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15 Apr 2024
Synergies between authors and translators have never been stronger, or more important, as evidenced by the presentations of fellow panelists exploring the problems and the endless possibilities. Such a pleasure to hear all angles on the issues.
8 Apr 2024
First panel, The Impact of AI on Authorship: with
Mary Rasenberger, The Authors Guild (Chair)
Andrew Foglia, US Copyright Office
Umair Kazi, The Authors Guild
Steven Levy, Journalist, WIRED Magazine
Alison Rodriguez, International Federation of Translators
Michelle Woods, WIPO
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23 Feb 2024
“One of the greatest strengths of Lababidi’s aphoristic works is how he can follow pithy phrases and witty twists to clichés with absolutely arresting images that also carry immense philosophical weight.” – Z. McGrew
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5 Dec 2023
This epic map shows how words spread along trade routes across the world. Look what a journey the word #tomato had! I love this one! Source: buff.ly/2UuFADL
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30 Sep 2023
Special thanks to #SATI23 Sth Africa& ATIM Mozambique for hosting, & APTIC Cameroun, EAITA Kenya, ASTRA Senegal for warm welcome/excellent company. Excellent Keynote by @FMFederici & Pious Manna, Sierra Leone!
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@ATIM_MTIA
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#xl8 #1nt #FITinAfrica #strongertogether
Great to have the president of @fit_ift here in Southern Africa for the #SATI conference and the launch of the regional centre for Africa.
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6 Sep 2023
Such a sad loss. Edith Grossman made a great contribution to the profession, to education, to understanding. Her translations and her musings brought great joy. Her inspiration lives on. #Translationmatters
5 Sep 2023
Very sad news about Edith Grossman.
You can listen to her inspiring conversation with Daniel Hahn here: londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/p…
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Germany: Local #interpreters/LECs who are assisting the @BMVg_Bundeswehr in Mali urge the German gov’t to resettle them out of harm’s way in view of the pending troop withdrawal. #ProtectLinguists zeit.de/politik/ausland/2023…
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16 Aug 2023
.@PaoloLanteriIP on the inherent relationship between human creation and copyright - it's vital that both things are protected, whatever the future of tech 💯 @WIPO
More on #AI and what it means for copyright: youtu.be/CoSEJTYBPn8
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13 Aug 2023
AI apps that can't cope with the people.... so their point is...??? As if cooking is just randomly combining any ingredient [without considering taste/health/safety] as much as writing or translating is just combining words [without considering context, meaning, etc. etc.]
12 Aug 2023
Today's case study in: If you're going to set up a synthetic media machine where anyone can access it, you'll need to account for people throwing all kinds of random stuff at it.
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theguardian.com/world/2023/a…
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11 Aug 2023
Happy #WomenInTranslationMonth! 🎉 HarperVia is honored to publish so many astonishing works by women from across the world. We have some marvelous books for your #TBR this month! Which of these have you read and loved?
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19 Jun 2023
This one is for all the linguists and language nerds out there! Evolution of the word “hundred” in Indo-European languages. How cool is this!? Source: buff.ly/43MCETb…
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Alison Rodriguez retweeted
31 May 2023
Registration is now open, come chat with us about ideal subtitling workflows and best practices! #avt #SubComm
Good news, registration is now open for our next Subtitle Chat! Join us on 9th June to talk about your 'dream' subtitling workflow. Sign-ups close on 7th June. Tell your friends! 📣 #SubComm #AVT
eventbrite.com/e/subtitle-ch…
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The Greek that is translated as “Wretched man that I am!” or similar in English is translated in Chitonga as “Mercy me, I am my own younger brother [i.e., I have no one to look to for help in this situation].”
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Call to participate in the 3rd edition of the VIDEO-POEM MARATHON for International Mother Language Day. Last year we received more than 45 poems, be sure your language is present this year!
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14 Dec 2022
“Translators have invisible power. There is hardly a word that does not have alternatives, so any translation you read is the result of many choices. That is why ethics is such a big part of the translation profession.” partner.sciencenorway.no/lan…
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13 Dec 2022
Valts Ernštreits at launch of @ILDecade "MT with low quality data can kill the language" a special problem for #Indigenous #languages
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Alison Rodriguez retweeted
7 Oct 2022
Latest Tool Box Journal: Review of @kuangrf's Babel (even though she never replied to me😉), Memsource becomes Phrase (@phraseapp), planning for professional gatherings (by @takebackmyday), transcription tools (by @Goldsmith_Josh), tools around MT
xl8.link/CurrentToolBox
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Alison Rodriguez retweeted
30 Sep 2022
Celebrating #InternationalTranslationDay with the publication of my book Translation as #SocialJustice, on translation in #NGOs🥳
Thank you to @IrishResearch @MSCActions @DcuSalis @dcuctt @GOAL_Global for funding/hosting me.
A🧵on what it's about...
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30 Sep 2022
In celebration of #ITD2022 #JMT2022 #DIT2022 , the feast of St Jerome, here’s my favourite #Caravaggio of the Saint himself. Because … exquisite.
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