An arc of appreciation spanning years, countries, languages – and colleagues who have enriched my thought life immeasurably.
A gift in the post
Pumpkins and translation
You can get someone else to do the hard graft, but you will not have learned anything about structure.
No hybrid
This is my response to the idea that we should affix pre-designed icons to the type of work we produce. There is a choice of three: 100% human translation, 100% iffy (also known as MT or machine translation, in its various permutations), or so-called hybrid translation. If you can find the link yourself, you can... Continue Reading →
All around my hat
We were conference-bound, and high-speed conversation bounced back and forth for almost the entire duration until we reached our destination.
Collaboration Essentials
For reasons beyond me, I did not apply the "do it now" directive to publishing the handout version of a presentation given in June 2016 on Collaboration Essentials. Here it is now. Please click on the image below to download the PDF– and remember to respect copyright: ©2016-2018 Allison Wright
Golden Notes memento
Just a quick note (pardon the pun) directed at Aptrad's 2nd International Conference attendees, and placed here just in case you are not a frequent visitor to its Facebook event page. Click on the link in this paragraph to discover what you have to do to receive your memento for the "Golden Notes" presentation given... Continue Reading →
The fifty ways
I heard the Earth rumbling: it was the hearts of millions of fairies turning to stone and thudding on the ground like persistent, regular blows from a hammer. They were dying in their successive droves as daylight reached one time zone after another around the Planet.
Sometimes battered hampers
There, you see, nothing was lost in the process of real translation.
Incarnadine was not the word
Incarnadine was not the word, but it was the word from which we wrung the bloody red that we needed in the words that thrust the end of the novel into the universe with all that which preceded it. It is a pity my Macbeth faltered just when it would have been nice to toss... Continue Reading →
mini bio:
I have been working hard on my miniature biography. It has taken me thirty years (thirty-one, actually) to produce this.
That elusive pair of jeans 