Translation - Topics

What makes a language sacred enough that it must never be translated? How do translators handle a language with no gender-neutral option? Can a translation app really carry a doctor's appointment? Can you become a literary translator without a degree in translation? What is the difference between a literal translation and a faithful one? What happens when a ritual formula is translated for a modern congregation? Why is machine translation fine for menus and terrible for poetry? Women translators and the books they smuggled into English At what point does machine translation beat a human translator? How do translators handle puns that have no equivalent in the target language? Is translation possible between languages that carve up the world differently? Why do brand slogans often fail when they are translated literally? Why do idioms almost never translate word for word? Is translated poetry worth reading when the sound is lost? Do professional translators still get paid by the word? How do you translate a word that simply does not exist in the other language? How do subtitles compress dialogue without losing the meaning? Why do fluent bilinguals still hire translators for legal documents? Why do some revived languages end up sounding like translations of the dominant one? How do you compare languages with totally different writing systems? How does Babel by R. F. Kuang turn translation into magic?