Blog: William Yeoman Opera: The big loser in translation? - The West Australian10 Feb 2012

The West AustralianBlog: William Yeoman Opera: The big loser in translation?The West AustralianIt's sung in English. If Verdi was happy enough to set an Italian translation of Shakespeare in operas such as Falstaff and Macbeth for his Italian audience, why on earth are we so squeamish about translating Italian verse or prose of far lesser ...and more »

Stars Prospect NHL Scoring Equivalencies - Defending Big D9 Feb 2012

Stars Prospect NHL Scoring EquivalenciesDefending Big DThe translation factors I've used can be found here. The actual translation factors are .83 (KHL), .78 (SEL, Swedish Elite League), .54 (SM-Liiga, Finland), and .29 (Canadian Juniors). In each table the first numbers you will find are the player's ...

Murder, they wrote - Mid-Day5 Feb 2012

Mid-DayMurder, they wroteMid-DayChennai-based publishing house Blaft, which was set up in 2008 with the intention of translating Tamil pulp fiction works into English and introducing them to a wider audience, could not resist the urge of dipping their hands into this trend by ...

Hey everybody! Meet Alice! - OUPblog (blog)3 Feb 2012

Hey everybody! Meet Alice!OUPblog (blog)I'ma bit of a word nerd, which only got worse when I studied French and made a brief attempt at becoming a translator. When you come across a word that stumps you, just stealing that word into English feels incredibly satisfying.and more »