Handle with passion

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Last updated 04/04/2012

This post pre-dates my organ-grinding days, and may be imported from elsewhere.

Anonymous bar (8):

Barcelona (1399):

English language (462):

Föcked Translation (414): I posted to a light-hearted blog called Fucked Translation over on Blogger from 2007 to 2016, when I was often in Barcelona. Its original subtitle was "What happens when Spanish institutions and businesses give translation contracts to relatives or to some guy in a bar who once went to London and only charges 0.05€/word." I never actually did much Spanish-English translation (most of my work is from Dutch, French and German) but I was intrigued and amused by the hubristic Spanish belief, then common, that nepotism and quality went hand in hand, and by the nemeses that inevitably followed.

Spain (1881):

Spanish language (504):

Translation (788):


Comments

  1. In English mango is used as a euphemism for breast which by rear entrants is sometimes referred to as a (love-)handle, so there may be a crazy logic in there somewhere.

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