This is what you get for mistreating translators 🫠 It's karma
Omg that terrible magazine that approached me about publishing my translations while I was fighting the British Museum and then published my work without contracts or proofs in place... has shut down (last year apparently, i was not paying attention)
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This is what you get for mistreating translators 🫠 It's karma
Who needs professional translators?
November 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Who needs professional translators?
I think biblical translators should just render the ‘untranslatable’ direct object marker את as @.
Don’t @ me.
Don’t @ me.
November 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I think biblical translators should just render the ‘untranslatable’ direct object marker את as @.
Don’t @ me.
Don’t @ me.
Appreciate translators.
Humans, not AI.
Humans, not AI.
November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Appreciate translators.
Humans, not AI.
Humans, not AI.
I’m already on record here as supporting real translators for real translations. I have too much respect and appreciation for my own translators to ever NOT be supportive … and I detest this Amazon play, even if we all knew it was coming.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
ebx.sh
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I’m already on record here as supporting real translators for real translations. I have too much respect and appreciation for my own translators to ever NOT be supportive … and I detest this Amazon play, even if we all knew it was coming.
I would like Countess and Skin Thief available in French BUT they must be translated by a human who gets paid.
I work with words, and I do not support taking work away from translators. Translation isn't just Word equivalent computing. I don't want that for my books or translators.
I work with words, and I do not support taking work away from translators. Translation isn't just Word equivalent computing. I don't want that for my books or translators.
"Amazon propose une traduction par IA pour les livres Kindle auto-édités"
Bon, je n'en peux plus de soupirer. 🙃
Bon, je n'en peux plus de soupirer. 🙃
Amazon offers AI translation for self-published Kindle books
AI translation is coming to your Kindle.
www.theverge.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I would like Countess and Skin Thief available in French BUT they must be translated by a human who gets paid.
I work with words, and I do not support taking work away from translators. Translation isn't just Word equivalent computing. I don't want that for my books or translators.
I work with words, and I do not support taking work away from translators. Translation isn't just Word equivalent computing. I don't want that for my books or translators.
i do not like koji fox's translation work basically at all but even my ability to say that rests on square understanding that translators and localisers are themselves key voices in a project
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
i do not like koji fox's translation work basically at all but even my ability to say that rests on square understanding that translators and localisers are themselves key voices in a project
the firefox heel turn is perhaps one of the saddest stories for the open web
doubling down on LLMs-for-everything now involves crowding out the translators support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums... imagine how many hours of painstaking human work have just been thrown out in favour of machine translation
doubling down on LLMs-for-everything now involves crowding out the translators support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums... imagine how many hours of painstaking human work have just been thrown out in favour of machine translation
November 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
the firefox heel turn is perhaps one of the saddest stories for the open web
doubling down on LLMs-for-everything now involves crowding out the translators support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums... imagine how many hours of painstaking human work have just been thrown out in favour of machine translation
doubling down on LLMs-for-everything now involves crowding out the translators support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums... imagine how many hours of painstaking human work have just been thrown out in favour of machine translation
When life becomes too cloudy, remember to stay close to people who feel like sunshine.☀️
Have a great week!🙋♀️☕️
#GoodMorningBluesky #Booksky #Translators #MondayMotivation #MondayMood
🎨 Not mine
Have a great week!🙋♀️☕️
#GoodMorningBluesky #Booksky #Translators #MondayMotivation #MondayMood
🎨 Not mine
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
When life becomes too cloudy, remember to stay close to people who feel like sunshine.☀️
Have a great week!🙋♀️☕️
#GoodMorningBluesky #Booksky #Translators #MondayMotivation #MondayMood
🎨 Not mine
Have a great week!🙋♀️☕️
#GoodMorningBluesky #Booksky #Translators #MondayMotivation #MondayMood
🎨 Not mine
mozilla trying to force AI translation shit onto veteran community translators has killed the volunteer project entirely
AI Controversy Forces End of Mozilla’s Japanese SUMO Community
The SUMO Japanese team quits en masse, accusing Mozilla’s AI system of erasing years of community translation work.
linuxiac.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
mozilla trying to force AI translation shit onto veteran community translators has killed the volunteer project entirely
If any questions should be asked first about what this means for literature then the 1st question should be about Palestinian lit and all the writers and translators who were killed and who are currently still starving
Then about the way institutions have worked to silence Palestinian Americans
Then about the way institutions have worked to silence Palestinian Americans
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
If any questions should be asked first about what this means for literature then the 1st question should be about Palestinian lit and all the writers and translators who were killed and who are currently still starving
Then about the way institutions have worked to silence Palestinian Americans
Then about the way institutions have worked to silence Palestinian Americans
#Writingcommunity This is awful. I didn't spend thousands of dollars on French, German, Italian and Spanish translations by wonderful human translators for them to have to compete with AI generated translations.
I feel so sorry for the translators who are going to lose work because of this. #FuckAI
I feel so sorry for the translators who are going to lose work because of this. #FuckAI
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) authors.
www.thebookseller.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
#Writingcommunity This is awful. I didn't spend thousands of dollars on French, German, Italian and Spanish translations by wonderful human translators for them to have to compete with AI generated translations.
I feel so sorry for the translators who are going to lose work because of this. #FuckAI
I feel so sorry for the translators who are going to lose work because of this. #FuckAI
Definitely ‘Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity’ from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social! Editing this project was such a powerful joy, especially right now, and I’m honored by all the amazing writers & translators who contributed and entrusted me with their stories.
bookshop.org/p/books/ampl...
bookshop.org/p/books/ampl...
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Definitely ‘Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity’ from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social! Editing this project was such a powerful joy, especially right now, and I’m honored by all the amazing writers & translators who contributed and entrusted me with their stories.
bookshop.org/p/books/ampl...
bookshop.org/p/books/ampl...
