Whatever translation tool Mona App uses seems to work quite well. Most of the time. I can expect some weirdness with German, and once in a while it falls over with Swedish, but usually I can be pretty sure that I’m getting the gist of it. Just now however, a French post caused a complete meltdown. I don’t know if it was the result of hyper local colloquialisms or if the service has switched to an LLM. Hopefully the former.
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How does it begin?
With the piper’s drone
with the coarse fabric of the land…
Ben Dorain: An Ecopoetic Translation
Garry MacKenzie on translating “Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain” into a 21st-century ecopoem
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When TV goes to Hollywood, you've got to watch the script, says Julian George.
Catch it at https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/julian-george-movie-lovers-short-story-prose or via #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and more…
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DeepL Translate: The world's most accurate translator
Een Europese vertaalapp. Verwijder Google translator mocht je die gebruiken.
#BuyEuropean 
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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.
For our next game I'm looking for tranlators in French, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Japanese.
Any recommendations?
*It's not an immidiate request, yet. Translations will be in a year, but I'd like to calculate stuff better and have recommendations to work with.
The Future of AI: Unleashing the Potential of AI Translation | by Lee Stott.
Ende 2024 haben wir die #DOAJ gelistete #OA-Zeitschrift "#Chronotopos – A Journal of #Translation History" in die #OJS-Infrastruktur der @ubleipzig migriert. Im Interview für den UBL-Blog sprachen wir mit dem Redaktionsteam über die Erfahrungen bei der Zeitschriftenherausgabe im #OpenAccess, den Migrationsprozess und die Zukunftsvisionen für den neuen Zeitschriftenstandort an der @unileipzig: https://blog.ub.uni-leipzig.de/chronotopos-als-vorbild-fuer-diamond-open-access-publizieren/
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Universitätsbibliothek LeipzigUniversitätsbibliothek Leipzig – Chronotopos als Vorbild für Diamond-Open-Access-PublizierenErstes DOAJ gelistetes Journal im Open-Access-Angebot der Universität Leipzig Die Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig bietet den Angehörigen der Universität Lei
Jim reviews The Philosophy of Translation, a new book on the field that brings insights and ideas that just ring so true.
#Translation #Philosophy #Books #Language
http://jimrion.com/2025/03/18/book-review-the-philosophy-of-translation/
Jim Rion - Translator & Writer · Book Review – The Philosophy of Translation
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@adriano I am not an expert on translation, but Deepl supports Japanese
https://www.deepl.com/en/translator
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If you follow #meme you get a lot of memes in different languages which makes it impossible to understand them.
I suggest adding English alt text into the #meme pictures or better adding the text into the post, then the translate feature could help.
Another approach would be to tag with a country shortcut like
#meme_en
#meme_de
#meme_es
#meme_fr
Then people could follow their language.
Just my two cents...
!["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).](https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/173/443/875/026/973/original/1c8b1a4f601f0203.jpeg "\"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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The Art of Arabic Translation: An Interview With Roger Allen https://themarkaz.org/the-art-of-arabic-translation-an-interview-with-roger-allen/ #Arabic #literature #translation
The Markaz Review · The Art of Arabic Translation: An Interview With Roger AllenYale scholar of Arabic Jonas Elbousty talks to one of the most prolific translators of the Arabic novel of the past 50 years.
“I wanted to honour #Scots in a dramatic, vocal context, just as [Edwin] Morgan did in his translations, & so I've tried to bring Pessoa to life in that new context – to embolden his characters, reimagining them a century later, dislocating them to a context more personal to me. Ultimately I tried to care for the poems as if they were my own.”
—Colin Bramwell on FOWER PESSOAS, a reimagining of Fernando Pessoa’s poetry in Scots
https://themadridreview.com/f/fower-pessoas-by-colin-bramwell---a-q-and-a-with-the-author
The Madrid Review'Fower Pessoas' by Colin Bramwell - a Q and A with the author“Each of us is several, is many, a profusion of selves,” wrote Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese writer. Today Carcanet Press release 'Fower Pessoas', a new collection from Colin Bramwell, which takes the poetry of four of...
I google an obscure expression in Robert Louis Stevenson to find other examples that might tell me what it means. All the google hits point to the RLS story itself that I'm translating. /-:
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@mariam_al_masri_author (This might interest you. And what ever discussion results.)
I translate some. But to retain the flavor I use some transliteration, but only after I carefully work in what the words mean. I footnote rarely unless I am quoting something or it seems important. Like I have used an archaic word. Often it is in a glossary or table of characters.
Some examples:
“But excuse me, I am being rude. I am Yakkai Yogen, Seer of the Left, Servant of Her Majesty the Empress.”
The name and title would be 厄介予言左の陰陽道
The name is transliterated, which is what do with all names. I may provide the kanji in a glossary, but seldom translate them. So in the example I would provide the Kanji but not the translation, “Troublesome Prophet”
The table of characters reads: "Yakkai Yogen (厄介予言) Seer of the Left (厄介予言左の陰陽道) Empress’s inugami familiar:
The rest is translated. I never correct Seer to the more correct Onmyōdō; way of Yin and Yang; occult divination system based on the Taoist theory of the five elements.
It is too complicate and I not writing historical fiction.
But I eventually work in how the Empress is referred to and addressed when a friend explains to the main characters.
“Don’t use the Empress’s name; always address her as Heika, ‘Her Majesty,’ and, when referring to her, use Kōgō Heika. Takiyasha-hime, as she was known while alive, led an undead army against Emperor Suzaku and still hates the imperial line. The details are unimportant. What is important is to address her appropriately. Your lives depend on it.”
I use a rare footnote, however, below are sample exceptions.
*Utaushō (歌う閶) and Kagurashō (神楽閶) are sister kodama (tree spirits) guarding the path to Hanayome-shin’s shrine. Their names mean “Singing Gate of Heaven” and “Divine Gate of Sacred Music.” Ura sings, and Kagu plays a kagurabue flute.
* Nagamatsu Tomo (永松友雄) 永 means eternal, 松 means pine, and 友 means companion.
The first one is because the 閶 kanji is archaic and even someone interested in the names would have a difficult time with them.
The second, because it is relevant why this name is being used.
Like most translation it is more an art than a science.
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Have you worked on a Sega Saturn homebrew game or translation patch in the last year or so? Then by all means, enter it into the SegaXtreme Homebrew Competition! It's a celebration of the Saturn's enduring community:
Feeling blessed: working on the translation of a job description for a provincial institution that includes "Developing inclusive recruitment strategies" as one of the candidate's duties.
ɐıunp zsɐɯoʇ This will be a life changer for many people.
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#Apple #AirPods Getting Live #Translation Feature Later This Year
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/13/airpods-live-translation-ios-19/
MacRumors · AirPods Getting Live Translation Feature Later This Year
As part of my effort to bring Farsi translation to docs.python.org, I recorded a video for collaborators showing them how to contribute and work with Transifex and started promoting it in the Farsi community. My tweet thankfully reached around 22 thousand views and my telegram post got 3 thousand views, bringing the project to many people's attention.
