Call out to my translator friends: I'm collecting recent instances of genAI mistranslations for use in class, particularly involving French, German and English. Would be glad to see any examples you've come across.

Some movie credits run for over ten minutes, but many manga translators have to beg for clients to even allow their work to be listed on a private portfolio, let alone anywhere that the public can actually see and use, and manga production teams are *significantly* smaller. It's obscene, honestly.

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on December 8th on Blu-ray in the US from #NeonEagleVideo: #GoForBroke (1985)! When a school full of wimps gets repeatedly plundered by a teenage biker gang, the student council decides to hire a crew of “yojimbo” (bodyguards) to defend themselves.

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on December 8th on Blu-ray in the US from #NeonEagleVideo: #ATrueStoryOfThePrivateGinzaPolice (1973)! Following Japan’s defeat in WW2, a group of restless former soldiers (Toei yakuza eiga veterans Noburu Ando, Tatsuo Umemiya, Hideo Murota, and Tsunehiko Watase)

Wouldn't mind adding a few video game reviewers to our freelancer pool if anyone is looking to pick up some work. We get codes across the spectrum of releases. ANN's policy is always 2 weeks per review (no overnight embargo deadlines!). Send published examples to Lynzee@AnimeNewsNetwork.com

Molly is right - democracy itself is set to be crushed if Reform sneaks a majority. The case for a switch to a proportional system, where they simply cannot do this with a twenty-something vote share, BEFORE the next election grows by the day, and the PM cannot keep ruling this out.

Molly Scott Cato@greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 3d ago

There could be no clearer signal that Reform propose to be a fascist government The purpose of a state of emergency is to suspend constitutional requirements Politicians and journalists who are committed to democracy should understand and act accordingly www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

When THE INUGAMI FAMILY gathers to discuss their late patriarch's inheritance, grisly murders ensue. This murder mystery from Kon Ichikawa, a massive hit in Japan, is now available on UK / US Blu-ray for the first time ever. Shipping NOW from our site ahead of its 14/11 release

Shaw Brothers star Chen Kuan-tai has passed away. From Susan Shaw's Facebook: "The best film—Gallants. Tai, have a safe journey! In the end, you still owe me an answer: where did you hide all that money you made? Say hello to Bruce for me when you see him."

***NEW TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT*** THE SACRED & THE CURSED: THE JOKO ANWAR COLLECTION 4 OF JOKO ANWAR’S MOST ACCLAIMED FILMS
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WITH 10+ COMBINED HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES Disc 1: SATAN’S SLAVES (2017) Trailer Link: youtu.be/h4il9doeOIY

SATAN'S SLAVES (2017) TRAILER - THE SACRED & THE CURSED: THE JOKO ANWAR COLLECTION - DISC 1

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Booklet with essay by film writer Hayley Scanlon English subtitles Trailer: youtu.be/uzBLcCr3RFU vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/... #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #VinegarSyndrome #OCNDistribution #FilmMovement #HiroshiShoji

Tatsumi (2023) | Trailer | Hiroshi Shoji

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***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Now available to order on Blu-ray and shipping at the end of this month in the US from the @vinsyn.bsky.social website from #OCNDistribution #PartnerLabel @filmmovement.bsky.social: #Tatsumi (2022)! This special edition slipcover (designed by Poochamin) is limited to 1,000 units

Bora Chung's novel-in-stories Midnight Timetable, translated by @antonhur.com, is shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Very few characters in this book are named, and here, Bora speaks about those names and what they mean. youtu.be/HE1YM5jBm0U?...

Bora Chung introduces "Midnight Timetable"

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Can anyone help identify this actress? Probably Taiwanese.

JFF Theater will start free streaming of 3 films by acclaimed director KUROSAWA Kiyoshi .Including “Pulse,” winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as “Bright Future” and “License to Live.” Start 2 September #japan #cinema #jfftheater #filmsky #moviesky 📽️ en.jff.jpf.go.jp

in case you’re not aware, this account @ politicsuk . com is owned by Reform counsellor Bailey Nash-Gardner. They claim that Politics UK is independently run day-to-day by a separate editorial team, but. More in link below.

"Translators must defend their role not by competing with artificial intelligence (AI) on speed, but by taking responsibility for the cultural and ethical choices embedded in their work" With quotes from an expert at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies! www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/bo...

