accept bank transfer, GoPay, or DANA.
To request a quote, email me at ufal@kebulimusthofa.com. If possible, please include the language direction, approximate word or page count, file format, and preferred deadline.
Service details and rates:
https://ufal.kebulimusthofa.com/translation/commission.html
Portfolio:
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Thank you so much. Boosts, shares, and referrals would be greatly appreciated!
#FediHire #FediHelp #Translation #Indonesian #Localization #Proofreading #MutualAid #TootSEA
I’m opening my English ↔ Indonesian translation commissions again this month, and I’m available to take on new work immediately.
I’ve been translating since 2018. I work in both directions (English to Indonesian and Indonesian to English) and can help with books, comics, articles, academic journals, websites, software, games, technical documentation, and other general or specialized material.
I also offer Indonesian proofreading and comic typesetting.
I’m open to one-off freelance projects of any size, recurring work, and longer-term or full-time opportunities. Small jobs and quick pieces are welcome too.
My starting rates are:
• General translation: USD 0.005–0.010 per source word
• Technical translation: USD 0.007–0.013 per source word
• Comic translation: USD 3–6 per source page
• Indonesian proofreading: USD 0.003–0.005 per word
• Comic typesetting: quoted per project
• Minimum fee: USD 5
To be transparent, my immediate goal is to earn roughly USD 330 by the end of this month. That would help me cover my monthly bills and ease some of my family’s debt. This is why I’m actively looking for additional paid work right now, and every project—including a small one, would genuinely help.
I can start immediately. Urgent work can also be discussed depending on the scope and my availability.
For international clients, I can accept PayPal, Ko-fi, or Wise. For clients in Indonesia, I can accept bank transfer, GoPay, or DANA.
To request a quote, email me at ufal@kebulimusthofa.com. If possible, please include the language direction, approximate word or page count, file format, and preferred deadline.
Service details and rates:
https://ufal.kebulimusthofa.com/translation/commission.html
Portfolio:
https://ufal.kebulimusthofa.com/translation/portfolio.html
Thank you so much. Boosts, shares, and referrals would be greatly appreciated!
#FediHire #FediHelp #Translation #Indonesian #Localization #Proofreading #MutualAid #TootSEA
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Osaka is sleeping peacefully, I wonder what kind of dream she's having? It seems like even in her dreams, Osaka is impressed by the many talents of her friend Chiyo.
https://honyaku.space/manga/azumangadaioh/1/10/10/
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Here's #Autumn with Mark Haddon, tony lashden translated by Maddy Robinson, Rolli, Laura O'Meara and James Young. Plus Cherise Saywell picks her top five #ShortStories
All at https://fictionable.world
#books #reading #fiction #comics #translation #blog #podcast #books
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Mr. Kimura returns, and we learn a little bit about his family life. And he's married to a beautiful woman? This has to be some kind of prank.
https://honyaku.space/manga/azumangadaioh/1/10/6/
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Chiyo lands to talk to Osaka. She thinks that her pigtails might suite Osaka well! But Osaka isn't so easily tricked, these things might be parasites...
https://honyaku.space/manga/azumangadaioh/1/10/11/
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30 September is International Translation Day!
THE BOTTLE IMP: Scottish literature & translation
🇩🇪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 #translation #InternationalTranslationDay #Germany #German #GDR #Italy #Italian #Esperanto #France #French #postcolonialism #ConcretePoetry
“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 – 8 Scots translations of the Québécois playwright’s work
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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
“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, in EDWIN MORGAN: In Touch With Language. A New Prose Collection 1950–2005 (ASL, 2020)
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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
![2: A note to the translation of Mayakovsky’s ‘Fiddle-Ma-Fidgin’
In the triptych by Hieronymus Bosch known as The Garden of Earthly Delights, the ‘Hell’ panel shows a man crucified on a harp, with the strings passing through his body, but his arms free, embracing it, in an extraordinary image of mingled pain, beauty, and yearning. In the same picture, this man is surrounded by much more grotesque images, where figures of desperation are doing things to and with various musical instruments
Which even to name wad be unlawfu’.
The poetry of Mayakovsky from his futurist period shows a similar conjunction of extreme yearning and coarsely grotesque asseverations, held together in a web of convincing fantasy where animate and inanimate react on one another. In the present poem (actual title The Violin and a Little Nervously, date 1914), written when Mayakovsky was twenty, the poet expresses in miniature the situation of his whole life: loneliness, desire to communicate and ‘contribute’, sympathy towards the outcast and the misunderstood. The potential desperation in this, however, finds voice through fantasy, fun, and caricature. A violin (the word is feminine in Russian) begins to ‘sing’ in such a personal and yearning way that the other instruments in the orchestra get annoyed with it and tell it to shut up until it can control itself; the poet bursts in on the orchestra and despite their ribald laughter embraces the […]](/proxy/post_attachment/1192233/4447cc34d9.webp "2: A note to the translation of Mayakovsky’s ‘Fiddle-Ma-Fidgin’
In the triptych by Hieronymus Bosch known as The Garden of Earthly Delights, the ‘Hell’ panel shows a man crucified on a harp, with the strings passing through his body, but his arms free, embracing it, in an extraordinary image of mingled pain, beauty, and yearning. In the same picture, this man is surrounded by much more grotesque images, where figures of desperation are doing things to and with various musical instruments
Which even to name wad be unlawfu’.
