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Humor and Translation -- Music as Translation
In her recent book on Music and Translation1, Lucile Desblache assumes an extremely expansive definition of translation, applying the term to virtually any cultural artifact that has been influenced in any way by another cultural artifact from the same or a different culture.
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The ATA Compensation Survey, Sixth Edition is now available exclusively to ATA members for free! This industry-wide survey was designed to capture a comprehensive picture of the market for T&I services.
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Humor and Translation - Jhumpa Lahiri and Italo Calvino
For Jhumpa Lahiri, translating is more than simply what she does. In her book, Translating Myself and Others, she states, “I translate, therefore I am.”
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Humor and Translation: Translating Nonsense
The “Italian” libretto of La figlia del mago (The Sorcerer’s Daughter), by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero and librettist Marco Ravasini, was created to introduce children to the conventions of 19th-century Italian opera. The libretto, nearly incomprehensible to most Italians, is reminiscent both of heroic verse and modern television commercials. So, how is such a text to be translated?
