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I'm With Stupid: Joyce in China Bigger Than Hasselhoff in Germany

Todd Hartley | Posted 04.06.2013 | Comedy

Read More: Moby Dick, Literature, Tom Robbins, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, Ulysses, Books, All-Time Best Books, David Hasselhoff, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, Herman Melville, Translations, China, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Comedy News

I once read somewhere that James Joyce's novel Ulysses was the best book ever written, so a few years ago when I found an old copy for a dollar, I bought it.

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10 Ways Translation Shapes Your Life

Nataly Kelly | Posted 11.28.2012 | World

Read More: Politics, Language, Translation, Terrorism, Interpreting, 9/11, Foreign Language, Translation-Services, Translations, World News

Did you know that right this very minute, a massive translation project is scanning the international news to catch words that help identify and contain global health outbreaks, protecting the lives of you and your loved ones?

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Firefighters Use Flashcards To Understand Spanish-Speakers

Posted 07.02.2012 | Latino Voices

Axe? Check. Fire extinguisher? Check. Spanish flashcards? Er... Starting this week, firefighters in Knoxville, Tennessee will be adding one more to...

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Vatican Vandalism: The New English Translation of the Catholic Mass

John Pinette | Posted 01.23.2012 | Religion

Read More: Second Vatican Council, Catholic Church, Religion, Translations, Catholicism, Pope John Paul II, Religion News

The untimely new translation of the Mass is so impenetrable that one publisher just released a companion volume for priests with suggestions on where to pause and what words to emphasize, so that they prayers may be understood. Not the greatest endorsement of perceptive translation.

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20 Rules For Translating Literature

Arabic Literature (in English) | By Mlynxqualey | Posted 09.06.2011 | Books

Read More: Literature, Jonathan Wright, Translations, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Banipal Prize, Humphrey Davies, Translating Literature, Books News

When I first began gathering "rules for translating," in the vein of these "rules for writing" (and these), I was expecting newspapers and magazines t...

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How Translated Books Get Funded

nytimes.com | LARRY ROHTER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Foriegn Literature, Foriegn Books, Translated Books, Books in Translation, Translations, Translated Literatrue, Translation, Books News

Increasingly, that campaign is no longer limited to widely spoken languages like French and German. From Romania to Catalonia to Iceland, cultural ins...

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Why Is Emma Bovary So Misunderstood?

The New Republic | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

The author of minimalist short stories, Davis would seem an unlikely match for Flaubert, with his love of metaphor and obsession with detail. In compa...

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Dr. Seuss In Yiddish?

Boing Boing | Cory Doctorow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: One Fish Two Fish, Hebrew, Books, Children's Books, Translations, Dr. Seuss, Yiddish, Books News

Yiddish House press has translated several classic kids' books into Yiddish, a curious and wonderfully expressive language spoken mostly by Jews of Ea...

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Amazon To Publish Foreign Books In Translation In New AmazonCrossing Publishing Imprint

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Kindle, Book Publishing, Amazonencore, Amazon Publishing, Books, Ebooks, Amazon, Translations, Self-Publishing, Amazoncrossing, Books News

SEATTLE, May 18, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon.com, Inc. today announced a new publishing imprint, AmazonCrossing, which will introduce readers to vo...

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Translator Speaks Up For Translations

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Don Quixote, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ghost Writers, Translators, Why Translation Matters, Writing, Books, Translations, Edith Grossman, Books News

NEW YORK — If you're a fan of Gabriel Garcia Marquez or have purchased the latest edition of "Don Quixote," you might know the name Edith Grossm...

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Best Translated Book Awards Go To Israeli Novel And Russian Poetry Collection

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Genya Turovskaya, The Confessions of Noa Weber, Literary Prizes, Gail Hareven, Israel, Elena Fanailova, Books, Translated Books, Best Translated Books, Dalya Bilu, The Russian Version, Translations, Books News

NEW YORK — An Israeli novel and a collection of Russian poetry have won prizes for best English-language translation. Gail Hareven's novel "The...

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"Our Bodies, Ourselves": 40 Years on, Still Circling the Globe

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

There are some truths about women's health that may now seem self-evident, but perhaps would not be so obvious if it were not for the ideas espoused, starting so long ago, by "Our Bodies, Ourselves."

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TED Announces the Open Translation Project -- Bringing Subtitles in 40+ Languages to TED.com

TEDTalks | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Tamil, Urdu, Language, French, Crowdsourcing, TED.Com, Translations, Tedtalks, Subtitles, Spanish, Hindi, Media News

The TED Open Translation Project brings TEDTalks beyond the English-speaking world, by offering subtitles, time-coded transcripts, and the ability for volunteers to translate any talk into any language.

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