Arline Lyons

BSc, MA, MITI, AMRSB. Japanese to English translation. Japanese sake, tea, coffee, chocolate, biology. こだわりありの日英翻訳者。日本酒、茶、コーヒー、チョコレート、生物学。

[Arline Lyons @arlinelyons]

(Don't think I've ever so guilty as when I removed the pages. Awaiting punishment from the Book God's for being a negligent book parent. Anything but the heatwave not ending...)

[Arline Lyons @arlinelyons]

While I personally believe heatwaves have no redeeming features, I think this one has spared me a decision about whether to destroy a book binding for scanning. Laid the book flat and it just fell apart...

[Arline Lyons @arlinelyons]

QCing. Have to disagree with both the translator and reviewer who think it's fine to translate two terms with acronyms EOT and EOS both as "end of study". (If anyone sees my will to live... please look after it Friday?)

[Arline Lyons @arlinelyons]

QCing a translated file already delivered by two people (translator, reviser). All paragraphs are set to allow line breaks in the middle of words. Essential for JP, sure. But no-one thought to change it for EN?

[Arline Lyons @arlinelyons]

Well deserved for this fantastic sake, and a great showing from Nagano and Miyagi!
#sake #nihonshu #sakenews #nihonshunews #internationalwinechallenge #iwcsake #nagano
https://t.co/SlHrw4izSr

[Arline Lyons @arlinelyons]

Reviewing. Pregnant male rats, teratogenic pregnancies, learned societies that don't exist and 30% not being significantly different from 0%. (Missing a decimal point there.) Taking much longer than the wordcount looked like it should...

😱😭🤬

[Emma Goldsmith @GoldsmithTrans]

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[David Goldberg @rotoscopic]

Programs like Google Translate and DeepL are indeed substitutes for translation, but in my opinion they are POOR substitutes.

It's an automatic dictionary lookup on a tremendous scale, without any of the thought, understanding, or care that human-generated translation contains.

[Lynne Bowker @bowkerl]

It's here! Help raise awareness about #Translation with this #OpenAccess textbook "De-mystifying Translation: Introducing Translation to Non-translators" @routledgelang Please share LINK (not PDF) with students (for tracking views/downloads). https://t.co/l099z2GOl6

[GeneticsUnzipped @GeneticsUnzip]

Do not mistake confidence for competence:

👍The people with the strongest views in support of genetics tend to understand the facts very well.

👎The people with the strongest views against genetics tend not to understand the facts.

Find out more: https://t.co/H4pZoqDSVN

[Arline Lyons @arlinelyons]

@Lillie_Langtry @ChrisDurbanFR "Does this even need to be translated?" might have negative short term consequences (project cancelled) but positive long term effects. How clients react to questions is also interesting information!

[Chris Durban @ChrisDurbanFR]

Hugely important issue for translators. A direct path to premium clients -- and one that separates genuinely skilled linguists from the word replacers/automats. We should all be asking more questions https://t.co/FswZfPgUUl

[EIUI @EIUI_Dal]

Why do people hold negative views about science esp. when serious issues, eg climate change, affect them? In @PLOSBiology Fonseca et al. @GenSocUK found people with extreme views (negative or positive) were often overconfident of their knowledge of science https://t.co/h9zm51SnFN

[Chris Durban @ChrisDurbanFR]

More food for thought (from G Marcus) that mirrors many linguists' experience of automated xlation sol'ns.
The CNET Fake News Fiasco, Autopilot, and the Uncanny Cognitive Valley https://t.co/DGMrYewFoe

[日本翻訳者協会 @jat_org]

【発表者募集】第 31 回英日日英翻訳国際会議（IJET-31）(2023 年 6 月 24、25 日、東京ビッグサイト)での発表者を募集しています。今年のテーマは「翻訳通訳の可視性」です。詳細 と 応 募 方 法 に つ い て は 以 下 を ご 参 照 く だ さ い 。
https://t.co/mxRBgKJDzg

[IJET Conference @IJET_Conference]

IJET-31 will be held at Tokyo on June 24 to 25, 2023. New location, new theme, new committee. The website is now live and we will be adding information as it comes available. Follow us here or @jat_org for the latest updates. https://t.co/RosMMvxofL

[Chris Durban @ChrisDurbanFR]

Common xlation dilemma: buyer can't judge the quality of work purchased. "Supplier" shoots texts into black hole in space & moves on... until a qualified party speaks up. "Co. to refund FEMA for botched Yup’ik and Iñupiaq translations" https://t.co/wiKf4in7Yp via @AKPublicNews

[Chris Durban @ChrisDurbanFR]

Good news! The (re-)recording of our session at #2022TEF on "Tips for freelance translators on how to identify and enter premium markets" is now available to one and all online. Feedback welcome. #xl8
https://t.co/Qee8XaPV82

[Arline Lyons @arlinelyons]

@RichardMedh So true.