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Trump translators, stop moaning and get on with your work!
Recently, a number of articles and interviews have popped up online in which translators and interpreters – most prominently French translator Bérangère Viennot and German interpreter Norbert Heikamp – complained about the difficulties Donald Trump’s simplistic and unpredictable use of language poses to them. While … Continue reading
Because it’s language, everything goes!
Yesterday, I went to see Lilting at the cinema, a film about a Chinese-Cambodian mother living in London, whose homosexual son had died before coming out to her, and about her relationships with her son’s grieving lover as well as with … Continue reading
Posted in Language in general, Translation and Interpreting
Tagged biological gender, Filmhouse Edinburgh, gender, gendered languages, grammatical gender, in language studies everything goes, interpreting, Language, language and gender, panel discussion about language, Translation, University of Edinburgh, Watching Languages
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