Translate, Write, Simplify · Traduki, verki, simpligi
The Department of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Society at the University of Udine, Italy is calling for papers for its conference investigating the relations between the acts of translating, writing and simplifying. The event will be held on...
Conlang Excursions 5: Making a Good Thing Better
In my previous article in this series, I described several oligosynthetic languages – in which the vocabulary is built up from a very small number of fundamental pieces – and I noted that the meanings of words constructed via such a system can be difficult to predict:...
Planlingvaj ekskursoj 5: Plibonigi bonaĵon
En mia antaŭa artikolo ĉi-serie, mi priskribis plurajn oligosintezajn lingvojn – en kiuj la vortostoko estas kreita el tre malgranda nombro da fundamentaj pecoj – kaj mi notis, ke la signifoj de vortoj konstruitaj per tia sistemo povas esti malfacile antaŭdireblaj:...Translation as an Event · Tradukado kiel evento
The editors of the Yearbook of Translational Hermeneutics invite contributions broadly aimed at relating translation theory and performance studies, focused specifically on the notion of translation as an event. Details can be found in the call for papers. La...Coming to a Close · Proksimiĝi al fino
The final chapter in Guilherme Fians’s book Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks is called “Coming to a Close, or How Not to Put an End to the Conversation”. The chapter analyses how Esperanto’s continuous existence and regular use emerge from the fact that the...Klingon and Interslavic in the office · La klingona kaj interslava en la oficejo
The most recent version of the freely distributable and open-source office suite LibreOffice supports directly marking that a text (or part of one) is written in Klingon or Interslavic. In the words of British technology news website The Register: “Constructed...New Trends in Translation and Technology · Novaj Tendencoj en Tradukado kaj Teknologio
The international conference “New Trends in Translation and Technology” will take place on the island of Rhodes, Greece, from 4 to 6 July 2022. For details of the topics and further information, please see the NETTT’2022 website. La internacia konferenco “Novaj...When Esperantists Meet · Kiam esperantistoj renkontiĝas
Guilherme Fians’s book Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks includes a chapter entitled “When Esperantists Meet, or What Makes This Community International?”. It explores how certain understandings of nationality emerged historically among Esperanto speakers,...Yiddish and “Lingvo Universala” · La jida kaj “lingvo universala”
In a new book, Zamenhof’s Yiddish Grammar and His Universal Language: Two Projects in Ashkenazi Culture, Christer Kiselman compares the Yiddish language as described by Zamenhof with his contemporaneous language project – and Esperanto’s predecessor – Lingvo...IfI: Information for Interlinguists
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