Machine translation

W.H Auden’s modernist techniques combined with his unique style of writing makes his poetry difficult to read and interpret. However, his eccentric use of words calls for the reader’s imagination to create images that help grasp the central idea of the poem. Such can be seen in “Law like Love” starting with the ironic nature of the title. Law, as we know it is something which has clear cut definitions and rules which many do not favour. Love on the other hand, is not meant to have boundaries and…

Society, as a unit, has difficulty in knowing and understanding the rather abstract scientific subjects, and rely on those who take the challenge in transforming it into a popular manner. The sophisticated science reports use a variety of vocabulary unknown to the majority of the populations. Scientific terms and other writing structures specialized in the description of scientific reports make it difficult to understand for beginning scholars who do not have a sufficient amount of background…

Appellations translation The appellations in the imperial palace are special titles of ancient history and only are used in the palace. Empresses in the Palace depict a story of ancient women in the palace where happened. There are many special appellations, which are different from foreign countries that don’t have the word than can express the same meaning. Therefore, the special appellations must be translated by using a variety of translation strategies. Table 1: culture-loaded words…

For Christmas 1969, I received a 22- inch bicycle with training wheels that I named Starr. It was the only gift I received that Christmas because my family was struggling to stay financially afloat with a failing hardware store in a small Iowa town. I have no recollection of what my sister received that year as all of my eight-year-old attention was focused on that bike. My first mounting of Starr was easy; it was as if we had been born to ride together. She tilted slightly to the left as I…

One day after practice I came home hot-headed. The entire way home I sat in the car percolating about a comment my coach made toward me. As soon as I opened the door, I dropped my bags and marched straight up to my mom, looking for some comfort, and told her that my volleyball coach just called me lazy. I told her the story just how it happened. It was towards the middle of practice and the team was working on blocking. This involved swift lateral movement from the middle of the net to the…

A given instrumental performance exists as a gateway to the original work rather than being the work itself and as such a given performance is two works rather than one. In Thomas Mark’s Philosophy of Piano Playing: Reflections on the concept of Performance he makes the claim that a performance and a quotation are similar in concept, but performance requires an assertion. With the nature of assertion this account of a performance of an existing work becomes two works rather than one. However,…

Macbeth: Day 1 Name: Cayleigh Hickey Class: Advanced Placement Literature (AP Lit) Date of Lesson: 4/10/17 Goals and Objectives Essential Questions: How does power corrupt people? How does blind ambition corrupt motives, particularly political motives? How does superstition affect human behavior? If you believe in fate, does that belief have any power over your future? What value does Shakespeare’s work hold for our modern world? Are the works still relevant? Standards/Daily Objectives: 11.4.4…

Freeman Tilden was considered to be an innovator in the field of cultural interpretation. Interpreting our Heritage, is recognised as the most influential, seminal book. The book includes the famed “six principles” of interpretation, with an explanation of each one. Tilden’s principles appear straightforward and quite uncomplicated, however, they are more than that, it is sophisticated and imaginative, as his writings speak and challenge the interpreter to this day. This book will offer…

translated. This is the part that gets tricky. Different translations say different things that may give a completely different meaning to the text. You feel like you are missing something essential to the original story. As any bilingual person can tell you, when translating a word or phrase things get lost in translation. There are just some words you cannot, no matter how hard you try, translate. In Beowulf, I found a clear difference in the translation of the Old English into modern English…

Assignment 3 1.Lawrence Venuti advocates “foreignizing”, as against “domesticating” translation (Venuti, Lawrence. 1995. The translator’s Invisibility. A history of Translation. London and New York: Routledge). What do you understand by these terms? What are the advantages and disadvantages of such an approach? In translation practice, foreignization and domestication are two important translation strategies that translators need to consider when approaching the linguistic and cultural…