Metaglossia: The Translation World

Plus tôt aujourd’hui, le Conseil des Arts du Canada a dévoilé les noms des 14 lauréats des 75e Prix littéraires [...]...

More than 20 years ago I was at a carol service where the readings were taken from the Good News Bible. The Wise Men had become, in a sub-heading, “Visitors from the East” (why not tourists?

"Through Black Spruce" a novel by Canadian writer Joseph Boyden has been rendered into Persian by Mohammad Javadi.

In the US and UK, the word “translation” is often an instant buzz-kill for publishers. Most consider translation synonymous with “challenging,” and thus a turn-off for the average reader.

The English and French awards, given by the Canada Council for the Arts, celebrate Canadian authors in seven categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature (text and illustration) and translation.

Irish language version of Frank McCourt’s ‘Angela’s Ashes’ launched in NYC – VIDEO...

The new English translation of the Mass, meant to reflect the original Latin text more closely, is the product of eight years of work by an international commission of bishops. The final text was released this summer, and churches across the U.S. must begin using it on Nov. 27.
The textual changes do not affect hymns or other stand-alone songs that can be inserted in the order of the Mass, but they do affect the prayers that are sung or recited at every Mass, called "ordinaries."
That means composers have had to write completely new musical settings or adapt old ones for the ordinaries. According to Hilgartner, the musical options are as diverse as before, ranging from chant to contemporary styles.

Décimo aniversario de unas jornadas poéticas que comenzaron en Calaceite (Teruel) promovidas por el escritor y traductor Ángel Crespo. Juan Luis Panero pronuncia hoy miércoles en el Ateneu Barcelonès la conferencia inaugural de una edición centrada este año en las tradiciones métricas en la modernidad. El programa prosigue el jueves 17 con Guillermo Carnero y Salvador Oliva, que abordarán la construcción de la tradición poética occidental y recitarán sus versos junto a Marina Oroza.

La Iglesia prepara nueva "Biblia latinoamericana": una traducción de las Sagradas Escrituras con un lenguaje simple y moderno en la que se incluirán palabras de uso común en la región.

“La poesía ya es una traducción, de la lengua materna a otra –sea ésta el francés o el alemán, da lo mismo–. Para el poeta no existe la lengua materna. Escribir versos significa traducir.

Zhao es pionero en la traducción al chino de la literatura de América latina y, en especial, de la poesía.

Amante mítico de 132 mujeres y extraordinariamente galante y caballeroso, según decía él mismo; alquimista, ocultista y tramposo burlanga, para sus numerosas víctimas; hedonista pagano, ciudadano del mundo, viajero romántico y escritor hiperrealista antes de tiempo; traductor de la Ilíada y posible coautor del libreto de Don Giovanni, presidiario demasiado habitual, acosado por la Inquisición, autor mucho más estimable que estimado, Giacomo Girolamo Casanova tardó 10 largos años en redactar su autobiografía.

A while ago I was asked to review a press release that had been translated from the original English into German. It had been rejected by the Country Manager as “not fit for purpose”. He consid...

In Facebook Pages, posts like Status Messages in languages other than English can be translated using an inline translation powered by Bing. Click the translate link under the post, as shown in the...

Telos Press looks forward to publishing Democratic Contradictions of Multiculturalism by Jens-Martin Erikson and Frederik Stjernfelt, scheduled to appear in March 2012. This article originally appeared in German in Jungle World and in English translation at signandsight.com.
It is with an increasing feeling of queasiness that I have followed the incidents surrounding the Parisian weekly Charlie Hebdo and its special issue on the sharia, which was inspired by the political developments in Libya and Tunisia.

An Arabic inscription referring to the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II has finally been translated, referring to Jesus the Messiah, archaeologists say.

Palm Beachers will join the rest of the United States and other English-speaking countries in using a new translation of the Mass on Nov. 27, which marks the beginning of Advent. Church leaders say the new translation better reflects the original Latin text and is more in line with what the rest of the world is saying in their respective languages.

“The rest of the world did a great job in translating,” said the Rev. Brian King, director of liturgy for the Diocese of Palm Beach. “We did not. We only translated the basic meaning and not word for word. For the last 40 years, all English- speaking Catholic churches have been using that translation.

Baltimore MD (SPX) Nov 15, 2011 -
The greatest astronomical discovery of the 20th century may have been credited to the wrong person. - ... Lemaitre's discovery went unnoticed because it was published in French, in a rather obscure Belgian science journal called the Annales de la Societe Scientifique de Bruxelles (Annals of the Brussels Scientific Society).

The story would have ended there, except that Lemaitre's work was later translated and published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. When published in 1931, some of Lemaitre's own calculations from 1927, of what would be later called the Hubble Constant, were omitted!

The fact that paragraphs were missing from the translated paper has been known (although not widely) since 1984. There has been persistent speculation among astronomers over "who dunnit?" Did the Monthly Notices editors cut the paragraphs out? Did Edwin Hubble himself have an influencing hand and censor the paper to eliminate any doubt that he was the original discoverer of the expanding universe?

Edwin Hubble has been credited for discovering that the universe was expanding. Belgian priest and cosmologist Georges Lemaître actually discovered this earlier but it turns out he left out the key equations when he translated his own paper.

Le nom de cette ancienne entreprise américaine ne vous dit peut-être rien. Elle a pourtant contribué à modifier radicalement le cours des échanges internationaux de marchandises au XXe siècle.

BANGALORE: The Bangalore Tamil Sangam has come up with an initiative of translating famous Kannada works into Tamil and vice versa..

Missal changes amount to dozens of short, new phrases for congregation

By Patricia Zapor/Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON (CNS) — When the first Sunday of Advent rolls around Nov. 27 and English-language Masses in the United States are all supposed to follow the updated language in the third edition of the Roman Missal, people’s tongues will undoubtedly trip over some of the changes.

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A Trojan surprise

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Stephen Mitchell reinvigorates Homer's Iliad with a bold new translation

On Nov.6, before I had a chance to read The Gazette, a colleague asked me about the new translation of the Catholic Mass that has caused such anxiety among...