Rambles from a Supposed Translator

"More information results in less meaning. The number of e-mail messages continually increases in the in-box but there are no epiphanies, only stress and witlessness"
p 65, Cronin, "Translation and Globalization"

That's pretty much the name of my course.

Globalization is not recognized by gmail as a word.

I read something else which compared translators to magicians, except that everyone wants to know the how of magic, but no one cares about the how of translation. But both are equally expected to perform. There's a lot more to translation than you or I can imagine. Maybe at the end of this program I will be able to elaborate more. Right now I am sifting through a lot of information that I am having trouble processing.

Many translators have died for the cause. Recently, in Iraq. Bilingual Iraqis (or actual Iraqi interpreters) hired by Americans lead very dangerous lives. Perhaps people should care more? And not just when they make mistakes...but that's the nature of our world.

That just took an unexpected turn. Uhh...awkward.

Banter of the Best Variety

"In spite of considerable talk about the "death of distance" and "the end of geography," computer technology appears to accentuate the importance of place, both physical and virtual."

From: "The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory" Chapter: "Webs of Myth and Power" by Vincent Mosco (there are no page numbers to cite).

I hate to say that this describes my relationship with several friends. While email, blogs and photo-sharing brings us closer together, it emphasizes the physical distance between us. It's a very basic interpretation of what this means.

Lately I've been attempting to blog more but in shorter posts. It's not going so well. Maybe more short thoughts. I should see if I can text my blog or something, so if you see posts that look like this "toronto is gr8 i want 2 note here" you will surely understand why.

Using too many unsuitable adjectives as always,

yours truly,

Hana

Really?

After 4 days of downloading 6 episodes of some show I didn't really want to watch, I found out they were all dubbed in Italian. Seriously?

Comments...and questions

All right so here's something I've meant to post for a while and I really don't know what to say about it:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1773014

And there's this, which for one reason or another needed to look up:

Never Ever...

During my web surfing, I came across this: http://www.beingfamous.com/blog/wordpress/?p=488

A guy listing all the things he's never done and encourages other people to list theirs. After looking at his list, I've done everything on there (as I'm sure most people have). I kept trying to think of other things so I could be cool and create a list myself. On my own, the only thing I could come up with was: never ate bacon/ham and also places I've never been. It was kind of annoying until I realised that it's probably a good thing I couldn't list things I've never done since it's good to try new things/not live avoiding things.

After looking over other people's list I've gotten this:
1. never eaten ham/bacon, etc.
2. never gone snowboarding
3. watched a reality show from start to finish (I've caught clips here and there, actually kind of glad about this one)
4. been a boy band fan
5. read or watched Harry Potter


What's the point of this list? It's not like it's anything I want to do.