天の原 思へば変る 色もなし
秋こそ月の 光なりけれ
Ama no hara omoeba kawaru iro mo nashi
aki koso tsuki no hikari narikere
Sky field
Changes with thought
Colourless
The autumn moon
That light
Fujiwara Teika one of my translations of this waka.
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@stevenforth.bsky.social天の原 思へば変る 色もなし
秋こそ月の 光なりけれ
Ama no hara omoeba kawaru iro mo nashi
aki koso tsuki no hikari narikere
Sky field
Changes with thought
Colourless
The autumn moon
That light
Fujiwara Teika one of my translations of this waka.
@henrydavis.bsky.socialTranslations are essential, but they can also hide what an ancient text actually says. Sometimes checking just one word in the original Greek, Latin or Hebrew can completely change what you notice.
@asurashaiku.bsky.socialah mother's milk
wanting to sleep
like a chrysalis
--Shinko Tokizane
ああ母乳さなぎのごとく眠りたし 時実新子
@otenkiame.bsky.social[TRANSLATION] Kocchi no Kento - Mou Ii yo
@ybernia-books.bsky.socialHappy to announce that Ybernia has signed an agreement with renowned publishers Dar el Masri for the publication in Arabic of our book Animales Enfermos.
The translation is by the excellent Dr. Shaimaa Magdy.
@veelisv.bsky.socialONGOING means something continues for a long time.
GOING ON means something is happening right now.
Think: ongoing = long, going on = now.
The project is ongoing, and many things are going on today.
@birdxdealss.bsky.socialAI Translation Earbuds Real Time, 164 Language Translator Earbuds for… → now $9.99, 50% off
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GCVCCZPS?tag=birdxdeal-20 #translation #earbuds
@interlingua.bsky.socialto set the scene
➡️
camper le décor
Ex.:
🇬🇧 To set the scene, the author summarized the previous episodes in an extensive prologue.
🇫🇷 Pour camper le décor, l'auteur a résumé, dans un vaste prologue, les épisodes précédents.
@asurashaiku.bsky.socialmaking a sharp turn
I shake off
my mother's face
--Shinko Tokizane
急カーブしてふりおとす母の顔 時実新子
@otenkiame.bsky.social[TRANSLATION] Kocchi no Kento - GORON TO DORON
@psxdatacenter.bsky.socialPS2
Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica
An englsh retranlation patch has been released by fioraaeterna for all the versions.
Patch
www.projectmetafalica.com#download
#ps2 #psx #retrogame #playstation #ArtonelicoII #translation #SLUS-21788 #NISAmerica #Gust #SLPS-25819 #rpg #SLES-55444 #アル・トネリコ２
@libraryaac.bsky.socialRethinking #translation - that's the idea of Douglas Robinson's book "Translating the Nonhuman". How do humans and non-humans communicate in #sciencefiction ? Robinson looks at Delaney's "Babel-17", Elgin's "Native Tongue" & Chiang's "Story of your Life"
@skyoko.bsky.social[LYRICS TRANSLATION] NiziU - "Light It Up" from GOOD GIRL BUT NOT FOR YOU.
🖤https://www.patreon.com/kyokosagaki/posts/niziu-light-it-170486728🖤
#niziu #lightitup #goodgirlbutnotforyou #portfolio #niziu_portfolio #jpop #lyrics #translation #英訳
@op-tap.bsky.social(Not) Translating iconic laughs and foreign words
I will come back to this and give a lot more examples, of course, along with why the stakes are very different for subtitled and dubbed versions.
#onepiece #translation #op-tap #manga #luffy
@taceantcolloquia.bsky.socialIn case you don't know what I'm talking about, it’s a little fish placed in the auditory canal that eats words from the #source language and "poops out" the #translation in the #target language.
Brilliant.
BUT the passage discussing the consequences of using it is really puzzling:
@interlingua.bsky.socialto shape
➡️
dessiner les contours de
Ex.:
🇬🇧 She continues to drive innovation through research that is shaping the future of cancer care.
🇫🇷 Elle poursuit sans relâche son œuvre d’innovation, menant des recherches qui dessinent les contours de la cancérologie de demain.
@multilingo.studioA pundit speaks. A language listens. Across 16 languages here, the word for 'expert voice' carries the same weight. What would you ask yours?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/pundit-2026-09-24
#wordoftheday #dailyword #languagelover #worldlanguages #translation
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