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Editing a translation in 2015: “Wow, the grammar is all messed up; this must be MT” Editing a translation in 2022: “Well, the grammar is fine but they replaced all the en-dashes with hyphens; this must be MT”

I thought this was a joke at first, but it seems this is a dead-serious attempt at analysis, and the kind you could only write if you forget that the world is multilingual!

Hey Seamless Grubhub if your drivers are “heroes” why are you capping how much we tip them? This is barely more than 16%! (Click for full image)

The assumption that machine translation has put human translators out of work is widespread, and it’s likely the opposite of the truth.

Four games that defined my childhood:

A lot of white-collar workers are worried about generative AI taking their jobs in the next few years. I thought it would be interesting to talk to people who have been facing this issue for several years already—professional translators. understandingai.org/p/how-human-tr…

Incredible amount of misinterpretation of the (pre-Bill 96) state of the Charte de la langue française tonight.

Twitter’s bold new future is… a bunch of stuff we were already doing on our phones ten years ago.

POV: a writer you read with great excitement as a kid shows up on grown-up-you's Twitter feed recommending your work 🥰

A released Palestinian prisoner says in Arabic that Israel held them in the cold w/o electricity, "sprayed us w/ pepper spray" & "left us to die." She never mentioned Hamas or a word like it. Yet BBC translated to: "No one helped us. Only Hamas cared...We love them very much."

minnesotareformer.com/2024/02/01/rep…

Exclusive: The article Guernica retracted, and the translator who tried to tread the line of empathy. From the Edges of a Broken World by Joanna Chen in the @Monthly. washingtonmonthly.com/2024/03/18/fro…

Do any of my fellow professional translators on Twitter know someone who has successfully broken into our industry in the past two years? Let me know! #xl8

Dude. Come on. tariq panja

It’s unironically wonderful that one of our biggest pop stars is opening up a huge audience to literature in translation

As we head into winter weather, remember: "Boule de neige" = Snowball, "Boule à neige" = Snow globe. #xl8