The poetry of Mayakovsky from his futurist period shows a similar conjunction of extreme yearning and coarsely grotesque asseverations, held together in a web of convincing fantasy where animate and inanimate react on one another. In the present poem (actual title The Violin and a Little Nervously, date 1914), written when Mayakovsky was twenty, the poet expresses in miniature the situation of his whole life: loneliness, desire to communicate and ‘contribute’, sympathy towards the outcast and the misunderstood. The potential desperation in this, however, finds voice through fantasy, fun, and caricature. A violin (the word is feminine in Russian) begins to ‘sing’ in such a personal and yearning way that the other instruments in the orchestra get annoyed with it and tell it to shut up until it can control itself; the poet bursts in on the orchestra and despite their ribald laughter embraces the […]")
![[…] violin and proposes to this ‘wooden bride’, which he sees as a kindred soul.
I wanted in my translation to bring out if I could the distinctive Mayakovskian mixture of grotesque high-jinks and underlying seriousness of purpose. To do this, I used Scots, trying to tap an enduring Scottish tradition of grotesque exaggeration or fantasy which is found in Dunbar and the ballads, Burns and MacDiarmid.
They’ll turn me in your arms, lady,
Into an esk and adder;
But haud me fast, and fear me not,
I am your bairn’s father.
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. What can only be weakly called ‘expressive’ words tumble from the Caledonian cornucopia: slunkert, daunert, glinkit, sprachlt, crunkelt, yowp and yowl, for which ‘slunk’, ‘wandered’, ‘glanced’, ‘sprawled’, ‘folded’, ‘bawl and howl’ are unimpressive equivalents. The temptation in this is to make the poem look more continuously vivid or ‘strange’ than it really is. Fortunately it is difficult to make Mayakovsky look over-vivid, as his diction employs every liberty the genius of Russian allows, but the method would work only with poets who were similarly inventive and uninhibited in their linguistic texture. I don’t look on Scots as a medium that can now be widely or thoughtlessly used in poetry, but against the argument that we have reached the stage where it should be given up altogether I would offer the evidence of my own experience in translating Mayakovsky (and add to it Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Scottish version of Blok’s The Twelve): Scots gets closer than English to the ‘barbarian lyre’ of the revolutionary spirit. If people can be persuaded to read it, it will give them a sensation they cannot at the moment get from English verse.
The Review 1, April/May 1962.](/proxy/post_attachment/1192234/07ab7e5b54.webp "[…] violin and proposes to this ‘wooden bride’, which he sees as a kindred soul.
I wanted in my translation to bring out if I could the distinctive Mayakovskian mixture of grotesque high-jinks and underlying seriousness of purpose. To do this, I used Scots, trying to tap an enduring Scottish tradition of grotesque exaggeration or fantasy which is found in Dunbar and the ballads, Burns and MacDiarmid.
They’ll turn me in your arms, lady,
Into an esk and adder;
But haud me fast, and fear me not,
I am your bairn’s father.
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. What can only be weakly called ‘expressive’ words tumble from the Caledonian cornucopia: slunkert, daunert, glinkit, sprachlt, crunkelt, yowp and yowl, for which ‘slunk’, ‘wandered’, ‘glanced’, ‘sprawled’, ‘folded’, ‘bawl and howl’ are unimpressive equivalents. The temptation in this is to make the poem look more continuously vivid or ‘strange’ than it really is. Fortunately it is difficult to make Mayakovsky look over-vivid, as his diction employs every liberty the genius of Russian allows, but the method would work only with poets who were similarly inventive and uninhibited in their linguistic texture. I don’t look on Scots as a medium that can now be widely or thoughtlessly used in poetry, but against the argument that we have reached the stage where it should be given up altogether I would offer the evidence of my own experience in translating Mayakovsky (and add to it Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Scottish version of Blok’s The Twelve): Scots gets closer than English to the ‘barbarian lyre’ of the revolutionary spirit. If people can be persuaded to read it, it will give them a sensation they cannot at the moment get from English verse.
The Review 1, April/May 1962.")
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 #EdwinMorgan #InternationalTranslationDay #drama #theatre #translation #Rostand #EdmondRostand #Cyrano
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Osaka tries to save Chiyo-chan! But it looks like it was no good, she needed those twintails to live... What a sad turn of events.
https://honyaku.space/manga/azumangadaioh/1/10/12/
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“The multi-lingual, multi-cultural fabric of this nation is something we need to actively celebrate and explore”
Scotland’s Makar Peter Mackay explores the legacy of Scotland as a multilingual country ahead of his event at Push the Boat Out – Edinburgh’s poetry festival
https://www.theskinny.co.uk/books/features/peter-mackay-makar-interview
#Scottish #literature #poetry #language #languages #translation #multilingualism #Scots #Scotslanguage #Gaidhlig #Gaelic
Alastair Reid (1926-2014): The Legacy
19 November, University of St Andrews
Alastair Reid (1926–2014) was one of the major Scottish poets of the 20th century. He also became one of the leading translators, into English, of Latin American poets, notably Jorge Luis Borges & Pablo Neruda.
This event will include readings of Reid’s poetry, & a discussion of his legacy as a poet, scholar and translator.
https://poeticinnovation.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
#Scottish #literature #poetry #translation #Borges #Neruda #StAndrews
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Chiyo tries to stick up for Mr. Kimura, but it's no good, he's just too weird. Ms. Yukari chimes in with some gossip that she heard about the wife. Apparently, she's a good person!
https://honyaku.space/manga/azumangadaioh/1/10/8/
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