Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account)
@linguacaps.bsky.social
I post about language geekery and translation. I've been a full-time translator since 2003, providing human translations from Spanish, French, Catalan, Portuguese, and Ladino into English. Web: linguacaps.com. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@linguacap.
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Most Spanish words come from Latin, but did you know there are 2 different types?
Words inherited from spoken Latin vs. words borrowed from written Latin during the Middle Ages and after.
Some words took both routes, creating doublets.
Here’s episode 3 of my 10-part doublet series.
Next: Italian.
Words inherited from spoken Latin vs. words borrowed from written Latin during the Middle Ages and after.
Some words took both routes, creating doublets.
Here’s episode 3 of my 10-part doublet series.
Next: Italian.
December 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Happy Thursday to all who are observing Thursday today. 🙃
December 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Happy Thursday to all who are observing Thursday today. 🙃
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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.
December 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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.
Honestly, folks... You don't need to platform every horrific, vicious, infantile thing the president of the United States says.
Instead, boost the voices of the people he's saying them about. Ignore the angry-toddler tantrums unless they have policy implications.
Instead, boost the voices of the people he's saying them about. Ignore the angry-toddler tantrums unless they have policy implications.
December 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Honestly, folks... You don't need to platform every horrific, vicious, infantile thing the president of the United States says.
Instead, boost the voices of the people he's saying them about. Ignore the angry-toddler tantrums unless they have policy implications.
Instead, boost the voices of the people he's saying them about. Ignore the angry-toddler tantrums unless they have policy implications.
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
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
YouTube video by Steven Capsuto - Translation & Language Services
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December 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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
I demonstrate this using official pharmaceutical documentation, but you can use this approach in other fields, too.
#translation #translators #glossary
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.
As part of the fair, I also gave the closing keynote address at the Mexican Translators Organization (OMT) conference.
December 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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.
As part of the fair, I also gave the closing keynote address at the Mexican Translators Organization (OMT) conference.
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
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
How to translate film scripts in a CAT tool
YouTube video by Steven Capsuto - Translation & Language Services
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December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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
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
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
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
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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
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
Today's grammar lesson...
September 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Today's grammar lesson...
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
#TranslatorsLife #translation #theater #theatre
September 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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
#TranslatorsLife #translation #theater #theatre
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.
September 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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.
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
#TranslatorsLife #translation #PublicSpeaking
September 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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
#TranslatorsLife #translation #PublicSpeaking
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
September 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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
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
September 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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
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
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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September 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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
The English edition comes out next week from Mandel Vilar Press. 😀 #translation #JewishBooks #JewishHistory
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Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
August 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
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?
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?
August 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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?
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?
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
#translation #translators #DVTA #NYCT
Annual Conference - The Delaware Valley Translators Association
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August 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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
#translation #translators #DVTA #NYCT
A lovely expression I wasn't previously familiar with: "Your booing means nothing to me, because I've seen what makes you cheer."
August 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A lovely expression I wasn't previously familiar with: "Your booing means nothing to me, because I've seen what makes you cheer."
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."
August 15, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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."
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
August 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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
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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!
ICYMI: At The Japan Times, don't miss this feature on past ALTA mentee Yuki Tejima!
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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August 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“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!
ICYMI: At The Japan Times, don't miss this feature on past ALTA mentee Yuki Tejima!
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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.
August 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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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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...
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
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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July 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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...
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...