Literary translators! Our publisher, @twolinespress.com, is currently open for submissions for animal stories in translation (from any language) & the Stevns Translation Prize (for Vietnamese translators). As always, no submissions fees. For more info visit: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...

I did my part! Have you?

So nämlich. #Wienliebe

henlo #buchwien

Die in Wien lebende ukrainische Autorin Tanja Maljartschuk gibt ukrainische Klassiker in deutscher Übersetzung heraus - um der Abwesenheit ukrainischer Kultur entgegenzuwirken. topos.orf.at/archive-des-...

book translation deadline 2/2 for the year done and it feels like that time i closed all my tabs after finishing my grad thesis #xl8 #amtranslating

Having to talk about AI as if it’s a serious concern and not a money laundering scheme is taking years off my life

If you hold any kind of copyright on a published work, you can check here if it is one of the (mostly English-language) millions AI firm #Anthropic pirated to train their engine, in which case you could be entitled to infringement damages: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup.

Une seule rencontre cette semaine à la librairie Libertalia de Montreuil: vendredi 7, à 19h30. Avec l'illustratrice Hélène Aldeguer, pour parler de Tokyo 68, une BD qui revient sur un temps où le fond de l'air était rouge dans l'archipel japonais. editionslibertalia.com/catalogue/ho...

Falls sich wer gefragt hat, wann ein neues Buch von Kohei Saito @koheisaito.bsky.social auf Deutsch erscheint: Bald, siehe Bild :) Ich hab wieder das absolute Privileg, das Buch zu übersetzen.

The UN chief says 1.5C is dead. While I disagree that anyone not on the frontlines of climate breakdown gets to say this, let's assume he is correct and ask the question: Who killed it? Fossil fuels. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lieber @derstandard.at, dieses Buch ist nicht einfach auf Deutsch vom Himmel gefallen. Mit keinem Wort werden im Artikel die Übersetzerinnen erwähnt: Andrea Alvermann und Brigitte Große. Auch sie sind Teil des Werks. #namethetranslator #xl8

Zum Österreichischen Nationalfeiertag einfach mal allen Gastarbeiter:innen dankbar sein, dass sie das alles mitgemacht haben.

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We're hiring a full-time Engagement Editor—a new full time staff position in CAT's Communications Department. For more information, visit our site and apply by Oct. 31. www.catranslation.org/about/opport...

Mladosť a veda • Jarmila Dicová-Ondrejková, Mikuláš Dic • 1984  Keramická glazovaná mozaika je osadená nad hlavným vstupom do budovy Fakulty chemickej a potravinárskej technológie STU postavenej podľa projektu Jozefa Liščáka a Juraja Luptáka v roku 1984.

Frisch vom Blog: Freiberufliche #Übersetzer *innen sind keine Leibeigenen, auch wenn manche #Übersetzung sagenturen das gern so hätten #xl8 #translation cotelangues.com/de/freiberuf...

The idea that political neutrality is possible is a) not actually possible, and b) is *definitely* political.

Rekordalarm für unseren Planeten: 2024 gab es den größten Anstieg von CO₂ seit Beginn der Messungen. Wir erleben gerade den Anfang eines Klimakipppunktes, während wir gleichzeitig den Klimaschutz zurückfahren.

haven‘t spotted anything in my timeline to repost so: happy belated sentō day to everyone who celebrates and likes puns! (explainer for those not yet in the know: the word for bathhouse reads like the number 1010, hence the october 10 date.) #銭湯の日 #千十 #銭湯

The bank: "To protect you from fraud and errors, all money transfers will now require an exact name match." People with diacritics in their name: 😬

learned more about the realities of working as a translator from it than from multiple university degrees (which isn‘t in competition against the thrill and importance of academic approaches, just very different!) #xl8

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

i‘m not crying, you‘re crying

Ak mate chut, podporte prosim vyzvu obcianskej spolocnosti k prijatiu skodlivej novely ustavy. www.mojapeticia.sk/campaign/vyh...

