Against Fluency - Tetragrammaton
If we define language fluency as one’s proficiency to read, write and speak, then there’s a new need for the Rosetta Stone of the digital age.
Matt Klein • Why We Need The New Rosetta Stone for Gen Z
Before I went to graduate school for poetry, I went to graduate school for translation. For a while, I even thought of myself as a translator first, writer second. This did not last—I am not a very good translator—but the experience did form me as a reader and writer. Translators have to be accountable for every idiom, every reference, every syntac
... See moreThere needs to be a mindful approach in treating languages. In addition to translating word by word, there is a need to understand the local nuance of the words in a specific context.
Project Lima • Inclusive design in Southeast Asia
Literary texts tend to distort the linearity of narrative sequence, and to reproduce the coexistence and simultaneity of interiorized events that resist conventional linear chronology. The narrative thread unravels freely between past and present, between different temporal planes, combining high and low registers, erudite literary references, popu... See more
Translation as a Practice of Acceptance - Asymptote
Here is desire without responsibility, here are actions that make no promise of anything to anyone else, of making anything for anyone else, certainly not the promise of zero distortion (I don’t think this is a promise that the translator makes – that any translator would ever make, actually – but it is often the strange expectation that gets weigh
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