I just got the schedule for it. I think I'm dying. It also says the name of the thesis I have to comment on *_* At first it was an essay that looked interesting (judging by the name). It's called "What would poor Sweden be without Stieg Larsson? A translation of two articles from the Spanish magazine/newspaper El País with translator's comment". It ( Read more... )

...and I checked my email, and what was there if not some prettiful gifs :D I totally needed to see something pretty too, I've been reading about Toury's norms and I'm not sure I get what he's talking about. I've also been reading some Jorge Díaz, he makes much more sense and doesn't fill up page after page with poo.

Speaking of poo, I read a thesis ( Read more... )

I'm bored out of my skull *_* I've been studying for two straight days, and usually that would mean that I've been staring out into nothing for at least 50% of the time, but this time I've actually been studying. I think I've just about reached my weekly limit on how much semantics I can take.

The word "equivalence" is a word and phenomena that's ( Read more... )

"Moeyoken" arrived the other day, so I went to the bookstore to pick it up and I recently finished the first chapter of it. There are quite a few words that I need to look up, but I get gist of it and I've read it before.

( Trigger-warning: Thoughts on rape in literature.... )

I've been reading through old translations that I've done these past two years and my God, I suck at translating literature. I'm just too literal in my translations to make it work in my target language, it just messes up the flow, and it's like I forget that commas exist!
To top it off, I haven't read proper literature in Swedish in forever and it ( Read more... )