William Barclay

Translator

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

@Svetka_in_Troy @Rustransdark Yes, lucky ... and ungrateful.

[RusTrans @Rustransdark]

Calling #Publishers and #literatureintranslation fans! RusTrans is delighted to present a summer special: feel the heat simmer in this excerpt from @WBtranslator's translation of #BulatKhanov's Gnev/Ire: https://t.co/cjN6B8EmAt

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

@Rustransdark Ha-ha, I love that gif! Thanks to the @Rustransdark team for all their wise words and support, such a positive and enjoyable project to be part of.

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

Ahead of England's Euro 2020 showdown with Germany my latest blog post 'The Euros, Psycho and Russian body parts' recalls Euro 96 and finds an unusual use for Stuart Pearce's physique. https://t.co/kkazWHqdfU #EURO2020 #Russian #xl8 #ENG #GER

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

@translationtalk Like Orwell's 'Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.' Not sure I agree with either.

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

@wordstodeeds Fantastic! Great resource.

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

@CharcoPress @danielhahn02 Love this series, so instructive and reassuring to those of us further down the rock face.

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

My latest blog post 'The peril of the patronymic' looks at how #Russian naming conventions can jar with an Anglophone audience. https://t.co/h0mwZE2ft3

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

@CathyMcAteer1 @Rustransdark Ha! Love it. 😂

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

Exactly a year since I sat down in #lockdown to start work on what was to become my @Rustransdark-backed literary #translation project - 'Gnev', #Russian author Bulat Khanov's dark portrayal of flawed masculinity.

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

Awful news from Kazan today.💔

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

...of course it requires great language skills from both but is way more efficient than relaying it all through an interpreter or, even slower, producing subtitles. 2/2

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

Been fascinated watching some of the 'in scene' #interpreting in the post-match tv interviews at the #cricket #IPL. The interviewer asks their question in (I'm guessing) Hindi and then translates it into English at the end, with the player doing the same in reply...1/2

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

Going to wade through this now - so useful!

[The Authors Guild @AuthorsGuild]

For the first time in at least 70 years, we are making our Model Trade Book Contract available to all.

We hope authors will find our model useful, as its terms and language are meant to increase transparency.

https://t.co/CUXdCROzKP

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

Favourite EN word discovery of the day is the delightfully suave 'amanuensis'.

Meaning one who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts; a copy-taker.

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

@SarahHudspith Thanks and yes, that one is the draft version - the problem is that it's a husband-wife conversation, so I'm looking for something a bit less formal sounding.

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

'With consummate circumlocution'?

'With the most slippery-tongued obfuscation'?!!!

😖

#russian 2/2

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

I'm often wrestling in the dead of night with the best English rendering of a phrase from something I'm working on. This one is driving me nuts: В ��амых обтекаемых формулировках (lit. 'in the most streamlined formulations') to describe someone speaking evasively) #xl8 1/2

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

@XBowXl8 Well done Sarah, it's never easy. But not only is it good for self-esteem, it's hopefully helping to protect rates for us all.

[William Barclay @WBtranslator]

@CoombesLanguage Every. Single. Day.