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Tiina Tuominen @tiinaktuominen.bsky.social · 9d

Today, we celebrate translators and interpreters and their invaluable contributions to society. A special shout-out to subtitlers, whose work helps us enjoy global audiovisual culture. If you want to celebrate some more, join our subtitle chat tomorrow! Happy International Translation Day! #ITD2025

Hannah Silvester @silvesterh.bsky.social · 9d

Happy International Translation Day! Join us for our Subtitle Chat tomorrow - share your story with @subcomm.bsky.social. Still time to sign up and join us on zoom tomorrow at 3pm! www.subcomm.co.uk/events

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subcomm.bsky.social @subcomm.bsky.social · 13d

Happy Friday! We wrote a blog post to share some updates from the past few months and to remind you of the upcoming Subtitle Chat. If you'd like to read about our recent publications and past and future SubComm activities, click below!

subcomm.co.uk/uncategorize...

SubComm Updates – SubComm

subcomm.co.uk

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Tiina Tuominen @tiinaktuominen.bsky.social · 20d

I really enjoy hosting Subtitle Chats, because I always learn something and make new connections, and they are a lot of fun. If you are a professional, academic or student interested in subtitling, please consider joining us on 1 October!

subcomm.bsky.social @subcomm.bsky.social · 20d

Subtitle Chats are back! If you are an academic, professional or student interested in subtitling, please join us (on Zoom) on 1 October at 3pm UK/Irish time. Our theme is Share Your Story, and we look forward to hearing about your career paths. Register here: events.humanitix.com/subtitle-cha...

Subtitle Chats: Share your story

An online networking event for academics, practitioners, and anyone else interested in subtitling.

events.humanitix.com

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 21d

Let’s mock them still

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Morten Beckmann @mortenbeckmann.bsky.social · 22d

Job opportunity: Two PhD Positions at Stockholm University, Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies, Sweden. Deadline for application: October 15. Link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Doktorand i översättningsvetenskap

Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet är en av de större institutionerna inom Humanistiska fakulteten med ca 140 anställda och ca 5 000 studenter per läsår. Tolk- och översättarinstitu

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Tiina Tuominen @tiinaktuominen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Do you want an instant coffee machine or an experienced barista for your translations? The customer may not always be able to tell the difference between good and bad coffee. Translators must be able to explain and sell their value. - James Phillips, WIPO

Speaker in front of an image of an instant coffee machine.

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Tiina Tuominen @tiinaktuominen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Dorothea Baur at the FIT World Congress. If you want to catch more conversations about AI, language, translation and interpreting, you can still register for streaming access and also watch the recording of this keynote and the rest of the streamed content until Sunday. More info: fit2025.org

Speaker next to a banner for the FIT World Congress 2025. In the background, there is a slide that says: "Data flattens. It distorts. And it quietly erases the richness of human life."

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AVÜ @avue.bsky.social · Aug 25

Several sessions on AVT at the upcoming FIT World Congress in Geneva next week, including a panel on AVT and AI on Friday, 5th September with our chairwoman Bettina Arlt among other people.🥳
For those of you attending/streaming, pop by!
Here's the progamme ⬇️
fitift.eventsair.com/fit2025/prog...

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Tiina Tuominen @tiinaktuominen.bsky.social · Aug 22

Mainio esimerkki herkullisesta suomen kielen verbistä ja sen kääntämisen vaikeudesta!

Ian Mac Eochagáin @maceochi.bsky.social · Aug 22

Välillä vanha sana osuu taas tutkalleni ja jään miettimään sitä. Tänään se on supisuomalainen verbi ”kunnostautua”. Rapean ja jääkylmän ironinen. Siinä on ytyä. Mutta miten kääntäisin sen englanniksi?
Uutta blogissani!
www.galvia.fi/post/mik%C3%...

Mikä on ”kunnostautua” englanniksi?

Sanassa on makean rapeaa ja jääkylmää suomalaisuutta.

https://www.galvia.fi/post/mikä-on-kunnostautua-englanniksi

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · Aug 15

starting to suspect my neighbor is a large language model

Cardboard box of apples that says “Free Lemons”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Aug 1

Today is August 1.

Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.

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Maarit Koponen @mtkopon.bsky.social · Jul 29

The historical and cultural context of language is also very significant in translation. Knowing the background of terms, expressions, allusions etc. and what cultural, historical and intertextual connections and connotations they carry in the source & target is a major issue

WIRED @wired.com · Jul 29

AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000. www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT

AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000.

www.wired.com

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Tiina Tuominen @tiinaktuominen.bsky.social · Jul 24

Onnea, kaima!

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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · Jul 20

Stanley Unwin, The Bookseller, 1927. Plus ça change #translatorhistory

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AVÜ @avue.bsky.social · Jul 19

Again: Viewers, critics, cinephiles,
BE LOUD!!
Demand quality!
Yours is probably the only voice that matters to those corporations (besides their shareholders'...)
#HumanNotMachines

Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · Jul 18

I've spoken to LSP executives who "claim" that Disney, MGM, etc. "don't want quality subtitles", which is why they're now using MTPE for subtitles. These entertainment companies think their audiences will be OK with "a certain level of mediocrity".

We consumers need to demand quality.

