Tag Archives: translation

Problems with slapdash translation

Translation and Guo Jingming; Sichuan earthquake; Wendi Deng and Zhang Ziyi; Beijing tops in toilets; ‘stroll’ arrests; being Chinese; the 14th DL; translation software from Google and Kingsoft; jumbo jets; workers released in Nigeria;

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Lupine lactose intolerant

A book review of Wolf Totem by Linda Jaivin.

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Farewell to literary magazines

Eslite Reader (诚品好读) and Translation (译文) magazines bid farewell.

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Malformed English in Guiyang delights online commenters

An awful, awful sign translation in Guiyang

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Language tips in a business report

A report on the Microsoft-Yahoo non-acquisition has Kingsoft language tips.

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Damn the translator!

Yi Sha (伊沙) goes to Rotterdam. White Power in BQ. Politics in old dictionaries.

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The flag never lowers on the American empire

The Star-Spangled Banner (星条旗歌) vs The Stars and Stripes Forever (星条旗永不落).

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A dog’s breakfast of a name

A dog’s breakfast of an English name

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Danwei Picks: Johnnie To big in Europe

Citic and Bear Stearns; Johnnie To received warmly by European critics; Mia Farrow comments on Spielberg; two translators pass away.

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Danwei Picks: 2007-12-21

SCMP gets bought out, Washington Monthly looks at Yangtze River water use, and Southern Weekly goes behind the scenes of the PX public hearings.

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