Patrick, did you try the 'Lost in translation' website:
<http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/>
It puts text through a series of machine translations, sometimes to amusing
or interesting effect. *Includes Chinese, Japanese, and Korean if you want!
P
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Patrick Mc Manus
> Sent: 18 May 2007 18:35
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: translating Japanese
>
> Sort of re this thread
> I alawys wondered -perhaps it has been done -like chinese whispers the
> translation in isolation of a poem into say six languages then the last
> being translated into the original??
> Patrick -Friday night waiting to open a bottle of magical Oz plonk and
> awaiting my Ozzess partner to leap back through the door from a day at
> the
> coal face of careering
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On
> Behalf Of Roger Day
> Sent: 18 May 2007 06:52
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: translating Japanese
>
> That looks interesting, thankyou.
>
> On 5/17/07, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Yang Lian has some interesting things to say about translating
> Chinese
> > poetry (which seems to me, quietly, to be more impossible than even
> most
> > translation, given a strictness of form that is quite literally
> impossible
> > in English and which feeds directly into its meanings - not to
> mention the
> > question of the visual aspects - ). There's an essay on his site
> about a
> > translation exercise Lian did with students at Bard College on Du
> Fu's
> > Climbing.
> http://www.yanglian.net/yanglian_en/essays/essays_01_05.html
> >
> > The resulting exercise used to be online - it's quite beautiful - but
> I
> > can't find it.
> >
> > xA
> >
> >
> > --
> > Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au
> > Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
> > Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
> >
>
>
> --
> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde
>
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.1/807 - Release Date:
> 16/05/2007
> 18:05
>
>
> No virus found in this outgoing message.
> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.3/809 - Release Date:
> 17/05/2007
> 17:18
>
|