Showing posts with label Translation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Translation. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

The Aeneid, Book 1, Line 203

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…forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.  — Virgil (19 BCE)   An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of ...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Many Shadows of Lǐ Bái Drinking by Moonlight

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Tracy Lord (Katherine Hepburn) : There was a Chinese poet who was drowned while trying to kiss the moon in the river. He was drunk. George K...
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

"I am human: nothing human is alien to me"

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Homo sum : humani nihil a me alienum puto. Vel me monere hoc vel percontari puta: Rectum'st, ego ut faciam ; non est, te ut deterream. -...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Foolin' Around With Chinese: Translations of Children's Classics

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So I've been fooling around with Chinese. The difference between this and studying Chinese is that I'm not expecting it to go anyw...
Monday, July 18, 2011

"And the whole world was of one language and of one speech"

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A fun site I found last night ( via ) has the bible in multiple languages , formatted in parallel columns. This is not itself so rare, but ...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

Three Translations of Baudelaire's "L'Albatros" (Accidental Poetry Month, Part 19)

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I've mentioned before that I like comparing translations -- indeed, I've done two such posts recently. In this case, however, i...
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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Quote of the Day: the Value of Life

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Où que vostre vie finisse, elle y est toute. L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace, elle est en l'usage: tel a vescu long...
Friday, March 11, 2011

Poem of the Day (and Poetry Site of the Month)

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I recently stumbled upon a web site called Poems Found in Translation , run by a poet, linguist and polyglot * named A.Z. Foreman . It'...
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Saturday, February 26, 2011

An Ode to My Hometown... 's Namesake

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On being (delightfully!) contacted by an old friend who was passing through Ithaca, I was informed that this blog gave no indication of my c...
Friday, February 11, 2011

11/02/2011; or, Two Translations of Two Paragraphs of Le Grand Palindrome de Georges Perec

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What dates count as Palindromic dates depends on the dating system you use: in American usage, today is not a Palindrome, but in European...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

On the Vanished Translations of Georges Perec's La disparition

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A Vanishing: A Void, Vanish'd! I recently re-read ( for this ) the published English translation Georges Perec 's lipogrammatica...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Jacques Rouboud's "La Disparition" in English Translation

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The French edition of Georges Perec 's lipogramatic novel La Disparition begins with a poem ascribed (perhaps truthfully, perhaps fic...
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Sunday, June 20, 2010

Poem of the Day: Autopsychography

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Autopsychography The poet is a faker Who's so good at his act He even fakes the pain Of pain he feels in fact. And those who read his wo...
Friday, November 13, 2009

Quotes of the Day: Three Links in the Chain of Cultural Transmission

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Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper...
Sunday, March 01, 2009

Eugene Onegin in English: Comparing Translations

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One of my more neglected hobbies is comparing poetry translations. Because poetic translation is so over-constrained -- so that, in the word...
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