One of the big projects I’ve been working on the past few months is doing the English editing of some academic papers. Fortunately, most of them have been good translations, but every so often I find myself working on one that just hurts my brain. That was the case this past week, and it reminded […]
Perils of Direct Translation
While on a flight to Urumqi last week, the woman sitting next to me struck up a conversation. Like all such conversations here, it began with her asking me where I was from. I told her, and asked the same of her. In due time I asked her why she was going to Urumqi. In […]
