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"Abra Ancliffe is an artist working primarily in printmaking & drawing, and is based in Portland, Oregon. She is interested in how language and architecture intersect, the beauty in gaps & voids and translations of translations. She received her MFA in printmaking from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and her BFA in printmaking from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Abra teaches in the BFA and Continuing Education programs at PNCA."

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24 days ago by robertogreco

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Everything you know lost in translation - Bobulate

"Japanese used to have a color word, ao, that spanned both green and blue. In the modern language, however, ao has come to be restricted mostly to blue shades, and green is usually expressed by the word midori (although even today ao can still refer to the green of freshness or unripeness — green apples, for instance, are called ao ringo). when the first traffic lights were imported from the United States and installed in Japan in the 1930s, they were just as green as anywhere else. Nevertheless, in common parlance the go light was dubbed ao shingoo, perhaps because the three primary colors on Japanese artists’ palettes are traditionally aka (red), kiiro (yellow), and ao. The label ao for a green light did not appear so out of the ordinary at first, because of the remaining associations of the word ao with greenness.

But over time, the discrepancy between the green color and the dominant meaning of the word ao began to feel jarring. Nations with a weaker spine might have opted for…"

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4 weeks ago by robertogreco

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The Shelf Life: "Translation as Detour"

"Professor Rubin shared one anecdote that involved his current project translating the first two volumes of 1Q84 for Haruki Murakami. He assured us that this isn't a spoiler, but some of the characters see two moons in the sky. These folks are in the minority, as everyone else sees a single moon. But in Japanese, there is no distinction between plural and singular nouns. So the struggle, for him, has become sorting out how many moons each character sees. It occurs to me that only a certain kind of person will think that's funny, or even remotely interesting, but I'm absolutely of that variety."

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february 2012 by robertogreco

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russell davies: subtle fail

"Thus far this sign has been my most productive inspiration. It seems to have a speculative, fantastic layer and a cautionary one.

The speculative layer is about objects with intention and behaviour. This restaurant is trying to stay close to you, it caused some un-named inconvenience in the past. Its owners (trainers? suppliers? workers? subjects?) are sorry about that. Sentient restaurants! Good.

The cautionary layer is about the weirdness that comes from software that tries to solve problems. In this instance what happens when spellcheck meets people who don't speak English as their first language? You get something that seems right but isn't, you get SUBTLE FAIL, which is more intriguing and dangerous than EPIC FAIL

SUBTLE FAIL is going to be interesting in a world of 3D printing and the internet of things."

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february 2012 by robertogreco

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United_Sounds group on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

"With translations in 370+ languages, building the largest collection of audio recordings of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights" 
 
[More info: http://blog.soundcloud.com/2011/07/25/community-fellowship-by-alexandra-stiver/ ]

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august 2011 by robertogreco

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The Thousand Nights and a Night
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august 2011 by robertogreco

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Dymaxion: Transnationality and Performance

"…I crossed an international border to install an app on my cellphone. That wasn't the nominal purpose of the trip, but if we step back from our understanding of internationalization & international copyright law, that interaction btwn border crossing & the performance of an effectively physical act is almost surreal. More surreal is possibility…that I could have simply traded my Icelandic SIM card for my US one &…effectively, virtually, performed that border crossing…

Like everyone else, my life is bound up mostly w/ those of some few hundred other people, & lived in a specificity of place mostly across some few square km. Unlike many other people, the future is rather more heavily salted into it, & that space is split over various countries. It is unclear if transnational culture or border performance will win, or how long a compromise of ever-increasing osmotic pressure can last. I dearly hope…immediate awareness of our ultimate interconnectedness will triumph regardless."

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july 2011 by robertogreco

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Douglas Hofstadter - Wikipedia

"Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics." 
 
"Both inside and outside his professional work, Hofstadter is driven by a pursuit of beauty. He seeks beautiful mathematical patterns, beautiful explanations, beautiful typefaces, beautiful sonic patterns in poetry, and so forth. Hofstadter has said of himself, "I'm someone who has one foot in the world of humanities and arts, and the other foot in the world of science.""

