I Bet People Will Join Us
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I Bet People Will Join Us
Translators are people who can speak the “language” of two domains, cultures, or ways of thinking—and
Gorick Ng • The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right
Translation is the sum of its choices, choices that are more or less persuasive, more or less justifiable, but always subjective.
Daniel Hahn • Catching Fire: A Translation Diary (Untranslated Series)
“Content is part of a single and indistinguishable flow.”
Kyle Chayka • How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
Language, though, is tough and resilient, a tenacity backed up by a long history. Its autonomy cannot be lost or seriously damaged, however roughly it is handled. It is the right of all writers to experiment with the possibilities of language and expand the range of its effectiveness. Without that adventurous spirit, nothing new can ever be born.
Haruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation
translation can be a potently activist endeavour – not merely responsive, quiet, deferential. Translation is about making certain voices louder; about pushing at borders till they stretch; about poking at the cheap and easy idea that a national culture is monolithic, an idea that all translators know – all readers know – is hollow.
Daniel Hahn • Catching Fire: A Translation Diary (Untranslated Series)
I use the word hypertext because of Octavia Butler. She was interviewed around 1996 about hypertext. The guy who was speaking to her asked what she thought about the internet and what she thought about hypertext. She was like, “Oh, I don’t really use the internet like that, but I do believe in primitive hypertext.” It means that as she creates mate... See more