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It's a question of... getting lost in translation

questionof — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:23:18 +0000

English is not my first language; neither is French for that matter. Even after 25 years in France,

Beurs-World Trade Centre

expopedia — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:00:18 +0000

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Beurs-World Trade Centre
Beursplein 37
3011 AA Rotterdam (Netherlands)
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De Doelen Concert and Congress Centre

expopedia — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:00:12 +0000

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De Doelen Concert and Congress Centre
P.O. Box 972
3000 AZ Rotterdam (Netherlands)
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Brabanthallen Den Bosch

expopedia — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:00:17 +0000

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Brabanthallen Den Bosch
Diezekade 2
5222 AK ’s-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands)
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Maastrichts Expositie & Congres Centrum (MECC)

expopedia — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:00:13 +0000

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Maastrichts Expositie & Congres Centrum (MECC)
Postbus 1630
6201 BP Maastricht (Netherlands)
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Amsterdam Convention Factory

expopedia — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:00:12 +0000

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Amsterdam Convention Factory
Czaar Peterstraat 213
1018 PL Amsterdam (Netherlands)
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Autotron

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Autotron
Postbus 142
5240 AC Rosmalen (Netherlands)
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Amsterdam Arena

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Amsterdam Arena
Arena Boulevard 1
1101 AX Amsterdam Zuidoost (Netherlands)
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La Halle Tony Garnier

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La Halle Tony Garnier
20, pl. Des Docteurs Mérieux
69007 Lyon (France)
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Angers Parc Expo

expopedia — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:00:15 +0000

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Angers Parc Expo
Route de Paris
49044 Angers Cedex 01 (France)
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Chartrexpo

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Chartrexpo
RN 10
28011 Chartres (France)
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Cité Centre de Congrès

expopedia — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:00:12 +0000

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Cité Centre de Congrès
50, quai Charles de Gaulle
69463 Lyon Cedex 6 (France)
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Artois Expo

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Artois Expo
50, av. Roger Salengro
62223 Saint Laurent-Blangy (France)
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La mondialisation, une relation à sens unique

kraulandblog — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:06:25 +0000

Lien vers l’article trouvé hier sur le site de l’IAPTI (International Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters), créée en date du 30 septembre 2009 :

http://www.aipti.org/eng/articles/art1-globalization-gone-awry-the-rice-for-intellect-mindset.html

En attendant d’avoir (peut-être) l’autorisation de le traduire en français…

Espace Double Mixte

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Espace Double Mixte
Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918
69100 Villeurbanne (France)
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Le Tapis Rouge

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Le Tapis Rouge
67 rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin
75010 Paris (France)
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Le Parc

expopedia — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:00:10 +0000

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Le Parc
Av. Pierre Bérégovoy
71000 Mâcon (France)
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The most complex website about Japan I've ever seen

katiesjapanfiles — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:58:21 +0000

In my daily Japan blog trawl, I’ve come across Néojaponisme many times but for some reason or other never clicked over to it. Well, a blog post (via @Japan_Blogs) by one of their founders/compatriots/revolutionaries finally led me round to it.

No-sword author Matt Treyvaud is a ridiculously intelligent translator, linguist and thankfully, blogger. [He's also composed some 8-bit versions of Madama Butterfly, and therefore assumed a level of rarefied cool in my eyes.] His level of accomplishment and knowledge of Japanese is food for inspiration when the daily rote of memorisation gets this student of 日本語 downhearted. I started my slow-paced tread down this road because of the hints given by translators at the hit-or-miss-ness of translations into English. Even at their best, a translator will lament the futility of squeezing a trim, elegant Japanese expression into a lengthy, detailed English sentence.

Living in Britain has taught me well how much can be said, without saying the thing itself. Example: “I’m not being funny, but…” is a red flag that the person is about to say something they fear will offend the listener or alienate them in some way. “I’m not being funny, but she will not stop talking about Japan all the time” And of course, the blessed cockney slang. Absolutely indispensable to following casual conversations, and even some business colleagues. Some that have snuck into my everyday vocabulary:

“These blokes had a complete barney outside the bar last night”

barney = Barney Rubble = “trouble”, but implies any sort of confrontation or troublemaking.

