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Human v. Machine The original is a text written by Paolo Mauri about Elena Ferrante’s book. It was then machine translated. Here are my edits/reactions. (Scroll down to see the … Read More

I. The most difficult part of translating this text by Silvia Ballestra is that the text includes colloquial Italian, as well as phrases in the Pescara dialect. To maintain the … Read More

While reading Anita Raja’s speech on “Translation as a Practice of Acceptance,” she discussed many aspects a translator must consider when working with texts of different languages.  She harps on … Read More

Anita Hotchkiss November, 2019 Comment on “Translation as a Practice of Acceptance,” an article based on a lecture titled “La traduzione come pratica dell’accoglienza,” delivered by Anita Raja in 2015 … Read More

I largely agree with the main points of Roman Jakobson’s essay “On Linguistic Aspects of Translation.” Because so many Americans speak only English, there are a lot of prevailing myths … Read More

Anita Raja’s powerful piece, where she equates translation to acceptance, is wildly thought-provoking. Besides being an articulate and wonderful writer, Raja has a way of telling things how they are, … Read More

Jakobson and Eco discuss in their essays concepts surrounding translation. Jakobson focuses on the difficulty (and eventually concludes, impossibility) of creating any equivalent text translated from one language to another. … Read More

Anita Hotchkiss October 25, 2019 Translation #3:  Excerpt of review of L’amica geniale Revisions and Changes The audience for this translation is the readership of the book review section of … Read More

“To what extent can a translation be referentially ‘unfaithful’?” (p.30). This is a quote by the famous Italian writer Umberto Eco, famous for works such as The Name of the … Read More

Giuseppe Ungaretti is an Italian poet, and is famous for his poems, some of which were influenced by the World War I and II. I will translateVeglia and Soldati. My … Read More