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april 2011 by robertogreco

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The following is from Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut (22 January 2003, Interconnected)

"Paul Slazinger…non-fiction…The Only Way to Have a Successful Revolution in Any Field of Human Activity. 
…most people cannot open their minds to new ideas unless a mind-opening team w/ peculiar membership goes to work on them. Otherwise, life will go on exactly as before, no matter how painful, unrealistic, unjust, ludicrous, or downright dumb… 
…team must consist of three sorts of specialists…Otherwise, the revolution, whether in politics or the arts of the sciences or whatever, is sure to fail. 
…rarest…authentic genius — person capable of having seeminly good ideas not in general circulation. 'A genius working alone is invariably ignored as a lunatic.' 
…second…highly intelligent citizen in good standing in his or her community, who understands & admires the fresh ideas of the genius, & testifies that the genius is far from mad… 
…third…person who can explain anything, no matter how complicated, to the satisfaction of most people, no matter how stupid or pigheaded they may be…"

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january 2011 by robertogreco

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Adding Bookmarklets on iPad and iPhone

"I made this page out of frustration. There is simply no easy way to add bookmarklets to your iPad or iPhone. I blagged a little about that here. 
 
I don't use Safari on my desktop, so I don't sync my bookmarks to my iDevices. So I took a few minutes to copy the Javascript from all my bookmarklets and made this iPhone/iPad formatted page with all the Javascript in a selectable textarea for each bookmarklet. This way I could open up the page on my gadgets, and in about 5 minutes have all of my important bookmarklets loaded into Safari on both my iPad and my iPhone. 
 
I know this is far from ideal, and even further from anything resembling a solution, but until some smart person comes up with a way around this, or until Apple adds some better bookmark management or add-on capabilities to mobile Safari this will have to do for now."

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january 2011 by robertogreco

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Word Lens

"Real time translating app. Turn your iPhone into the dictionary of the future — now!" [See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs ]

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december 2010 by robertogreco

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20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from Around the World [via: http://caterina.net/wp-archives/39]

"1. Toska [Russian]: At deepest & most painful…sensation of great spiritual anguish, often w/out any specific cause. At less morbid levels…dull ache of soul, longing w/ nothing to long for… 
 
2. Mamihlapinatapei [Yagan (indigenous to Tierra del Fuego]: wordless, yet meaningful look shared by two people who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to start 
 
3. Jayus 
 
4. Iktsuarpok [Inuit]: “To go outside to check if anyone is coming.” 
 
5. Litost 6. Kyoikumama 7. Tartle 8. Ilunga 9. Prozvonit 10. Cafuné 11. Schadenfreude 
 
12. Torschlusspanik [German]: means “gate-closing panic,” but…refers to “the fear of diminishing opportunities as one ages." 
 
13. Wabi-Sabi 14. Dépaysement 
 
15. Tingo [Pasquense]: “act of taking objects one desires from house of a friend by gradually borrowing all of them.” 
 
16. Hyggelig 17. L'appel du vide 18. Ya'aburnee 
 
19. Duende: “the mysterious power that a work of art has to deeply move a person.” 
 
20. Saudade"

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december 2010 by robertogreco

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Rogue Semiotics » Love’s lemmas [On the death of Stanislaw Lem]

"Lem…didn’t really see himself as doing science fiction. 
 
Reading Lem in English was always a curious experience. Whole books are predicated on fecund streams of puns, portmanteau words & neologisms. He was fortunate in his translators, but the suspicion always lingered in the mind…that perhaps there was no Polish original, & that the translation was a free-flying construct boiling out from the mind of the biggest computer in the world. 
 
But Lem was real, despite being denounced to the FBI by the increasingly paranoid Philip K. Dick as being a collective of communist writers aiming to subvert the USA. 
 
Lem was also second only to Borges in his creation of imaginary books. I recall my surprise on finally reading Solaris & finding that much of it is a survey of various (invented) books. There ought to be a term for this tendency: bibliofantasism? What’s unarguable is that a list of books invented by Lem would be almost as interesting as his books themselves."

