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A great accidental find. Whip clever and very funny insider gossip from The Industry, of the nasty kind you (shamefully) want but rarely get, by day player “Clunky Rutherford.” Head shot, Clunky! We need a head shot!
Recently, on a cheap film set, I heard a new one. Setting up a tracking shot, the director mysteriously called for his gaffer to execute a ‘Mickey Rooney’. A dolly shot. Moving slowly forward on the ‘tracks.’
“What’s that?”, I queried, being the object of attention after
“Oh, you know….’a little creep’...”
A brand new blog by members of the American Literary Translators’ Association (ALTA). Hurray, hurray; wonderfully compelling and eloquent views.
A terrific idea by author Bruce Holland Rogers: a subscription-based offer of three short stories a month for the bargain basement price of $5 a year. And, coming in January, French translations by the very fine Lionel Davoust. (Sole complaint: no print function. Thoughtful should be savoured off-screen.)
Oh, and I do hope you’ve all got your copy of resident genius Paul Ford’s dazzling first novel. With a name like that… I mean, come on. Plus it’s got that damn beautiful writing thing going for it. I hate you, Ford.
And, to conclude, possibly the dumbest story on translation I’ve read in some time:
TASK FORCE TO DESIGN STATE-OF-THE-ART TRANSLATION OF CITY WEBSITES
A Task Force was given the charge yesterday of making city website and printed translations make sense.
Website translation services, which arose popular but imperfect in recent years, too frequently render a bizarre disservice to San Franciscans who do business with the city online.
Indeed, early translation services noted caveat that they deliver ‘gist’ of meaning.
So, I take it that by “State of the Art” they mean translations performed by qualified translators. Vive la révolution !
“Oftentimes we’ll get translations that make no sense whatsoever…and just reads out as a bunch of nonsense and we’ve got to do better.”
I’m telling you, Clunky, they’re everywhere. Arse longa, indeed.
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