#xl8 is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 22 people shared 107 posts with it — around 4 a day. Activity is up 32% versus the previous week, peaking on Sep 15 with 11 posts.

Posts with #xl8

isabeltranslates

@isabeltranslates.bsky.social

almost 2 years ago

MS Word has installed Copilot AI. Here's how to stop it accessing your documents – don't you risk violating your NDAs! #xl8

Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social

sorry I mistyped this nightmare path: File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Connected Experiences

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Percy Balemans 📚

@creative-xl8.bsky.social

10 months ago

"Machine translation would handle the heavy lifting, and we’d add the expert polish. Except the machine made a mess. And we’re doing expert-level cognitive labour to clean it up for cleaning wages. We’re not mops. We’re translators." #translation #xl8 www.linkedin.com/pulse/op….

www.linkedin.com

An open letter to colleagues: we are not mops

After more than two decades working in legal translation across four languages and multiple jurisdictions, I’ve watched our profession reshaped by forces that claim efficiency as a path to our expenda...

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isabeltranslates

@isabeltranslates.bsky.social

almost 2 years ago

Why you should always use a professional translator, number I-don't-know-I've-lost-count, in a series that is far less occasional than it should be... 🤦‍♀️ #xl8

Yellow packaging with the text:
Attention:
Asking usage to specify the charger proceeds to refresh
The attention defends the tide,
strictlying forbid the short circuit
Can’t close to the fire source the
in order to prevent occurrence
Bang
MADE IN CHINA

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Percy Balemans 📚

@creative-xl8.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Author and translator David Mitchell on translation: "Translators rock." Of course, we already knew that... 💪😉 #translation #xl8 www.asymptotejournal.com/….

This is my debut as a translator. The exercise has confirmed my long-held suspicion that my translators are three times cleverer than me, with a better command of English as well as the 'into-language,' plus a knowledge of the mysterious art and science that is translation itself. As a writer I can be bad, but I can't be wrong. A translator can be good, but can never be right. Translators are jugglers, diplomats, nuance-ticklers, magistrates, word-nerds, self-testing lie detectors, and poets. Translators rock.

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Alastair Millar

@skriptorium.info

12 months ago

It's International Translation Day, also known as the feast of St Jerome, patron saint of translators! #internationaltranslationday #xl8 #translatorslife

Portrait of "St Jerome in his Study" (1480) by Domenico Ghirlandaio, showing the saint with his head resting on his left knuckles, elbow on his desk. Overprinted with the text "Be a translator, they said. It'll be fun, the said."

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Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel)

@tanyagold.bsky.social

17 days ago

PAID GIG: I'm looking for someone who knows Spanish Sign Language. I'm going to be translating a graphic novel where SSL is featured (hooray for d/Deaf rep!!) and I want to be sure that I get the text aligned with the signs in the artwork. This should be happening at some point this year. #xl8

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Florent Moncomble

@fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org

about 1 year ago

When you struggle to find the equivalent of a word or phrase in another language, do you sometimes find yourself opening Wikipedia, searching for it then navigating to the "languages" section to get its title in the other language? Well, I do, and I got tired of it, hence: #linguistics #xl8 #xl9n

corpustools.prendrelangue.fr

WikiXl8

Look up Wikipedia pages across languages

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isabeltranslates

@isabeltranslates.bsky.social

almost 2 years ago

"Machines do not translate, they merely generate textual material; books are written by human authors and should be translated by human translators. Imagination, understanding and creativity are intrinsically human and should not be left out of any literary text." www.ceatl.eu/open-letter-... #xl8

www.ceatl.eu

Open letter to Veen Bosch & Keuning in regards to the usage of AI to translate books into English language

We are horrified to read in The Bookseller about Veen Bosch & Keuning’s “limited experiment with some Dutch authors, for…

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Percy Balemans 📚

@creative-xl8.bsky.social

almost 2 years ago

"Being a translator is an invisible and underrated profession. [...] It is this lack of awareness, the invisibility and lack of insight into our skills, that is making the machine takeover so easy." - Lisa Fransson, translator and author #translation #xl8 www.thebookseller.com/com….

www.thebookseller.com

Does not translate

AI can never match human translators—but we need authors to support us.

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Erik Hansson

@erikhansson.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Translator: My rate is 0.xx per source word. Client A: We're a small start-up and don't have a huge budget for this. Client B: We're a successful multinational enterprise and are not willing to pay this much. -- Apparently there is always a reason not to pay decent rates for #translations #xl8.

Picture of peanuts, the colloquial term for intimidating low rates for expert services, e.g. translation services.

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Percy Balemans 📚

@creative-xl8.bsky.social

almost 2 years ago

If you mention a book that has been translated, please #NameTheTranslator. Translations don't just appear out of nowhere, they are (still!) translated by human beings. Please give them the credit they deserve. Btw, this also applies to publishers and bookshops... #translation #xl8 #Booksky #books

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Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel)

@tanyagold.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

That "Hey I'm actually pretty good at this" feeling when you do a final read before sending a manuscript off to the publisher 🥰 #translation #xl8 #kidlit

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