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december 2010 by robertogreco

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How I got lost in translation and found my true calling | feature | Books | The Observer [via: http://ayjay.tumblr.com/post/1714062773/if-there-is-such-a-thing-as-world-literature-it]

"If there is such a thing as world literature, it is because today’s most interesting writers are also well‑travelled readers & a lot of what they read is in translation. An up-&-coming Colombian novelist might be inspired not just by Borges, Conrad & Faulkner, but by contemporary novelists from Asia, Africa & Europe; his literary response to their work will go on to influence what his contemporaries on the other side of the world write next. These complex patterns of cross-fertilisation would end overnight if it were not for literary translators & publishers who support them. So you’d think people would thank us, wouldn’t you? 
 
Well, sometimes they do, but in the next breath they’ll tell you what a terrible career move you’ve made. To a degree, they’re right, because the pay is pretty appalling. Although some translators get a sliver of the royalties, most work for a flat fee…"

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november 2010 by robertogreco

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Mamihlapinatapai - Wikipedia [via: http://blog.javierarce.com/post/1184610204/mamihlapinatapai]

"Mamihlapinatapai (sometimes misspelled mamihlapinatapei) is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word", and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It describes a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start. This could perhaps be translated more succinctly as "eye-contact implying 'after you...'". A more literal approximation is "ending up mutually at a loss as to what to do about each other"."

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september 2010 by robertogreco

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“Literal Translation” « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science.

"In one of the appendices, he talks about the challenge of translating Japanese, and offers up two sample translations of a paragraph in the Murakami short story “The 1963/1982 Girl from Ipanema.” He notes that while one version is awkward and the other smooth, both are linguistically equidistant from the original Japanese. The awkward version just has an “illusion of literalness” simply because it isn’t as good. 
 
Then Rubin offers up a real literal translation of the same paragraph. English loan words are in italics. I’m keying this in from the UK edition, thus the alternative spellings of the words “color” and “meter.”" [via: http://bobulate.com/post/997537595/the-illusion-of-literalness]

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august 2010 by robertogreco

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Twitter / Twitter Translation Community

"Twitter has become a valuable tool for folks to exchange timely bits of information, whether it be a momentous news event, a personal story, or a random thought. We want everyone in the world to have the opportunity to engage in this important exchange, so we're calling on the help of real Twitterers to translate our site into their own language. You've helped define what's important about the product, so you should define your local experience, too."

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august 2010 by robertogreco

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sevensixfive: Some Notes [A few favorites slected below]

"Moving between disciplines requires a special kind of work in translation and metaphor."

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august 2010 by robertogreco

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La trompeta de Deyá · ELPAÍS.com

"La perfecta complicidad, la secreta Inteligencia que parecía unirlos...Era difícil determinar quién había leído más y mejor, y cuál de los dos decía cosas más agudas e inesperadas sobre libros y autores. Que Julio escribiera y Aurora sólo tradujera (en su caso ese sólo quiere decir todo lo contrario de lo que parece claro está) es algo que yo siempre supuse provisional...

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august 2010 by robertogreco

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Frank Chimero

"I love you, Google Voice.

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july 2010 by robertogreco

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A Conversation With Dr. David Treece « On The Devil To Pay In The Backlands, or Grande Sertão: Veredas [See also: http://thedeviltopayinthebacklands.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/a-conversation-with-dr-luiz-f-valente/]

"I think what happens is that the translators who have translated Guimarães Rosa so far, somehow felt compelled to consciously or unconsciously tame the wildness of his writing, which is very unorthodox, which is very poetic in the end, it’s a prose that’s very close to the volatility of poetry, poetic language, and that’s what makes it extraordinarily unique. It’s pushing at the boundaries of what you can say in prose. What happens in the translations of the short stories, and probably what happens in The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, is that the poetry is transformed into prose, so that the sense of a world in transformation as a kind of magical, transformative experience, is lost and we’re left with the events, which sometimes are powerful enough to have some effect, but which, linguistically, at the level of the narration itself, the guts are taken out of it."

