People across China have been very creative in past weeks in finding ways to get around the ban on an article that was critical of how the government handled the coronavirus ... Read more >
Was the removal of the Parthenon Marbles by Lord Elgin, who brought them to Britain in the early 19th century, "legal"? A leaked draft of EU paper stirs Parthenon marbles ... Read more >
Subtitles translate a film's dialogue into a written text superimposed on the screen, allowing viewers to read along while following the actors as they speak in their ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Translating the Classics was for centuries "men's work", writes US academic, historian and writer Erika Harlitz-Kern, in a recent article for The Week. (1) Historically, women were expected to translate the works of their contemporaries ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
At least 1500 interpreters and translators in the Netherlands are on strike as of the 13th of January and refuse to take work from the judiciary, police and immigration service. They are striking against government budget cuts, which ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
The conversion of verbs into nouns is called "nominalisation" (the opposite, turning nouns into verbs, is called "verbing" or "denominalisation"). There are two types of nominalisation. The first involves adding a suffix: the verb "to investigate" produces ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
One year ago one Danina Lupsa, who is a translation technologist and translation project manager for cApStAn, wrote an article for our blog in which she deplored the lack of legal protection for the translating ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
"Far-right leaders often call for one nation united under one language but, at the same time, they have always been good at using translation to spread their politics". This is the opening line of a recent ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Four out of the six shortlisted books for the 2019 "Warwick Prize for Women in Translation", and four out of five for the 2019 US "National Book Awards" for translated literature, do not mention the translator ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
"Translation removes language barriers and makes stories borderless", says Chen Jiatong, author of "The White Fox", recently translated from Chinese to English, in article for Booktrust.org. There is, however, no mention of the translator on ... Read more >