In this issue: Solveig Rose-Mollard, Key Account Manager & Translator<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Normally, I don\u2019t think much of New Year\u2019s resolutions. The way I see it, if I want to change something in my life, why not do it now? In 2021, however, I took a different approach: I resolved to do regular weight training in the basement (a kind of exercise I find incredibly boring in all its variations) so that I\u2019d be ready when it was time to go back to badminton and start competing again. That worked a treat \u2013 at least, for two weeks! After that, I felt drawn more to the outdoors, with my trainers, inline skates or bike. So at least I can\u2019t complain about endurance problems now.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I often have the impression that texts are frequently enriched with keywords to grab the reader\u2019s attention. The reason is that in our fast-reading age, target audiences tend to skim over content or their eye leaps around a text out of sequence. This sometimes blurs the link between parts of a sentence or among trains of thought. It\u2019s not something you\u2019ll pick up on if you\u2019re just reading, but when translating, it can be very tricky to correctly interpret what the text is trying to say and convey that message in the target language without disregarding the keywords \u2013 after all, there\u2019s good reason for putting them in in the first place. On the plus side, this approach usually results in very idiomatic turns of phrase that seem authentic and not \u201csimply translated\u201d. And there\u2019s another advantage to this apparent textual weakness, namely that it shows why machine translation sometimes simply fails: it doesn\u2019t have the ability to read behind the words for linguistic or cultural nuance, so what it makes of this kind of copy leaves readers in most languages thoroughly perplexed.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not exactly an animal name, but there\u2019s an interesting parallel between animal idioms in Germany and France: To emphasise an adjective in colloquial spoken German, we add \u201csau\u201d, meaning \u201cpig\u201d, to it: \u201csaugut\u201d, \u201csauschwer\u201d, \u201csauwichtig\u201d \u2013 pig-good, pig-heavy, pig-important. In France, they do the same, only based on the word for \u201ccow\u201d: \u201cvachement bon\u201d, \u201cvachement int\u00e9ressant\u201d \u2013 cow-good, cow-interesting. Although I\u2019ve been using both these modifiers for the longest time, it\u2019s only recently that I noticed this connection \u2013 and when I did, I was \u201cudderly\u201d amused \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Depends on what\u2019s in it. Meaning, I usually tend to see the positive in a situation. So to stay with the image, I would say \u201chalf full\u201d about a nice glass of red wine. If, on the other hand, life pours me a bitter herbal tea, I can console myself by seeing that it is \u201calready half empty\u201d.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
There\u2019s rarely a traffic jam on the way from the bedroom to my office at home, and I can easily move my workplace to the garden as soon as it hits 20 degrees outside. Working from home also means I can be much more flexible in organising my leisure time and family time than if I had to drive home from the office first. To put it in the words of my banker: it\u2019s the optimumest option.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Why \u201cor\u201d? During our holiday in Ireland, we hiked to Sheep\u2019s Head. After a rather steep rocky climb, there was suddenly a huge lake at our feet and behind it the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean \u2013 breathtakingly beautiful!<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s been a good 18 months since our last interviews with Klein Wolf Peters. Quite a lot has happened since then (understatement of the year!). Time for some questions to help us return to a semblance of normality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[97,37,98,99,593,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}