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july 2010 by robertogreco

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Latin American Literature Inclusion in the High School English Classroom [.pdf]
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july 2010 by robertogreco

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Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voices | Video on TED.com [script here: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/07/14/a-wider-world-a-wider-web-my-tedglobal-2010-talk/]

"Sure, the web connects the globe, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to help share the stories of the whole wide world. He talks about clever strategies to open up your Twitter world and read the news in languages you don't even know."

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july 2010 by robertogreco

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…My heart’s in Accra » A wider world, a wider web: my TEDGlobal 2010 talk [video here: http://blog.ted.com/2010/07/listening_to_gl.php]

"world is much wider than we generally perceive it....Tools like twitter can trap us in...“filter bubbles”–internet is too big to understand, so we get picture of it that’s similar to what our friends see...wider world is click away, but we’re usually filtering it out...wasn’t how it was supposed to work...in 1970s, 35-40% of average nightly newscast focused on international stories...now 12-15%...same phenomenon in quality US newspapers...pays far closer attention to wealthy nations than poor ones...Most media show this GDP bias...internet isn’t flattening world as Nicholas Negroponte thought it would...making us “imaginary cosmopolitans”

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a m l - on translation [great piece by Ana María León that meanders back and forth between English y español]

"for the past few days i’ve been doing research at the cca, as part of a month’s long grant. already living in montreal becomes an constant bilingual challenge, but working at the cca brings the task of translation to another level. with italian, brazilian, spanish, mexican, and french (and one ecuadorian!) scholars doing research in the same place, our conversations constantly switch from language to language. politeness often makes us change language with the arrival of a new colleague—often at the expense of the flow of conversation. it is, of course, extremely fun and stimulating, but it foregrounds the bumps and wrinkles that translation involves, not only between languages, but also between disciplines and even research schools."

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july 2010 by robertogreco

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Borges – Anagrammatically
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may 2010 by robertogreco

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Official Google Blog: A new look for Google Translate

"Along with our shiny new layout, these new features should make it faster and easier for you to translate text between our 2550 language pairs:

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november 2009 by robertogreco

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…My heart’s in Accra » Jonathan Lyons on the Islamic resolution of science and monotheism

"This led him to the exploration of Islam’s influence on what we think of as western science and society. He focuses in particular on Adelard of Bath, wondering what kind of person goes to the Holy Land during the crusades not to kill, but to learn Arabic and bring back that scholarship?

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july 2009 by robertogreco

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Speech Recognition iPhone App Translates Arabic On the Fly | Popular Science

"Speech technology is advancing quickly; even smartphones offer apps that let you speak commands and perform voice-activated searches. Now, a new app for iPhone and Blackberry can convert spoken Arabic into spoken English (and vice versa). The mobile app's speed of processing and accuracy is unprecedented for such a complex and different pair of languages."

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july 2009 by robertogreco

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Mind Your Language

"The difficulty applies the other way round too. English-speakers are keen to say please politely in other languages, even if those languages do not express politeness by constantly saying please. So English tourists say ‘por favor’ to waiters and barmen in a way that sounds too insistent to a Spaniard. It is as if someone were to say: ‘A glass of wine, if you please, my good man.’ If you want the butter passed in Spanish, you say, ‘Pass the butter.’ To add por favor can smack of impatience."

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march 2009 by robertogreco

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McCulture

"Americans have developed an admirable fondness for books, food, and music that preprocess other cultures. But for all our enthusiasm, have we lost our taste for the truly foreign?"

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february 2009 by robertogreco

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Tate Britain | Current Exhibitions | Altermodern - Altermodern Manifesto POSTMODERNISM IS DEAD [via: http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2009/02/so-long-post-we.html]

"A new modernity is emerging, reconfigured to an age of globalisation – understood in its economic, political and cultural aspects: an altermodern culture *Increased communication, travel & migration are affecting the way we live *Our daily lives consist of journeys in a chaotic and teeming universe *Multiculturalism and identity is being overtaken by creolisation: Artists are now starting from a globalised state of culture *This new universalism is based on translations, subtitling and generalised dubbing *Today’s art explores the bonds that text and image, time and space, weave between themselves *Artists are responding to a new globalised perception. They traverse a cultural landscape saturated with signs and create new pathways between multiple formats of expression and communication. The Tate Triennial 2009 at Tate Britain presents a collective discussion around this premise that postmodernism is coming to an end, and we are experiencing the emergence of a global altermodernity."

