#Translation

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sakaimii

I’ve been thinking of the word localization a lot recently, and I think one thing people need to realize is:All translation is localization, but not all localization is translation.The very

Dr Chloe Beale 🏳️‍🌈

DrChloeBeale

If you’ve ever been bullied at work you will recognise the gaslighting that is going on now. She didn’t know she was doing anything wrong therefore there will be no

Rob Ward

drawpbor

So I've noticed that people tend to use "translation" as a catch-all for various parts of the transmission and use of the Bible. Let me just give a short rundown

My Annoying Opinions

WhiskyOpinions

An excellent piece by @bettinamak on the politics of translation of the names of dishes as they move across cultures. Interesting to think about how this relates to translation in

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s13GES

Is an odd comment. As somebody who is constantly faced with badly translated (academic) essays by translation software, here are a couple of thoughts. /1https://twitter.com/SamwiseHampson/status/1295501979754668032 While the translation cle

Ajab

yakabikaj

My suspicion (just a hunch) is the Ahmadi Yiddish translation of the Qur'an was more about the political/symbolic significance of the language than a practical text. There are earlier Hebrew

Marco Godano 🚥👁️🐧

GodanoMarco

I've been following the game localization/translation discourse, and there's something which I think hasn't been mentioned yet but is very important regarding the divide between how professionals and laymen use

𝕂𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟 𝕄𝕔𝔾𝕦𝕚𝕣𝕖 @ Colorworld Live

KrisComics

Subtitles in anime are someone's adaptation. If you give a show to three different translators, you'll get three different sets of subtitles. What you're reading, is in fact, not the

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rawfudge

if people are fine with a few edits made to a machine translation, then why do we need fan translators?i think this could be improved if people took time to

Jessica Hooten Wilson

HootenWilson

The only translation of the Bible I will not use is ESV. @bethallisonbarr suggests in her book that it’s more propaganda than translation. And Jordan Monson now shows in @CTmagazine

kira

tianxiaju_

not to get into Translation Discourse on this account as well but:I think, a lot of the takes I see going around recently doesn't exactly account for context and the

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mediocrewood

re: official and unofficial translations of manga[ 1/6 ] let's all just come to terms with the fact that if you don't understand the native language of a body of

Prof

covidtweets

There is a new report from CDC showing those who get COVID are more likely to have eaten at a restaurant in the past two weeks compared to those who

Onsi A. Kamel

onsikamel

1199: Innocent III bans reading the Bible in private. 1200: Innocent III sends delegation to burn French vernacular translations.1229: Council of Toulouse banned Bible reading for all laypeople, whether in

Bingqin Li

Bingqin_Li

Lost in translation. The Chinese word “Suzhi” (素质）has been translated into “quality” by God knows who. Then the term 素质教育 Suzhi education becomes education for quality, 提高人口素质 becomes improve population

Steiner

DistantValhalla

Can I ask as someone who doesn’t speak any Japanese, is there ever a time or place for direct translations over m… — I think the main issue is believing

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