I was wandering around the ocean of links and more links, when I found a blog called Flabbertech, which announces enthusiastically that “the simultaneous translator is almost a reality”. There is a Star Trek quote and then the blogger asks us what is surely meant to be a rhetorical question: Have you ever dreamt or even just [...]
Posts Tagged ‘The New York Times’
It’s Almost Like Star Trek! Or is it?
Posted in English, tagged Edward Luttwak, Emily Apter, Languages, Machine Translation, Star Trek, The New York Times, The Translation Zone, TRANSTAC on August 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Why Translation Matters, di Edith Grossman
Posted in Italiano, tagged Edith Grossman, News, Richard Howard, The New York Times, Traduzione letteraria, Why Translation Matters on April 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cito e traduco al volo un paio di passaggi tratti dalla recensione del libro di Edith Grossman, “Why Translation Matters”, pubblicata da Richard Howard su The New York Times: “[...] nell’amaro intruglio che i traduttori sono destinati a bere c’è una consapevolezza che redime, ovverosia che nonostante gli insulti e le imposizioni che deve sopportare [...]
Edith Grossman: Why Translation Matters
Posted in English, tagged Edith Grossman, Literary Translation, News, Richard Howard, The New York Times, Why Translation Matters on April 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A couple of passages from Richard Howard’s review of Edith Grossman’s “Why Translation Matters” on The New York Times: “[...] in the bitter concoction translators are fated to imbibe is the redeeming awareness that despite all the insults and impositions translation sustains in our culture, it is crucial to our sense of ourselves as human. [...]