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february 2009 by robertogreco

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iPhone apps round-up: Future Apps rolls out speech-based translators | iPhone Central | Macworld

"When you’re trying to pick up the nuances of a different language, it’s one thing to see how a phrase translates from English to another tongue, but it’s quite another to hear how to pronounce something properly. That’s the idea behind Future Apps’ newly released line of iSpeak translation-language learning tools for the iPhone and iPod touch."

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february 2009 by robertogreco

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A translator's task – to disappear | csmonitor.com

""He was a geographically obsessed writer, especially when it came to Mexico City. He always told you exactly where he was going – down to the street, the intersection, the building," Wimmer remembers. "Café La Habana, for instance, was the basis for Café Quito," an important set piece in "The Savage Detectives." (The book, which traces the literary and political adventures of two ambitious poets, is partly autobiographical.)

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january 2009 by robertogreco

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eduFire - Live Video Learning

"We have a simple (but not easy) mission: Revolution education.

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december 2008 by robertogreco

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Mother 3 fan translation available this week - DS Fanboy [see also: http://www.flickr.com/photos/klara/2953342671/]

"After almost two years of hard slog, Starmen.net's Mother 3 fan translation patch has finally been completed, and will be released at the end of this week ... a whole month ahead of schedule! That's according to the latest blog entry on the project's site, in which team member Mato records that, "Testing's pretty much over now. Some bugs did turn up over the last few days, but they were all minor and quickly remedied. Some really hard-to-spot typos were also found and fixed."

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october 2008 by robertogreco

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Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Translate now for iPhone

"Google Translate for iPhone is optimized for speed, supports all of the existing Google Translate language pairs, and uses a client-side data-store on your iPhone to hang on to your past translations so you always have them at hand, even if you can't use the local data network."

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august 2008 by robertogreco

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The Caracas Speech by Roberto Bolaño - Triple Canopy - The first complete English translation of the Chilean novelist's 1999 speech accepting the Rómulo Gallegos Prize.

"What’s true is that I am Chilean, and I am also a lot of other things. And having arrived at this point, I must abandon Jarry and Bolivar and try to remember the writer who said that the homeland of a writer is his tongue."

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july 2008 by robertogreco

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Mamihlapinatapai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word"

"describes a look shared by 2 people with each wishing the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start...more succinctly "eye-contact implying 'after you...'... "ending up mutually at a loss as to what to do about e

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july 2008 by robertogreco

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Google Releases AJAX Language API - ReadWriteWeb

"Google today opened up the machine translation software they implemented on their own Google Translate site via a public API. The AJAX Language API allows developers to perform translations in their applications for all 13 supported languages and 29 tran

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march 2008 by robertogreco

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Drunken Boat | 9 | Winter 2007

"2 “mistranslations”...part of larger project that consists of mistranslatingpoems from languages I do not know well or at all...without dictionary assistance & without consulting native speakers. They are what I imagine the poems to be or I what I wi

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february 2008 by robertogreco

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Matt Webb on movement as a metaphor for the web (Webb 2.0?) (kottke.org)

""resistance in contemp society to trying out ideas...New ideas...accepted or rejected...choices vigorously defended. If it's going to help figure something out, why not look at problem from every possible angle? kottke.org = big part of my process of idea scaffolding. I don't necessarily agree or disagree with everything I link to1 but reading articles and then describing them to others is a good way to continually wonder, "Gosh, isn't it interesting to think about the world this way?"

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february 2008 by robertogreco

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Slide 1 of 41 (Movement, S&W)

"more I work with designers who have been through design school – trained particular way of thinking – more I know I’m not one...have to fake being designer quite a lot...how to articulate approaches designers take for granted...constantly make myself idea scaffolding.

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february 2008 by robertogreco

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Language Guesser

"Languid is a statistical language identifier. Give it at least 20 characters of UTF-8 encoded text and hope for the best."