No, people who want to be accurate and who respect their audiences continue to hire and consult real human translators.
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
No, people who want to be accurate and who respect their audiences continue to hire and consult real human translators.
@yokoikids.bsky.social The english translators for Great Greed HAD to be Kids in the Hall fans.
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
@yokoikids.bsky.social The english translators for Great Greed HAD to be Kids in the Hall fans.
Put simply, SE's LQA testers take a proactive role in the final stages of localization and ensure that our final edits are as spotless as possible. While the translators and editors SE hires are quite talented, QA always deserves credit for making sure our vision is, in fact, implemented correctly.
November 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Put simply, SE's LQA testers take a proactive role in the final stages of localization and ensure that our final edits are as spotless as possible. While the translators and editors SE hires are quite talented, QA always deserves credit for making sure our vision is, in fact, implemented correctly.
I have always been surprised (and annoyed) by the ambiguity of the Yiddish preposition ‹far› פֿאַר:
1. for, as, in exchange for, in place of (= German ‹für›)
2. in front of, before (= German ‹vor›)
It is sometimes confusing even for native speakers or translators.
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1. for, as, in exchange for, in place of (= German ‹für›)
2. in front of, before (= German ‹vor›)
It is sometimes confusing even for native speakers or translators.
❶
November 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I have always been surprised (and annoyed) by the ambiguity of the Yiddish preposition ‹far› פֿאַר:
1. for, as, in exchange for, in place of (= German ‹für›)
2. in front of, before (= German ‹vor›)
It is sometimes confusing even for native speakers or translators.
❶
1. for, as, in exchange for, in place of (= German ‹für›)
2. in front of, before (= German ‹vor›)
It is sometimes confusing even for native speakers or translators.
❶
video game translators i am begging you stop using old english for fantasy games y'all dont know how it works. just make people talk normally.
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
video game translators i am begging you stop using old english for fantasy games y'all dont know how it works. just make people talk normally.
Thanks for the #UPWeek love, @literaryhub.bsky.social! Many university presses are dedicated to Teaming UP with translators to advance knowledge & understanding. Discover 17 outstanding examples to #ReadUP in “ Reading Around the World” https://bit.ly/43S4pf8 ...
Reading Around the World: 17 Great Books in Translation From University Presses
Want to travel around the world without leaving your house? Just pick up a book that was translated from another language. Whether you are reading a novel originally written in French, a memoir ori…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Thanks for the #UPWeek love, @literaryhub.bsky.social! Many university presses are dedicated to Teaming UP with translators to advance knowledge & understanding. Discover 17 outstanding examples to #ReadUP in “ Reading Around the World” https://bit.ly/43S4pf8 ...
THAT is why I find it so insulting that anybody in upper management would dare to think they should lay off anybody in QA, let alone replace huge swaths of it with gen AI. A lot of people who aren't the famous translators you know pour in blood, sweat, and tears to bring each loc to the finish line.
November 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
THAT is why I find it so insulting that anybody in upper management would dare to think they should lay off anybody in QA, let alone replace huge swaths of it with gen AI. A lot of people who aren't the famous translators you know pour in blood, sweat, and tears to bring each loc to the finish line.
I really enjoyed reading this review. I wish it had mentioned Krasznahorkai's translators. George Szirtes translated The Melancholy of Resistance. I translated Herscht 07769, the book under review here.
Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+
Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+
“The Nobel Prize is fitting, if anything: Alfred Nobel established the prize out of guilt as a 'death merchant,' and now our greatest novelist of decay and destruction has been given the dynamite money.”
Evan Grillon on Krasznahorkai
clereviewofbooks.com/laszlo-krasz...
Evan Grillon on Krasznahorkai
clereviewofbooks.com/laszlo-krasz...
Tiny Apocalypses: On László Krasznahorkai's "Herscht 07769" - Cleveland Review of Books
His books have prophesied dooms big and small for forty years now, much to the annoyance of our century's chummy optimists and milquetoast novelists obsessed with their own private misery and campus p...
clereviewofbooks.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I really enjoyed reading this review. I wish it had mentioned Krasznahorkai's translators. George Szirtes translated The Melancholy of Resistance. I translated Herscht 07769, the book under review here.
Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+
Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+
Gina does the no-event calendar but it included a sovereignty oath thing on 25 December for a change. Perfect way to spend Christmas.
Then the usual spelling URLs, begging for housing for the homeless culties, pleading for more translators and the rest of the daily drivel.
Then the usual spelling URLs, begging for housing for the homeless culties, pleading for more translators and the rest of the daily drivel.
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Gina does the no-event calendar but it included a sovereignty oath thing on 25 December for a change. Perfect way to spend Christmas.
Then the usual spelling URLs, begging for housing for the homeless culties, pleading for more translators and the rest of the daily drivel.
Then the usual spelling URLs, begging for housing for the homeless culties, pleading for more translators and the rest of the daily drivel.
The part about Keira D'Amato bringing her kids to Valencia to serve as her translators made me laugh. Especially since I remember her saying that enrolling them in a Spanish immersion school was kind of an accident. boston-half-marathon.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php...
B.A.A. Half Marathon - News - Important Fitness Test For D'Amato at Boston Half On Sunday - RRW
IMPORTANT FITNESS TEST FOR D'AMATO AT BOSTON HALF ON SUNDAY By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2025 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved - Used with permission. (07-Nov) -- Former USA marathon record ...
boston-half-marathon.runnerspace.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The part about Keira D'Amato bringing her kids to Valencia to serve as her translators made me laugh. Especially since I remember her saying that enrolling them in a Spanish immersion school was kind of an accident. boston-half-marathon.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php...