this drawing reminds me: read Translation as Transhumance (2017) by Mireille Gansel, trans. Ros Schwartz
Gansel recalls her life as a translator as one of smuggling words, ideas, lives, across walls erected by anti-human forces. Rescuing language from history, rescuing poetry from barbed wire & bombs that target not only humans but the very idea of their humanity
Unfortunately, most people won't even notice these issues when they read an automatically translated text, because it "sounds good"... That's why it takes a professional translator who actually understands the source text to see what has gone wrong.
Ik lees nu ‘Grijze bijen’, over een man die in de grijze zone tussen Rusland en Oekraïne is achtergebleven. In de lente vertrekt hij met zijn bijen naar de Krim. Goed verteld! #literatuur#lezen#boeken @boeken
@AdamBishop I'm not so sure writers and translators will soon be replaced by AI, unless of course we don't mind having to wade through thick layers of online slime...
@AdamBishop I have already had instructions from clients to "ignore the current content on our website, it's not very good". Not sure whether that content was produced by MT/AI or a bad translator, but it showed they (still) demand quality.
@OliverCzulo@AdamBishop That division already started with MT, before the AI hype. Maybe some people thought AI would be better, but I think they are discovering it's not as intelligent as it claims to be.
@SAS1954@boeken Robert Galbraith is een pseudoniem van JK Rowling. Onder deze naam heeft ze inmiddels 7 detectives geschreven. Ik vind ze persoonlijk erg goed.
@SAS1954@boeken Gewoon een keertje proberen. 😉 Het eerste deel is The Cuckoo's Calling (in het Nederlands vertaald als Koekoeksjong, door Sabine Mutsaers). De verhalen staan op zich, maar het achtergrondverhaal over detective Cormoran Strike is beter te volgen als je ze in volgorde leest.
Received a proposal for a long-term #translation project that sounded legit. Looked up the company on Payment Practices: several reports of people who were never paid for their work, so basically a scammer.
For those who don't know Payment Practices: it's an online database with information about companies offering translation services. For an annual fee of €28 you can access the database and add your own experience with agencies. Well worth it to avoid scams that could cost you hundreds of euros...
Eugen Rochko recently posted a thought:
"I think it comes down to, AI has no place in the arts. Machine-generated art has the appearance of what it is emulating, but no substance. Like cake made entirely of fondant. Or cardboard."
'Aiono' replied: "Also even if it could, like why would you automate one of the most entertaining part of being a human?"
And replace 'writing' with 'translation'. Because contrary to what a lot of people think translation isn't just a matter of replacing words or phrases. It takes creativity to produce a translation that reflects the style and images of the original, especially with creative texts, such as books (both fiction and non-fiction).
@jake2@RogerRemacle@bookstodon Absolutely. Also, translators spot mistakes in the source text and correct them, and where necessary/appropriate adapt the translation to the target audience. No machine can do that.