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january 2008 by robertogreco

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Los Mono - Promesas - Lyrics Translation - Chileno, Chile Travel Blog, Life in Santiago

"While looking for the Los Mono - Promesas lyrics translated into English...augmenting/editing online translation found, I realized there's even more Chilean vernacular...the intensity of the morality of the message, too, seems to be distinctly Chilean."

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november 2007 by robertogreco

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Top 60 Japanese buzzwords of 2007 ::: Pink Tentacle

including "39. Monster parents [モンスターペアレント]: The term “monster parents” refers to Japan’s growing ranks of annoying parents who make extravagant and unreasonable demands of their children’s schools."

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november 2007 by robertogreco

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lingro: multilingual dictionary and language learning site

"Enter website to make all words on page clickable for definiions/translations. Each word you translate is saved in personal word history...create lists of vocabulary you'd like to learn from your word history...play games to review your vocabulary"

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november 2007 by robertogreco

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Language Log: Autour-du-mondegreens: bunkum unbound

"One lesson to learn from these subtitling efforts is how easy it is to find non-systematic phonetic similarities across languages, of the sort that Daniel Cassidy has used to see the relationship between bunkum and Buanchumadh and more broadly to argue t

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november 2007 by robertogreco

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» How to Learn (But Not Master) Any Language in 1 Hour (Plus: A Favor)

"How is it possible to become conversationally fluent in one of these languages in 2-12 months? It starts with deconstructing them, choosing wisely, and abandoning all but a few of them. Consider a new language like a new sport."

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november 2007 by robertogreco

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Saudade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [top ten favorite word + missing in English]

"a feeling of longing for something that one is fond of, which is gone, but might return in a distant future. It often carries a fatalist tone and a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might really never return."

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Lost in Translation

"What happens when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth between 5 different languages?"

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september 2007 by robertogreco

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PingMag - Dream Job: Manga Translator

"The thing is: I quit school so I didn’t have a high school diploma. But I knew that in Bologna they did a Japanese course. I went there to a university professor and told him that I really wanted to study Japanese."

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Emol.com - Fanáticos tradujeron al español el último libro de Harry Potter y lo subieron a internet

"La traducción, que comenzó dos días después de que fue lanzado a nivel mundial el libro en inglés, se terminó ayer, cuando se postearon en el blog los ocho últimos capítulos y el epílogo."

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LEXIQUETOS

"Tu nombre en otros sistemas de escritura"

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IBM - Five innovations that will change the way we live over the next five years - United States

1. healthcare, 2. real time speech translation 3. 3D Internet 4. micromanaged environment 5. mind-reading phones

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Language Line® Services- Your World, Your Language
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Words Without Borders

"The Online Magazine for International Literature"

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Wired 14.12: Me Translate Pretty One Day

"Spanish to English? French to Russian? Computers haven't been up to the task. But a New York firm with an ingenious algorithm and a really big dictionary is finally cracking the code."

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december 2006 by robertogreco

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Oxyrhynchus: "town of the sharp-snouted fish" - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The town was named after a species of fish of the Nile River which was important in Egyptian mythology as the fish that ate the penis of Osiris, though it is not known exactly which species of fish this is. One possibility is a species of mormyrid, mediu

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Microsoft sued by Chilean Indians over Windows translation - Nov. 23, 2006

"Chile's Mapuche Indians allege that Microsoft translated Windows software into their native language without getting tribal leaders' permission."

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English to French, Italian & Spanish Dictionary - WordReference.com
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dotSUB.com

"dotSUB is a resource and gathering place for subtitling films from one language into many languages using our unique subtitling tools. These tools expand the power and reach of films by making it possible for people to view and enjoy films in their nativ

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june 2006 by robertogreco

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YahooTranslatingProxy: Yahoo Translating Proxy

"This Yahoo Translating HTTP Proxy (YTP) is a two-way translator which works with your Yahoo! Messenger to translate your typed message into various languages. Your friend will receive translated message, and she can type back in the translated language.

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january 2006 by robertogreco

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