“Have a butcher’s at this shop further down the highstreet…”

butcher’s = Butcher’s Hook = “look” (used more if you know a lot of people from London)

Anyroad (there’s another one), Néojaponisme proves to be a far more ’singular’ website, complete with Manifesto. I’ve selected a couple of choicey segments:

…keeping in the spirit of exploratory re-imagination, let us no longer construe Japan in such a literal sense, solely as the island nation lying off the Eastern coast of the Asian continent. Japan is bigger than just Japan. Japan is metaphor and allegory, successful case study and cautionary example, tragedy and comedy, Eden and the Land of the Lotus Eaters. All these multiple narratives cannot possibly be correct at the same time, unless we remove Japan from its strict geographical denotation and explore a more abstracted Japan in conjunction with our normal surveillance of reality

Now, this I really like. It embraces the outsider’s perspective, but with sensitivity to the subtlety and romance of Japan.

This next excerpt has obviously been felt necessary to address real critics, but I personally don’t see how a visitor to the site could doubt the first sentence:

Oh, we do like Japan! There has been much controversy over this issue, but we proudly proclaim again that our criticisms come from a hope to see Japan protect its strengths and maximize its potential. We feel sorry for a conception of love hollowed out to command unambiguous and unconditional acceptance of the status quo. We certainly appreciate specific strengths of the Japanese system: excellent transportation, healthy food, public civility, product diversity, and visual proficiency. The question is whether these system outputs fully justify the less desirable elements running behind the scenes — monopoly, duopoly, oligopoly, organized crime, statism, patriarchy, feudalism, or worse. More importantly, are these dark forces integral to producing desired outputs or can they be cleanly removed like vestigial organs?

Maybe it’s because I’ve recently read The Learners, but the authorship of the site reminds me of Chip Kidd novels. Stylish and self-aware, but also good-humouredly bombastic and philosophical. Especially in the 1920’s pamphlet-esque closing bytes, which I decided to answer for my own interests:

Who will sit down and read an essay when the Internet Gods provide hundreds of fragments and gimmicks in its place?

I do! Hence why I’ve binned my old social networking ways – not enough time to read the only articles and posts worth reading.

Do children dream of being linkers or linkees?

Mmmm, well in my case it’s actually to be a linker. I also “no longer want to hear the echoes” of my own voice “bouncing off the cocoon walls”; the difference in my case is that I have very little to offer as a linkee. Yet my purpose of linking and posting is precisely to get out of the safe, staid holding room where so many hopeful Japanese learners stagnate. I’ll risk being seen as a waste of ether to pave my own determined way.

This is an exciting site, and one I’ll be adding to my daily J-Blog reading list. I don’t fit the mould for it’s requested contributors, but I find it refreshing to see their vivid and intelligent approach in writing about Japan. Definitely added to my (occasionally trimmed down tastefully) blogroll.

Le Chorus

expopedia — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:00:13 +0000

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Le Chorus
Parc du Golfe
56000 Vannes (France)
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Reims Evènements

expopedia — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:00:12 +0000

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Reims Evènements
B.P. 214
51686 Reims Cedex 2 (France)
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Saint-Etienne Parc-Expo

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Saint-Etienne Parc-Expo
B.P. 254
42006 St.-Etienne Cedex 1 (France)
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Expourense

expopedia — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:00:11 +0000

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Expourense
Finca Sevilla, s/n
32005 Ourense (Spain)
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Hotel Fira Palace

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Hotel Fira Palace
Av. Rius i Taulet N
08004 Barcelona (Spain)
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Pabellón de Ferias y Congresos

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Pabellón de Ferias y Congresos
Camino Viejo de Alarcos, 30
13005 Ciudad Real (Spain)
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Palacio de Ferias y Congresos

expopedia — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:00:19 +0000

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Palacio de Ferias y Congresos
Avda. José Meliá, 2
29600 Marbella (Spain)
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