AI can translate words, but doesn't bear responsibility, experts say - The Korea Times

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The list of submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2026 is now available on our webpage. The prize is in its 10th year and we're delighted to have received a record number of submissions from a record number of languages! 🎉 tinyurl.com/32ms3tsy

East Asian cinema on the big screen over the next 10 days. #asiancinema #terracottastore #eastasiancinema #cinema #screenings #filmfan

hell yeah

Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 2w ago

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social discusses the craft & need for human translation. Then, a Rāmāyana movie, a huge new Sardis statue, the ancient jade trade in Canada, a Dolly tribute, new ancient world journals via @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social, & much more. Let’s go!

My translation of Kyōko Hayashi's "The Bride at Sixty," published as a digital art book with Erika Kobayashi's illustrations by her independent publishing house, arbaro books, is now available as a PDF for those who wish to abstain from dealing with Amazon! arbarobooks.gumroad.com/l/feywhn?lay...

The Bride at Sixty

PDF DownloadKyoko Hayashi's The Bride at Sixty— First English Translation of a Late Masterpiece by an Akutagawa Prize-Winning Hibakusha Author, out of print, now reborn as a digital art book.Kindle Ed...

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A TV Exec.'s nine mistresses conspire with his wife to have him killed, with the plan continuing after they discover he faked his own death.

Loads of bollocks in here some you might want to read (No I don’t have time To social things properly) www.londoncentric.media/p/prince-cha...

Prince Charles Cinema closure threat returns

Plus: Restaurants charging diners to pay the bill • Bring back the Woking 925 • Forest bike crime spree • TfL weight-loss advert loophole

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Check out these Dazai stories translated by the brilliant Ralph McCarthy. Self-published, so word-of-mouth needed to let people know about them. In Ralph’s words, ‘The Ohson stories may be “niche” Dazai, but the humor is strong and the content is meaty. Enjoy!’ Pls share! #booksky #translation

What Irish, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic sound like - such an interesting comparison! It reminded me of how hard it is to learn a language whose sound is unfamiliar to us. In the 80s & before internet, I tried with Romanian. Today, we can spread the sounds. ❤️ #GoodMorning, everyone

Tim Curry will forever be the Lord of Darkness for me but his performance in The Worst Witch is also one for the books. youtu.be/K6089Z_NgPk?...

The Worst Witch (1986) "Halloween Song"

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山田裕貴×阪元裕吾「スーパーモブニンジャ」プライムビデオで来年2月より世界独占配信 “モブたち”が覚醒して鬼退治！ アクション監督は園村健介 https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/686731?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social #スーパーモブニンジャ

Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80

Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80

A prolific performer across stage, screen and TV, the actor starred in Legend, Clue and It, but will always be associated with the flamboyantly camp rock’n’roll musical in which he made his breakthrough Tim Curry, the versatile performer of screen and stage, who made his name as the flamboyant Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, has died aged 80. Reports said Curry died at his home in Los Angeles. Ironically, Curry’s best-known roles all required a considerable physical transformation, to the extent that he was unrecognisable in all of them. Frank-N-Furter, Rocky Horror’s deranged scientist, saw him daubed in garish makeup and wearing stockings and suspenders, for the stage show (which debuted in 1973) and the film adaptation (released in 1975). In the Ridley Scott-directed fantasy Legend (1985), he was equipped with giant horns and scarlet skin as the Lord of Darkness. And in 1990, Curry was transformed with full-face clown pancake to play Pennywise in the TV miniseries It, based on the Stephen King novel. Continue reading...

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OP is joking but let’s play around and drag Kanji into this The glyph 青 is an ancient character Meanings: Literary Chinese: blue/green Modern Chinese: green (Cantonese now is closer to lime) Modern Japanese: blue Old Japanese: green It sometimes means black too because er, it also means youth

Andrew Robbins@robbinsa.me · 2w ago

japanese: more chinese than mandarin, apparently

You come into my restaurant and you place an order, not just for meat buns, but for a specific Chinese woman’s meat buns. Your grandmother’s. So I learn Chinese and fly to China, where she gives me the recipe. Months later I return to find you warm and comfortable in your chair at the table.

Mary@sharpestrose.bsky.social · 2w ago

I could write volumes about the Orientalism inherent in expecting translated Asian texts to be somehow intrinsically different in vocabulary and metre to native English. They're not foreign and exotic to local readers, why on earth would you want them to be different for you if you want authenticity

We could also make clear that there are various Chinese languages, not one Chinese language and many dialects.

Thomas Batchelor@tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 2w ago

We really need to retire the term "Chinese language", something that refers to many separate languages but at the same time just one, and that just one changes every so often