You have probably never used the word ‘fun’ and ‘adverb’ in the same sentence, but that is most likely because you have not read hundreds and hundreds of pages of translated academic and political articles. I have recently been doing just that, doing the English editing of translated academic and political resources. What it really […]
Twinkling with Inheritance and Development Achievement (Reprise)
For my next-to-last post of “Language Week” I’m re-posting this essay I wrote a few years back on the perils of translation. On Thursday night my landlady called and asked if she could come to my apartment because she had some translation questions for me. Now anyone who has been in China for awhile knows […]