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers @fromthevoid.net · Jul 18

Full support to our fellow translators from AVTE.

While not being surprising coming from such a profit-oriented transnational corporation, it is still utterly disappointing and disgusting.

Using MT is a conscious 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 they make.

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AVÜ @avue.bsky.social · Jul 15

Once again pointing out that you can look up bad apples in the translation agency world at Tri-Trab's website - where you also can anonymously report a bad apple if you happen to come across one.
tri-trab.com
#nodumpingrates #humansnotmachines #respectyourAVTranslator

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AVÜ @avue.bsky.social · Jul 11

Disney greift für die Übersetzung ihrer Produktionen mehr und mehr auf Machine Translation zurück.
Qualität ade.😡
Was für ein elendes Trauerspiel.

Film- und Serienfans, Filmschaffende, Kritiker*innen, Kolleg*innen, make some noise!!

Hier die Reaktion unseres Dachverbands AVTE.
#HumansNotMachines

$Much to our suprise, we see more and more translation jobs for The Walt Disney Company reduced to machine translation post-editing - and this happens all over the world. We are shocked to find out it's Disney themselves that forces this solution. One can't but wonder if filmmakers - who put so much effort into their series and features and who spend endless hours refining editing and sound engineering - are aware of what happens with their work at the very last leg of its delivery to the non-English viewer. It's hard to understand this policy, since it takes a scant fraction of the total production cost to deliver a hight-quality language localization, while MTPE yields a product of much worse quality. Reducing foreign language versions of a Disney production to MTPE is like coating a hight-perfomance sports car with builder-grade paint. AVTE - Audiovisual Translators Europe$

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𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers @fromthevoid.net · Jul 7

Dear translators, please remember not to accept a job from Localize Direct (this is their usual modus operandi).

Dear devs, please remember not to hire Localize Direct (unless you're willing to spend lots of time & energy fighting in order to credit the actual people who worked on your game).

Loc in Credits @locincredits.bsky.social · Jun 30

In #CastandChill, by @wombatbrawler.com, translators are NOT in the credits, only the agency, Localize Direct, is.

The game is available in 12 languages.
#TranslatorsinTheCredits.

Screnshoot from the credits section of Cast and Chill crediting everyone involved but the translators. The background is a pixelated image of a lake with some mountains full of trees.
It reads:
Credits
Artist and animator
Lara Durham

Thee song music composer
Ryan Ike

Background game music
Licensed from Space Banjo

Lead sound designer
Tobias Trstenjak

Localization
Localize Direct

Fonts
Lanapixel font, copyright 2020-2023 eishiya
Zpix font by Jason Feng
Silkscreen font by Jason Kottke.

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AVÜ @avue.bsky.social · Jul 7

Our President Bettina Arlt will be part of Tiinas panel, together with representatives of AVTE ✨

Tiina Tuominen @tiinaktuominen.bsky.social · Jul 7

The full programme of the FIT World Congress has now been published, and to celebrate, you can register at a reduced rate until 27 July! I will be there to moderate a panel on audiovisual translation, and looking forward to seeing many interesting talks.

See you in Geneva!

fit2025.org

Home page - XXIII FIT World Congress

fit2025.org

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Tiina Tuominen @tiinaktuominen.bsky.social · Jul 7

The full programme of the FIT World Congress has now been published, and to celebrate, you can register at a reduced rate until 27 July! I will be there to moderate a panel on audiovisual translation, and looking forward to seeing many interesting talks.

See you in Geneva!

fit2025.org

Home page - XXIII FIT World Congress

fit2025.org

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FIT Europe @fiteurope.bsky.social · Jul 2

📰 The new issue of #Translatio is now available online in #English, #Spanish and #French with two articles written by the European associations AIT and AITI. Happy reading!
en: en.translatio.fit-ift.org
es: es.translatio.fit-ift.org
fr: fr.translatio.fit-ift.org

#xl8 #1nt #FITEuropeAssociations

Home page - FIT Translatio EN

The newsletter of the International Federation of Translators Click here Share your news with the FIT community FIT member associations are encouraged to share what they’re up to by submitting article...

en.translatio.fit-ift.org

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SUBTLE - the Subtitlers' Association @subtleuk.bsky.social · Jul 2

If you're impacted by late payments or exploitative working conditions, remember you can report companies anonymously using the Translation Industry Transparency Board, TRI-TRAB (tri-trab.com).

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · Jul 1

Translation isn't expensive. In fact, it's frequently the biggest return on investment:

For the top 100 grossing movies of all time, 50% of their profits were made outside of English, and they spent less than 1% of their budget on localization.

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Tiina Tuominen @tiinaktuominen.bsky.social · Jul 1

Many thanks to JAT for an extremely well run review and publication process!

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Tiina Tuominen @tiinaktuominen.bsky.social · Jul 1

I'm pleased to share that my article on user-centered subtitling has been published by the Journal of Audiovisual Translation. The aim of the article is to explore how the ideas of usability and user-centeredness could help us create audience-friendly subtitles. jatjournal.org/index.php/ja...

User-Centred Subtitling: Usability as an Assessment and Process Framework for Interlingual Subtitles | Journal of Audiovisual Translation

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