Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Carnival of Blog Translation

Announcing the first Carnival of Blog Translation! Tuesday, Feb. 28th, 2006!

On the day of the Carnival, a participant translates one post by another blogger, and posts it on her own blog with a link to the original. She would need to email me, or post in the comments right here, and I'll compile one big post on the day of the Carnival with links to all the participants.

You can translate any blog entry that was posted in the month of February 2006. It can be your own blog entry, if you like.

From participants I need:

your name
name of your blog
your blog URL
post title in target language

name of blog you're translating
name of person you're translating
that URL
the post title in the source language

You should get permission from the person you're translating to post your translation of their work. I would also suggest that you might introduce your translation for the target-language audience, and provide some context if you can.

A Blog Carnival is sort of like a travelling signpost that points to a bunch of magazine articles. It is a post that contains links to other posts written especially on a particular theme. I'll host it this month, and next month will hand it off to another host. The content will not appear here; only links to that content!


If you're looking for a blog in a particular language, try searching on Technorati, a useful blog search engine.

This idea came from a discussion on Bev Traynor's blog and further discussion of bilingual blogging and tagging at BlogHer. I'm excited about the idea and its possibilities!


*** Rebecca Mckay points out that the "Translation Carnival" is a graduate student conference happening at University of Iowa in April. Here's some information on the U. of Iowa Translation Carnival; it sounds like a great event!

113 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a great idea. I've posted a French version of your announcement (freely translated) on my blog.

Anonymous said...

I mentioned it in German. Of course, as you obviously know from the word Carnival, it's not an ordinary working day in all parts of Germany.

Hans Persson said...

I just did a version in Swedish in my blog.

trendoffice said...

I will post it in Bulgarian in my blog

Anonymous said...

Interesting idea. I often wonder re Arab blogs whether there's a big difference between the Arab blogosphere in Arabic (which I cannot read) and that in English(which I follow with much interest). In general, do you think one should always get permission from the original poster to translate and post their blog, or is that just for the spirit and purposes of this particular carnival exercise?

Anonymous said...

I'm leaving link to my entry here (I would e-mail it as Liz suggested but couldn't find your e-mail):
http://eta-ta.livejournal.com/4465.html

Tatyana

Regina Nabais said...

I wonder if you may consider the following refferenced post for your compiling job:


name of blog I’m translating: A Difference, (post published on Sunday, February 19, 2006.

name of the blogger I’m translating: DARREN KUROPATWA

that URL: adifference.blogspot.com

the post title in the source language: “A Difference Goes Multilingual”

post title in Português: “ A Difference” (A Diferença) torna-se multilingue (poliglota)"

my own name: Regina Nabais

name of may blog: POLIKÊ?

the URL of may blog: http://www.polike.blogspot.com/

Thank you ever so much

Liz said...

I'm so happy that all of you are participating; I'll link to anyone's post. Email me now or tomorrow and I'll do my best to write it all up quickly.

- Liz
lizhenry@gmail.com

Anonymous said...

Ha, I did it. I don't blog in my native language, normally, so I did a translation en-fr. The details:

your name: Chris Waigl
name of your blog: Diacritiques
your blog URL: http://serendipity.lascribe.net/ling-lang/translation/2006/02/le-projet-de-loi-sur-le-%c2%ab-trou-analogique-%c2%bb-imposerait-une-loi-secrete/
post title in target language: Le projet de loi sur le « trou analogique » imposerait une loi secrète

name of blog you're translating: Freedom to Tinker
name of person you're translating: Ed Felten
that URL: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=958
the post title in the source language: Analog Hole Bill Would Impose a Secret Law

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Pedro Jorge
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Dixon Servicios Lingüísticos,SL

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Does anyone knows if language123.com has a blog?, found the site a few days ago and I have to say it is a great resource for translation jobs.

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Can we be expecting something for 2008. I was Googling around and found this. It seems very interesting. Here in San Antonio, we have a few literary circles and since we are so multicultural, language and translations are always a big part of that. Keep us updated!

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