Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
Translation and the Meaning of Everything
by David Bellos · first published 2011
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Funny and surprising on every page, Is That a Fish in Your Ear offers readers new insight into the mystery of how we come to know what someone else means whether we wish to understand Asteerix cartoons or a foreign head of state. Using translation as his lens, David Bellos shows how much we can learn about ourselves by exploring the ways we use translation, from the historical roots of written language to the stylistic choices of Ingmar Bergman, from the United Nations General Assembly to the significance of James Camerons Avatar. Is That a Fish in Your Ear ranges across human experience to de
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I recommend the book "Is that a fish in your ear? Translation and the meaning of everything" [1] which covers all aspects of translation in an interesting and entertaining way. He describes simultaneous translators as extreme athletes, and I think…
on “Simultaneous Interpreting (2013)” ↗There are some numbers for this in David Bellos "Is that a fish in your ear?"[1], chapter 19. An UNESCO study of translations between Swedish, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, French, German and English over a decade showed that 104,000 of the 132,000 translations made between all those…
on “A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics” ↗