February 16, 2006

CARNIVAL OF BLOG TRANSLATION.

Liz at ALTAlk Blog has a brilliant idea:

Announcing the first Carnival of Blog Translation! Tuesday, Feb. 28th, 2006!

On the day of the Carnival, a participant translates one post by another blogger, and posts it on her own blog with a link to the original. She would need to email me, or post in the comments right here, and I'll compile one big post on the day of the Carnival with links to all the participants.

You can translate any blog entry that was posted in the month of February 2006. It can be your own blog entry, if you like.

See her post for requirements and suggestions, and I hope lots of polyglots will participate.

Liz also wants to publicize the call for translations of "Gonāh" [گناه 'sin'] by Forough Farrokhzad for a future issue of Composite; if you know Farsi/Persian, give it a try (the text is in the "call" link).

Posted by languagehat at February 16, 2006 04:59 PM
Comments

I know nothing about this, but I want to commend you for referring to Farsi as "Persian". All the Iranian-Americans I know refer to the language as "Persian". Of course, they refer to themselves as "Persian" too.

Posted by: Cryptic Ned at February 17, 2006 05:19 PM

I actually posted on that very subject back in 2003... hey, and I see you left the first comment back then too! Others seem to disagree with you about expat use.

Posted by: language hat at February 18, 2006 07:20 AM

I might have to try my hand at shoehorning a post into Bokmål (one of my own; I wouldn't want to butcher anyone else's).

Posted by: Songdog at February 21, 2006 11:04 AM

Oh, I completely forgot about that. I can't believe it's been three years.

Posted by: Cryptic Ned at February 22, 2006 12:25 AM

I'm sure that was my mistake to say "Farsi" -- not Sholeh's. Thanks for the correction!

Posted by: Liz Henry at February 22, 2006 02:34 PM

Not a mistake at all -- most people refer to it as Farsi these days. But there's a contingent of Iranians that objects to the term.

Posted by: language hat at February 22, 2006 05:10 PM

Ahem. Hat, could you check your mail?
Clock is ticking, you know.

Posted by: Tatyana at February 23, 2006 03:08 PM