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Martin Rundkvist

Tricky translation problem: R.L. Stevenson uses English versions of Icelandic place names in this story. So I have to find the Icelandic originals for my Swedish translation. And then I discover that some of them are just made up, so I have to create Icelandic equivalents of the made-up English place names too.

#translation
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Fictionable

… to start things off, here's our #LatestIssue with stories from Joanna Kavenna, Helga Schubert translated by Aaron Sayne and Lillian M Banks, Rachida Lamrabet translated by Johanna McCalmont, Ben Sorgiovanni and Julian George.

Plus Annie Proulx calls for #writers to defend democracy and Andrzej Klimowski opens his #sketchbook

Catch it all at fictionable.world

#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #bookstodon @bookstodon

The contributors for Fictionable's Winter 2024 issue. From top left: Joanna Kavenna, Annie Proulx, Ben Sorgiovanni, Helga Schubert, Anrzej Klimowski, Rachida Lamrabet, Aaron Sayne, Lillian M Banks, Julian George and Johanna McCalmont
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Ned Hairston :hehim: :theythem:

I'm working on an original translation of the Bible. My goal is to let the words of scripture guide my translation rather than reading a favored theology into the text. As the saying goes, "Where the Bible speaks, we speak, where it is silent, we are silent." In addition to being a formal equivalence, I try to preserve original idioms (with clarification in the footnotes), poetic and metaphorical language, and distinct synonyms (ie. land/ground/dust) where possible.

The text is available under a Creative Commons license. And it is available at a website, and as an ebook, though it is still incomplete.

Please support my translation work:
☕ ko-fi.com/wltbible
📖 wlt.ct.ws

#Bible#Tanakh#Torah
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

This is the animal that never was.
Not knowing that, they loved it anyway:
its bearing, its stride, its high, clear whinny—
right down to the still light of its gaze…

—Don Paterson, “Unicorn”
after Rilke’s “Die Sonette an Orpheus”
Published in POETRY (June/July 2004)

Today, 9 April, is #NationalUnicornDay 🦄

poetryfoundation.org/poetrymag

Unicorn by Don Paterson after Rilke’s “Die Sonette an Orpheus” This is the animal that never was. Not knowing that, they loved it anyway: its bearing, its stride, its high, clear whinny- right down to the still light of its gaze. It never was. And yet such was their love the pure beast arose; they had cleared the space. And in the stable of its nothingness it shook its white mane out and stamped its hoof. They fed it, then, not with hay or corn, but with the chance that it might come to pass. All this gave the creature such a power its brow put out a horn; one single horn. It grew inside a maiden’s looking-glass then one day walked out, and passed into her.
#Scottish#literature#poem
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badeightball

Working across European markets often means translating between languages. We have a great European service for that called DeepL.

So stop using American Google Translate and use our own service at: deepl.com/

www.deepl.comDeepL Translate: The world's most accurate translatorTranslate texts & full document files instantly. Accurate translations for individuals and Teams. Millions translate with DeepL every day.
#buyeuropean#languages#Translation
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Vic 🇪🇺

Oh hey, #PortfolioDay is a thing here?

Dang, y'all are doing some great stuff.

Hi, I'm Vic :)

Doing #LearningDesign (or #InstructionalDesign if you prefer) for #LifelongLearning. Also doing digital production for #EdTech . Also also, #Translation - recently, it's mainly #scifi and video game related projects.
Fully booked until mid 2025, but happy to chat any time. Contact details are on page.

cost-chef.ski/portfolio/

cost-chef.skiPortfolio – Vic Kostrzewski – Learning Designer, Translator, Project Manager, Publisher.
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Jürgen Hubert

Let's see... my #folklore #translation plans for the next few months are:

April: Tales from "Deutsche Sagen" by the Brothers Grimm
May: Snakes
June: Tales from the region where I am doing my vacation (#Schleswig in this case)
July: Another animal-themed month - I am dithering between "rodents", "insects and spiders", "wild animals", and "fish". Does anyone have any preferences?
August: Dunni yet. Maybe some treasure tales again? Or Ultraterrestrial Venetians? Or Fortean Weirdness?

I do want to do a monster-themed month, but that should wait for the darker months...

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Waywords Studio

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝘆𝘁𝗵𝘀” 𝗯𝘆 𝗥𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗵 𝗔𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗲 -

Two essays which move reader into discomfiture: how much of what we read and how we think about it is selected to assuage, to cater even to liberal sense of "comfort"?

#bookreviews#literature#books
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Jürgen Hubert

One thing I am struggling with in my translations of 19th century German folk tale is how to translate the pronouns for a child of indeterminate gender.

In Germany, "Kind" is a "neutral" word, and the usual pronoun is "es" - the counterpart of the English "it". But I am not sure if "it" is the proper pronoun to use in this context.

So what is appropriate here? Note that I am talking about texts where there is _no_ other clue to the child's gender!

#translation#linguistics#English
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