Comments for My Life In Translation [ dot net ] http://www.mylifeintranslation.net/blog A lifelong learning journey. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:27:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on When Translators (and Language Students) Meet the Rest of the World by Ilaria http://www.mylifeintranslation.net/blog/when-translators-and-language-students-meet-the-rest-of-the-world.html/comment-page-1#comment-1083 Ilaria Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:27:17 +0000 http://www.mylifeintranslation.net/blog/?p=936#comment-1083 LOL I've just edited that! ;) Thanks for correcting me! LOL I’ve just edited that! ;)
Thanks for correcting me!

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]]> Comment on The Way I Translate by Ilaria http://www.mylifeintranslation.net/blog/919.html/comment-page-1#comment-1070 Ilaria Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:52:23 +0000 http://www.mylifeintranslation.net/blog/?p=919#comment-1070 Hi Melissa! Thanks for your comment! :) Thank goodness machine translation isn't reliable, otherwise translators and interpreters would have to get another job!! ;) Yes, machine translators don't understand the context of a text and the intentions of its author. At the very beginning, my blog was fully bilingual, but since writing the same post in two languages takes time, I write single posts in English or in Italian. The language choice depends on which language I feel like using and also on the kind of potential blog readers. Hi Melissa! Thanks for your comment! :)
Thank goodness machine translation isn’t reliable, otherwise translators and interpreters would have to get another job!! ;)
Yes, machine translators don’t understand the context of a text and the intentions of its author.
At the very beginning, my blog was fully bilingual, but since writing the same post in two languages takes time, I write single posts in English or in Italian. The language choice depends on which language I feel like using and also on the kind of potential blog readers.

]]> Comment on The Way I Translate by Melissa Muldoon http://www.mylifeintranslation.net/blog/919.html/comment-page-1#comment-1067 Melissa Muldoon Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:23:25 +0000 http://www.mylifeintranslation.net/blog/?p=919#comment-1067 Ciao Ilaria! As you know I write a blog in Italian to improve my language skills. I always write in Italian and try not to think in English. When I have doubts about how to convey something I check the internet and use Italian and English dictionaries and Garzanti for synonyms. Recently I have started to translate my blogs into English. I started this upon the request of my husband because he wants to follow my blog but doesn't understand Italian. I used to say to him..."just use google translator to translate the blog".. but then I realized that while adequate to convey general concepts, it really doesn't capture the nuances of my thoughts and often creates such crazy translations that it is almost laughable. I realized that I really needed to translate my thoughts myself in order to best convey idioms and a special turn of a phrase. I am also finding that there are some things that are just not translatable from one language to the other. The challenge of a translator I am finding, is to also be a cultural interpretator! Ciao Ilaria! As you know I write a blog in Italian to improve my language skills. I always write in Italian and try not to think in English. When I have doubts about how to convey something I check the internet and use Italian and English dictionaries and Garzanti for synonyms.

Recently I have started to translate my blogs into English. I started this upon the request of my husband because he wants to follow my blog but doesn’t understand Italian. I used to say to him…”just use google translator to translate the blog”.. but then I realized that while adequate to convey general concepts, it really doesn’t capture the nuances of my thoughts and often creates such crazy translations that it is almost laughable. I realized that I really needed to translate my thoughts myself in order to best convey idioms and a special turn of a phrase. I am also finding that there are some things that are just not translatable from one language to the other. The challenge of a translator I am finding, is to also be a cultural interpretator!

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]]> Comment on Alcune idee regalo creative by Ilaria http://www.mylifeintranslation.net/blog/alcune-idee-regalo-creative.html/comment-page-1#comment-1065 Ilaria Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:48:43 +0000 http://www.mylifeintranslation.net/blog/?p=901#comment-1065 Thank you! :-) Thank you! :-)

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]]> Comment on My 2011 Resolutions by 2011-2012 Meme « My Life In Translation [ dot net ] http://www.mylifeintranslation.net/blog/my-2011-resolutions.html/comment-page-1#comment-1059 2011-2012 Meme « My Life In Translation [ dot net ] Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:37:03 +0000 http://www.mylifeintranslation.net/blog/?p=574#comment-1059 [...] Do you actually keep your New Year’s resolutions? I try to. *reads 2011 ones* I’ve only accomplished three of them. I passed one exam, I lost some weight and, as I wrote [...] [...] Do you actually keep your New Year’s resolutions? I try to. *reads 2011 ones* I’ve only accomplished three of them. I passed one exam, I lost some weight and, as I wrote [...]

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