Wie die Ideen von Charles Babbage #AnalyticalEngine , Ada Lovelace #TranslatorsNotes , Alan Turing #TuringTest und Robert Searle #ChineseRoom miteinander zusammenhängen.
#translatorsnotes absolute truth always: Double the time and money you spend on getting a good copywriter to sort out the original and thereby halve the effort that goes into everything that follows – including translation.
In #translatorsnotes today: I've now #translated enough synopses of cop shows to know that each episode needs either a plastic surgeon or a pharma-bigwig as the conceited arsehole in the story.
In #translatorsnotes today, I love how the German “familiäre Atmosphäre” cannot quite match up with either "familiar" (too broad) or "familial" (too specific) "atmosphere" in the context I'm working with.