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The art of failure*…
source From Matador Networks, “20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from Around the World,” from… 1. Toska Russian – Vladimir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades...
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A rose by any other name…
Business Insider reports: We’re now exporting Jersey Shore to Japan. Because the average Japanese viewer has no clue about U.S. geography, MTV re-titled it Macaroni Rascals. If that isn’t offensive...
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Traduttore, traditore…
Over at the always-fascinating Langage Log, Victor Mair responds to an amusing– but as he points out, slightly misleading– piece in The Daily Mail. In “Lost in translation: Hilarious advice signs...
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“Translation is the art of failure”*…
source For to ride a horse. Very dissatisfied customer (brandishing pistol): Here is a horse who have a bad looks. Give me another; I will not that. He not sall know to march, he is pursy, he is...
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“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana”*…
Just as the boundaries of a guitar string (how it is pinned at both ends) determine how it vibrates, the distant past and far future of the universe may govern what happens today. … imposing old...
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“I just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone...
Cattus Petasatus “The Highbrow Struggles of Translating Modern Children’s Books Into Latin.” * Iris Murdoch ### As we try transliteration, we might send thoughtful birthday greetings to Umberto Eco;...
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“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”*…
In 1872 a British general named Alexander Cunningham, excavating an area in what was then British-controlled northern India, came across something peculiar. Buried in some ruins, he uncovered a...
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“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish”*…
… and sometimes, it turns out, the reverse is true: About 20 per cent of the United States population (60 million out of 300 million people) are non-native speakers of English. Speaking multiple...
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“The map is not the territory”*…
Much of the area around a Tanzanian safe house for girls threatened with genital mutilation isn’t recorded on Google Maps. By logging buildings and streets on OSM, volunteers can help outreach...
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“Here we are now, entertain us / I feel stupid and contagious”*…
Bardcore: “Smells Like Teen Spirit Cover In Classical Latin (75 BC to 3rd Century AD)” [TotH to Jonah Goldberg] * Kurt Cobain/Nirvana, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” ### As we scale the top of the...
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“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell...
Ducklings everywhere: the names of Donald Duck’s three nephews across Europe, from Mapologies (where one will also find the other names of Donald himself and of the Flintstones). * Shakespeare, Romeo...
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“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell...
Ducklings everywhere: the names of Donald Duck’s three nephews across Europe, from Mapologies (where one will also find the other names of Donald himself and of the Flintstones). * Shakespeare, Romeo...
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”*…
The number of American university students selecting history as their chosen four year degree has been on the decline since the 1970s… Tanner Greer (@Scholars_Stage) considers four possible reasons–...
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