How did you find your start as a literary #translator? I started pestering publishers with amazing books I‘d read in my languages. They usually said no (and still do to this day), but some had me translate other books for them. 🤷‍♀️ #xl8

"That chap on the desk? Oh, he's the _last_ client who suggested I do this 'for the exposure'."

🎉🎉🎉 Happy International Translation Day! Bonne Journée Mondiale de la Traduction ! ¡Feliz Día Internacional de la Traducción! #xl8 #translation #traduction #traducción

Sure, no problem. I can come up with a pun to match the visuals of glue and seaweed in a conversation about different vibes in music. Piece of cake. #AmTranslating

Klimakrise & Co werden mittlerweile so krass ignoriert, es gibt nicht mal Memes

意味飽和! Semantic satiation! That thing where a word loses all meaning in repetition has a name. #TranslationIsLearning

"Meine Frau hat sich erstmals mit der Onleihe-App beschäftigt. Dadurch habe ich einen umfassenden Auffrischungskurs in Sachen slowakische Flüche und Schimpfwörter erhalten." Ich lese zwischen den Zeilen, dass Sie diesen kostenlosen Zusatz-Service nicht zu schätzen wissen.

Did you know City of Asylum Bookstore specializes in translated and international works? Shop these new works in translation in store and online at cityofasylumbooks.org

Es gibt kaum einen Bereich, in dem Umverteilung von unten nach oben so unverblümt sichtbar wird wie im Bereich AI: Alle tragen etwas dazu bei, die Trainingsdaten sind von der gesamten Menschheit gemeinsam erstellt worden, den Profit dieser kollektiven Arbeit ernten dann ganz wenige.

Falschparken kostet 50€, Schwarzfahren 135€. Warum eigentlich?

Jeremy Tiang really hits the nail on the head here (as would be expected). Translation is caught between two forms of capitalist exploitation: using a per-word freelance structure to provide a bare minimum fee, and playing on its artistic nature to compel free ancillary labor alongside

So, is “genre-defying” now a genre?

Thank you, @bcmerchant.bsky.social, for giving translators a chance to speak their piece. I see a lot of replies and QRTs along the lines of "I'm glad I didn't finish my translation degree" or "This is all I know, am I really doomed?", so allow me to share a few thoughts:

Hello. Glacier Bay is looking for a Portuguese (European) → English translator to consult on a project. Relevant candidates, please reach out to [email protected] with the subject line: "Portuguese Translation" and details of your relevant (comics) translation background + experience.

me, after translating one (1) sentence from my current book project: お疲れ様 champ, time for a coffee break #xl8 #amtranslating

Toute l’AI résumée en un titre theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

luxury problem par excellence but: i just found out an obscure record i‘ve been trying to get my hands on for FIFTEEN YEARS had a few copies reissued last year, and of course they‘re all sold out by now. sometimes ignorance really is bliss, i‘ll go cry now bye

forget religion, i feel born again when i leave the house after several consecutive days spent as a hermit in the freelance translator cave

Just out on the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: instead of asking how to improve machine translation, we need to ask who are these improvements for ... @tazinabdullah.bsky.social in conversation with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot www.languageonthemove.com/the-social-i...

Jupiter and Saturn < Kopperu [= Kepler] tenmon zukai 刻白爾天文図解 (1808) @ kokusho.nijl.ac.jp/biblio/10036...

'It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.'

genAI saves time alright but at cost of actual learning

Pls help if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/support-is...

「どうなってんのよ。」 „Und jetzt?!“ #amtranslating #xl8 #和独翻訳

Filmmaker Dužan Duong's super debut Summer School, 2001 made a big impact at @KVIFF. Our conversation covers everything from why Vietnamese families often send their kids to the home country for a while to a new project scheduled for release in 2030. english.radio.cz/czech-vietna...