Find Part 1 here. Part 2: When You’re Ready to Write (1) Identify Language Form(s) Once you’ve established your target languages and begun connecting with those communities, you need to identify the appropriate language forms. No language is neutral or only has one pan-global form. So will it be British or American English? High German or…
I didn’t plan to, but I wrote an interpretive program for my wedding. For a day that involved military background checks, milkshakes, trivia competitions and a surprise pinata, it just seemed like a good idea. While most people know what to expect at a wedding, our was just different enough that guidelines and cues to…
As a follow up to my thoughts on the hierarchy of translation, I wanted to share these images of interpretive labels inside Strasbourg Cathedral. I’m used to seeing the languages in multi-language resources always appear in the same order (e.g. English, then Spanish). There’s nothing wrong with consistency, but it’s possible to interpret the second/third/etc.…
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