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[Multilingual Monday] The Art Of Translation: The ASL Edition

aadroma Aug 16, 2010 22:39

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A quickie here that relates to the concert that wasn't this past weekend -- above is a duet of ASL signers doing their own interpretations of their respective parts of "I Need You Now" by Lady Antebellum. As we look at the chorus -- interpreted differently by both signers, you can see vast differences in style, word choice, etc. And this is ( Read more... )

multilingual monday, concert, translation, youtube, asl, interpretation

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[Multilingual Monday] The Google Translate Chronicles

aadroma Oct 26, 2009 22:25

So I was in Bolingbrook for a Hallowe'en party, and I ran into, among other people, muckefuck, and of course we had to start talking about languages. Someone who was part of our conversation made reference to automatic machine translation. "Well I understand there are pretty good ones these days!" he said, and I could only laugh, especially given my ( Read more... )

漢字, multilingual monday, עברית, 日本語, hebrew, translation, chinese, kanji, japanese, babelfish, hanzi, 中文, google translate

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[Multilingual Monday] Lost in translation

aadroma Aug 17, 2009 19:23

I was very unsure why I had even gone to Shabbat services this Saturday, but I'm glad I did, as it gave me the inspiration to write this article and to pursue other phenomenon like it.

This past Saturday's Torah reading was in Deuteronomy, and discussed unclean animals.

יב וְזֶה, אֲשֶׁר לֹא-תֹאכְלוּ מֵהֶם: הַנֶּשֶׁר וְהַפֶּרֶס, וְהָעָזְנִיָּה ( Read more... )

torah, 中文, עברית, translation, 上古漢語

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[Multilingual Monday] Lost In Translation

aadroma Mar 30, 2009 23:04

In today's Multilingual Monday, we're going to look at things that were lost in translation from English into another language, causing an unintended different meaning from the source. I admit, I find these things fascinating, as so much in a language can be reliant on context or social interactions that a direct translation is certainly bound ( Read more... )

harry potter, books, multilingual monday, english, translation, español, spanish, russian, Русский

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熊人島

aadroma Sep 18, 2008 18:31

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shirts, translation, 藤本郷

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[Multilingual Monday] Old hanzi, Missing you

aadroma Jul 21, 2008 22:00

Okay, a quick Multilingual Monday as I'm majorly sleep deprived:
Okay, this Chinese character etymology page is VERY cool -- put in all sorts of hanzi (by either typing or pasting it into the window) and -- usually -- you will get pictures of the character's variants, in seal script to earlier bone script and earlier still oracle script. It's ( Read more... )