In the Translator's Workshop: Featuring Emily Osborne on "Oláfr Tryggvason’s Death" by Hallfreðr Óttarsson
EMILY OSBORNE | Unsurprisingly, manuscript traditions reveal that scribes were often stumped by the kennings they recorded or copied, and Hallfreðr’s seven-part kenning for Oláfr is no exception.
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Why Tyrants Fear Speakers of Living Language
ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | Language is in mortal peril, and we need to do something about it. The current trajectory of AI, left unchecked, will globalize the strongest weapon of colonialism...
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In the Translator’s Workshop: Featuring Boris Dralyuk on “Adam” by Julia Nemirovskaya
BORIS DRALYUK | My goal was to meet the text whole, to find a fitting tone of voice, to make up for inevitable losses with gains available only in English.
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