Category Archives: French

El color de la traducció

Posted on 02.11.2018 by Carles Prado

Aquesta és la primera de les tres pàgines de bibliografia que Marià Manent afegeix al final de les seves “interpretacions” de poesia xinesa al castellà que publica el 1942 sota el títol El color de la vida. Durant gran part … Continue reading →

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International grievances

Posted on 23.09.2018 by Richard Samson

A whole host of things can go wrong in a translation project. Translators accept that occasional mistakes are hard to avoid and hope they go undetected. After all, if nobody notices, who is to say that a mistake has been … Continue reading →

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Les dictionnaires adoptent de nouveaux mots

Posted on 08.06.2018 by Claude Carcenac

Une grand-mère dit à sa petite fille: ” Si tu me donnes un “schmutz” (un baiser), je te donne un “bredele” (gâteau alsacien) “. Ce dialogue est-il entendu dans l’Alsace profonde où le “globish” (anglais au vocabulaire limité) n’est pas … Continue reading →

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El mundo anglosajón

Posted on 20.02.2018 by Richard Samson

¿Hay expresiones que te irritan? Seguramente, sí. Una de las expresiones que me fastidia es el mundo anglosajón (o la variante países anglosajones). Lo explico. Primero, hay que decir que la expresión es totalmente correcta. El Diccionario de la lengua española … Continue reading →

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Translating Harry Potter

Posted on 07.12.2017 by Richard Samson

This year 2017 has seen the twentieth anniversary of the publication of the first book in the Harry Potter saga, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, which came out in June 1997. The series went on to break all records … Continue reading →