Lori Thicke

Author, entrepreneur, founder of Translators without Borders and Lexcelera. Currently writing Dacker’s Daughter about my nomadic life with an unusual father.

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Great news for those of us who speak a second language every day. https://t.co/3G8hfcEng9 @TranslatorsWB

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Looking at the world with Mohawk language eyes to keep a dying language alive

(Free access from @nytimes . https://t.co/aXBHuXTHre

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'Translators don’t play second fiddle to authors, it’s more like a duet.’

Read interviews with @Gospodinov68 snd @rodel_angela, author and translator of 'Time Shelter', longlisted for the #InternationalBooker2023.

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Meet the people fighting for the survival of the Breton language https://t.co/0RYg9dhr5L via @FRANCE24

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Two of the Best Translators in the Business Are Married (to Each Other) and Up For the Same Literary Award https://t.co/220vfzozXs via @lithub

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Dreams do come true! What happened after I sold my company https://t.co/cLkD5QQYN0 via @LinkedIn

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You can hear Mayan rap on the #WakandaForever soundtrack but indigenous language speakers are discriminated against in Mexico #LanguageMatters @translatorswb https://t.co/7QxePDXxe4

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Forever in awe of Ukrainian librarians. Via @lorithicke
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Also great to see translators on the front page of the New York Times! @nytimes #Hamilton #translators

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Translating Hamilton into German? Another example of translators rocking a really hard job. https://t.co/pYI4T9ZsEb

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Translating Hamilton into German? Another example of translators rocking a really hard job. https://t.co/pYI4T9ZsEb

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I just find it so interesting that people will fight for their language as the key to their identity. https://t.co/A6j74ZUGZI

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EU border agency accused of exploiting interpreters ‘paid under €2.50 an hour’ This is shocking. Can we do something about this? https://t.co/Ldq6ue21Pb

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Translators deserve more credit for making books shine in another language. Let’s keep up the pressure for the recognition they deserve. #TranslatorsOnTheCover @nytimes (No paywall) https://t.co/sbjscm8iAS

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I like this quote from Cicero about avoiding word-for-word translations: “I did not think I ought to count [the words] out to the reader like coins, but to pay them by weight, as it were.”

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“Not word for word but sense for sense” — St Jerome describing #translating the Bible from Greek into Latin. As true today as it was in the 4th century.

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Are scientific breakthroughs being lost in translation? Just one more reason why translators matter. https://t.co/FkebSfdXH8

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Translators and interpreters are heroes.

The hope and the horror: my week as an interpreter on Ukraine’s border https://t.co/hzc2LD4xTK

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How did I not know about the International Booker prize for fiction in translation? Fantastic shout out for the literary translators of the world who should share fully in the glory of their work, which has to be at least as good as the original. https://t.co/zKkMYrFQhM

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@Duolingo published this useful article about #Ukrainian and #Russian languages - the similarities and the differences. Thank you for supporting vital communication efforts in this difficult time for many.