Translation - Topics

How do translations change a book's meaning? What makes a translation faithful rather than literal? Why is translation a humanistic act? Translating noir fiction and how much of the slang actually survives Translations of children's books change the names and sometimes the morals Translated fiction is having a moment in English and the translator's name still sits in small type Why does every translation of the Odyssey sound like a different poet wrote it Reading a classic in the original is a different book from reading it in translation Why translating a questionnaire is not enough for cross-cultural research Machine translation is quietly removing the reason to learn small languages Translating a poem means choosing which loss to accept Jokes almost never survive translation and workplace humour is where it shows Translation gaps: which women's genre fiction reaches English readers Translation slips that quietly changed a contract or a treaty Can wordplay survive translation? How do browser translation extensions handle an entire web page? Do blessings and curses only work in the original language? Do neural machine translation systems actually learn grammar? How do subtitle editors handle timing and line breaks? What is the difference between a glossary and a termbase? How do you build a termbase for a language with almost no written resources? How do you interpret a song into sign language without losing the meaning? Why do translated novels often read stiff and unnatural? Should a translator be allowed to fix a clumsy sentence in the original? Who decides which translated novel wins the International Booker Prize? How is the PEN Translation Prize judged differently from a fiction prize? Why do literary prizes now print the translator's name on the cover? How do translation contests choose between two equally good entries? Should scientific terms be translated or left in their original language? How do subtitle files declare which language they contain? How do legal translators keep terminology consistent across a long contract? Why is legal terminology so hard to carry into another language?