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Reading, writing and learning languages help to protect against dementia. So, obviously, does being rich. Hey ho. #langsky #xl8 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

On LinkedIn, some of my #translator pals have started sharing photos of themselves with a book, to counteract the awful AI-caricature thing that's also going round now. So, here I am, with the book that won the English PEN award, as I'm going to eat, sleep & breath it for the next few months! #xl8💙📚

On LinkedIn, some of my #translator pals have started sharing photos of themselves with a book, to counteract the awful AI-caricature thing that's also going round now. So, here I am, with the book that won the English PEN award, as I'm going to eat, sleep & breath it for the next few months! #xl8💙📚

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 307: Na dubině, built in 1925.

Leicester Cathedral held a wedding ceremony in sign language. In 1576. I'm not crying, you're crying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Alexandra Roesch for a translation from German of Boy With a Black Rooster by Stefanie vor Schulte (The Indigo Press)

Antonella Lettieri and editor Richard Village for a translation from Italian of Your Little Matter by Maria Grazia Calandrone (Foundry Editions)

Congratulations to the winner of the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for published translations from Arabic of full-length works of literary merit and general interest: Marilyn Booth for a translation of Honey Hunger: A Novel by Zahran Alqasmi (Hoopoe, American University in Cairo Press)

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 306: U Zátiší, built in 2007.

Buy your hard copies online from publishers or @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social Audio books from your library app or @libro.fm Ebooks from your library app or Kobo or direct from publishers 2nd hand from Biblio, Oxfam or World of Books

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

Something compelled me to make this

Don't buy books on Amazon Don't publish through Amazon

London Book Fair starts in a month's time, and I'm getting ready for it. I already have a few appointments, and I'm waiting for a number of #publishers to come back to me and say, yes, they'd love to meet me and to publish every book I want to #translate. +

Post a banger not in English: (If you want to get your Czech friends onto the dancefloor, this will do it!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaMq...

I might have just lost a client forever by telling them that EUR 0.06 per word was "way too low". I provide a professional service and I expect to be paid professional rates. This is not unreasonable. Some clients aren't worth keeping! #xl8 🌐

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 305: V Zátiší, built in 1925. It was looking a bit slippery when I was round here, so here you can see the street at the end, rather than a street sign.

Budapest was created out of the cities of Buda and Pest (and the oft-forgotten Óbuda). The place-name Pest likely comes from a Slavic word meaning 'oven, furnace' – compare Slovak pec. I find it strange that one of the cities had the alternative German name Ofen (literally 'oven'), but it was Buda!

London Book Fair starts in a month's time, and I'm getting ready for it. I already have a few appointments, and I'm waiting for a number of #publishers to come back to me and say, yes, they'd love to meet me and to publish every book I want to #translate. +

imagine being alive in this world and only wanting to know one language, what the fuck, boring

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 304: Československého exilu, built in 1979.

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 303: Pod Lysinami, built in 1991.

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Literary translator pals?? #xl8 🌐 #literarytranslation

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

OH, Look! Another game translated by magic! This right here is quite dangerous in these times. Why? By erasing us translators from our jobs it makes it easier to replace us with GenAI. We've always been invisible. That gave them a leverage in introducing MTPE and lowering our rates.

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 302: K dubinám, built in 1935.

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 301: K Zátiší, built in 1983.

Rather pleased with this! #langsky #linguistics #Lingule #1391 "odáz": 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🏆 lingule.xyz

To translate is to leave something, almost everything, out. Translation is a conscious process where the elements that are put aside are as important as those that we choose to keep. AI, thus, cannot translate because it is incapable of understanding the act of leaving behind.

Anyone??

Squee!! I am so excited to translate this incredible book! #xl8 #literarytranslation 🇸🇰 💙📚

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 300 and not nearly out of Prague 4 yet: V lučinách, built in 1925.

An extraordinary opportunity, and so heartening to see this support from UCL-SSEES for fragile yet extremely valuable fields of scholarship!

While I of course encourage you to buy the magazine – the New Welsh Review is a very good read – I do have a pdf of the story, if anyone would like it? Please let me know!

La vache qui rit or, as I like to call it, A moo's bouche. (Thank you, 6.35am brain.)

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 299 (yes, yesterday should have been 298 and not 297): Večerní, built in 1973.

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I’ve not followed up on the evidence in the article, but NG posted for the first time today about a project to exonerate him, by an apparently independent journalist. There’s a part of me that wants to believe that the allegations are false, because outwardly he was an advocate and an ally.

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 297: Jitřní, built in 1965.

It appears to be Hedgehog Day. Please appreciate this... unconventional Victorian fairy painting by Charles Altamont Doyle, father of AC Doyle. (artuk.org/discover/art...)

Very pleased and excited to announce that the forthcoming New Welsh Review contains a lovely story by Czech author Markéta Pilátová #inmytranslation! #xl8 #literarytranslation 🌐 💙📚

Today's #translation challenge: jedinečné butiky, or unique boutiques. I need something that sounds less ridiculous! One-of-a-kind? Unmatched? Unparalleled? I can't use exclusive (though they undoubtedly are), I need the you-can't-get-this-anywhere-else sense. Any suggestions? #amtranslating #xl8

Today's #translation challenge: jedinečné butiky, or unique boutiques. I need something that sounds less ridiculous! One-of-a-kind? Unmatched? Unparalleled? I can't use exclusive (though they undoubtedly are), I need the you-can't-get-this-anywhere-else sense. Any suggestions? #amtranslating #xl8