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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Happy Thursday to all who are observing Thursday today. 🙃

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/12/2025

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Authors, remember that you CAN insist on human translation for your foreign-language editions and have it written into your contracts. You can no longer just assume you're going to get a human to work on the book whose every word you wrote with intent.

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Video: Using AI to Create Bilingual Glossaries from Reliable Bilingual Documents. I demonstrate this using official pharmaceutical documentation, but you can use this approach in other fields, too. #translation #translators #glossary

Using AI to create bilingual glossaries from reliable bilingual documents

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I had a wonderful time this past week at the Guadalajara International Book Fair, meeting with publishers and agents and attending great workshops run by the Institut Ramon Llull. As part of the fair, I also gave the closing keynote address at the Mexican Translators Organization (OMT) conference.

Me standing next to a life-size statue of one of the characters from the Astérix comics: the alchemist Getafix.

Me at the Guadalajara International Book Fair, in the stand of a cookbook publisher.

The Spain stand at the Guadalajara International Book Fair.

Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

My new video: How to translate film scripts in a CAT tool. Is it possible to translate Final Draft® files in the CAT tools that professional translators use? Yes, but it’s complicated... #AVtranslation #translation #translators #CATtools

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How to translate film scripts in a CAT tool

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Hello from the American Literary Translators Association conference in Arizona! Tonight was the annual theater-translation event: "Cold Beers and Cold Readings," including part of my translation of "Women on Radio" by Cristina Clemente. Some people are so good at unrehearsed performances! #ALTA48

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

What better place to work on translating a stage play into English than in the Drama Book Shop in New York? Soaking up the creative energy... #TranslatorsLife #translation #theater #theatre

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

My ego as a #translator is having an unusually good day. A publisher just referred to me as "the great Steven Capsuto" in a LinkedIn post, and I just read an interview with an author who thanked me for helping him make his book better. 😊 For a profession that usually gets ignored, that's all lovely.

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

In the past, when I gave lectures based on a book, it was always one I had written and I knew the content inside out. But now, in the US, I'm the public face of a 600-page book written by someone else, which I translated into English. #TranslatorsLife #translation #PublicSpeaking

Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

In the days after Charlie Kirk's death, half the internet sounds like that awful guy at the office who keeps going up to women coworkers and saying, "What are you talking about? Bob's a great guy! *I've* never heard him harass anyone!" #CreepyAssholes

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I'm now translating a wonderful new realist-drama play from Catalonia for a client: "Hands" by Llàtzer Garcia is a two-hander about a husband and wife, about recovery from mental illness, and about being caught between personal and professional needs. #theater #theatre #teatre #translation #català

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Just got advance copies of a book I translated into English: "When Einstein Met Kafka: Jewish Contributions to the Modern World" by the Spanish cultural historian @diegomoldes.bsky.social. The English edition comes out next week from Mandel Vilar Press. 😀 #translation #JewishBooks #JewishHistory

"When Einstein Met Kafka": A book I translated comes out on Sept. 15!

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I wake up troubled by deep political concerns, like... The week Margaret Thatcher died, the song "Ding, Dong! The Witch is Dead!" charted in the UK. What song will chart in the US if the rumors about Trump are true?

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I'm excited about next week's Evolving Linguist Conference (Sept. 6, New Brunswick, NJ) organized by the Delaware Valley Translators Association and Rutgers (my alma mater), among others. I'll arrive on 9/5, probably humming On the Banks of the Old Raritan." 😃 #translation #translators #DVTA #NYCT

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Annual Conference - The Delaware Valley Translators Association

Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

A lovely expression I wasn't previously familiar with: "Your booing means nothing to me, because I've seen what makes you cheer."

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

As Lily Tomlin said decades ago: "Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them."

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

This week's fun mix of translation-into-English projects: two TV scripts, a private client's academic record, and then back to the stage play I've been translating. 😎 #translation #TranslatorsLife

American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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“I've done almost every other kind of translation possible, but literature was out for me because of how much I love books,” Tejima says. “It was an untouchable thing. I was too scared to do it.” ICYMI: At The Japan Times, don't miss this feature on past ALTA mentee Yuki Tejima!

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Yuki Tejima's metamorphosis from bookworm to literary translator

An Instagram “bookfluencer” and professional translator for over 10 years, Tejima’s love of books was, strangely enough, a hurdle to working in literary translation.

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Same here. In the language pairs I translate most often (Spanish-English and Catalan-English), I can work from scratch much faster than I can edit a machine translation. If I had a special " #MTPE rate," it would be higher than my base rate. But instead, I only take #translation gigs.

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Felecia Commodore, PhD @feleciaelana.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I really want us to sit and consider that the Department of Justice is using their time and resources to read faculty senate statements that support having a diverse faculty. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

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Report: DOJ Investigating George Mason Faculty Senate

The Justice Department is now investigating the Faculty Senate at George Mason University after the panel backed the university president and affirmed that “diversity is our strength,” The New York Ti...

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

In 99 degree weather, I'm pretty sure ice cream counts as "health food."

Me in front of an ice cream parlor (with signage in Spanish).

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I don't know of this is an aftereffect of lockdown or what, but it seems people are so used to watching entertainment at home that they think it's okay and normal to have extensive conversations with each other at live #theater performances and take out their phones and text their friends. Rude.

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 27/07/2025

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RIP Tom Lehrer, truly one of the greatest to ever do it, a satirist beyond compare, a brilliant wordsmith, a cheeky fellow, I loved him and his work beyond reason.

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Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I'm currently reading Joachim Lépine's new book aimed at freelancers and especially at translators: "AI Resilient." I'm not far into it (and so can't say much about the book), but I'm struck by his take on the inadequacy of a lot of translation education...

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I just booked my tickets for the American Literary Translators Association conference, which will take place this November in Tucson. I look forward to seeing and learning from the smart, interesting, creative people who attend ALTA! #ALTA48 #translation #LiteraryTranslation #WorldLiterature

Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Whoever invented televisions that you can't turn off and on without a working TV remote is very naughty and needs to be punished.

Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

In the #translation of #theater scripts, the biggest change I've noticed over the last 15 years is that, unless there's something very culturally specific about a play, many contemporary playwrights now want their scripts adapted so they take place in the country where it's being performed.

Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

An early hi-fi recording of Klezmer music from the 1950s... a heart-thumpingy good track if you hear it with earphones or a good sound system. The lead clarinetist was Sam Musiker, who also played with Gene Krupa's and Glenn Miller's big bands. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngwZ...

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Sam's Bulgar

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I hope Daniel Hahn is right about human literary translators having a future. Also, if you're interested in the process of literary translation (or at least his process, which I have to say is very different from mine), check out his lovely book "Catching Fire: A Translation Diary."

Bryna O'Sullivan @charteroakgen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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The fundamental problem with this argument is that #AI is being touted as a replacement for a #translator when the user doesn't read the language... even when they're professional genealogists. If you don't read the language, how can you tell if the #translation is wrong? #genealogy

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

OMG, no one told me that the iconic Ladino singer Sarah Aroeste posted a book-review video about one of my English translations: Ángel Pulido's "Sephardic Jews and the Spanish Language"! I just stumbled across this randomly and damn near swooned. #Sephardic #Ladino #JewishBooks #JewishHistory

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Office of NYC Comptroller Mark Levine @nyccomptroller.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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Immigration court felt like a murderous reality show today. The judge granted two gentlemen asylum hearings in 2029. But it was all a sham—They were abducted by ICE before they left the building. There is more the City & the State must do. We cannot allow the rule of law to be eroded case by case.

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

#booksky

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

It's hard to get bored working as a translator, as long as the work keeps coming in (which it often doesn't). This week, I'm translating corporate registrations from English to Spanish, medical charts from Portuguese to English, and theater dialogue from Catalan to English. 😃

Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Woohoo! I was just hired to translate these wonderful new plays from Spain: Cristina Clemente's "Women on Radio" and Llàtzer Garcia's "Hands: An Imperfect Love Story." 😃 🎭 Both were written in Catalan and the translations are funded by the Institut Ramon Llull. #theater #WorldTheater #translation

Posters for two stage plays written in Catalan: Llàtzer Garcia's "Les mans" and Cristina Clemente's "Dones de ràdio."

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I now have Spanish and English versions of my new YouTube channel devoted to language geekery and translation. The English version: www.youtube.com/@linguacap Ya lancé la versión en español de mi canal de YouTube dedicado a curiosidades lingüísticas y a la traducción: www.youtube.com/@linguacaps_es

Karie Bookish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

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If you love the English translations of authors working in other languages, I recommend you keep track of the translator. Chances are they work across several authors - and they are mostly always linguistic chameleons whose work you will always enjoy.

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Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Hi! New account here! I work as a translator and will be posting about #language and the #translation industry. I've also just launched a YouTube channel on the same topics. Since I happen to be on vacation in Amherst, Mass., at the moment, my first video was shot at the #Yiddish Book Center.