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Translator is the one who
achieves
the prowess of being
faithful to
the author and to the
reader
at the same time. – tj*¬
My Translation of Whisky Classified
Book Description:
Ten years ago, WHISKY CLASSIFIED revolutionised our appreciation of single malt whisky. David Wishart cut through the confusing jargon often used to describe single malts and replaced it with an objective and easily applied guide to taste using a new flavour profile. Twelve dimensions to the aroma and taste of a single malt whisky were identified: body, sweetness, smoky, medicinal, tobacco, honey, spicy, winey, nutty, malty, fruity, floral. Single malt whisky is the fastest expanding sector of the booming whisky market. In this revised and updated anniversary edition, Dr Wishart has included all the new UK and Irish producers of single malt whisky that have emerged in the last 10 years. The author has also updated the taste profiles for each selected malt and reviewed previous entries to ensure that this book remains the definitive guide to tasting malt whisky. Each entry includes a short description of the distillery, information for visitors, the author's own tasting notes and his flavour profiles according to this innovative classification. The history of whisky-making and production methods are clearly explained, and Dr Wishart also reveals how to organise a whisky tasting. WHISKY CLASSIFIED is for all whisky drinkers, from the novice to the connoisseur.
Extracted from Harper Collins
Whisky Classified
David Whishart
Translation to Portuguese: Tina Jeronymo
Happy Translator's Day!
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The International Translators’
Day is celebrated on September 30th on the feast of St. Jerome
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My translation of Weapon - A Visual History of Arms and Armour
This
was one of the most interesting books I’ve translated to Portuguese. Weapon - A Visual History
of Arms and
Armour (by Richard Holmes) represented a big challenge to me as
a translator because it’s a complete guide of weapons through ages and from all
parts of the globe. It’s a journey through history, and contains all the
technical details and explanations about weapons mechanisms, and I had to
research a lot during translation. The book also covers war tactics, talks
about warriors and soldiers from all times, and also all kinds of armours. It
was indeed a privilege to translate it, and I’ve learned a lot during the whole
process.
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Synopsis:
A
slice of history - the definitive exploration of weapons through the ages, now
with a fresh new jacket. An epic 4,000-year illustrated story of weaponry. From
stone axes to heavy machine-guns, swords to sniper rifles, discover the
innovative design, range, lethal function and brutal history of arms and
armour, and meet the warriors who wielded them. Includes all the important arms
from the ages, covering edged weapons, clubs, projectiles and firearms from
ancient Egyptian axes, through bows and spears of traditional societies in
Africa, Oceania and the Americas, to the machine-guns and missiles of modern
infantry forces. Key weapons from every era are presented in sharp detail and
the mechanisms that operate them are displayed and explained. Top fighting
forces, from the Greek hoplite to the Navy Seal are profiled, and the weapons
they have wielded and the tactics and fighting methods they've used are
revealed.
(Synopsis - from: http://books.google.com.br/books/about/Weapon.html)
- Weapon
- A Visual History of
Arms and Armour - Richard Holmes
Translation to Portuguese: Tina Jeronymo
- Armas - Uma História
Visual de Armas e Armaduras
Editora: Lafonte
September – Translator’s Month
The
translator not only likes it, but he/she needs to learn more and more about cultures and
peoples from all over the world, ancient and new.
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Translator's Month
The International Translators’ Day is celebrated on September 30th on the feast of St. Jerome, the Bible translator who is considered as the patron saint of translators because he translated what was recognized as the official version of the Bible into Latin, the Vulgate.
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My Translation of Slash’s Autobiography
Comments about Slash’s Book and My Translation
to Portuguese
The autobiography written by Slash, Saul Hudson, born in England
Of course, as most fans, I've never really
known Slash, nor Saul Hudson, as a person. I only know the things I've read
about him, and I love his irresistible rock music and riffs and those
incredible songs (Though I was lucky to meet him in a show, as in the picture
below.) But it was only after I translated Slash’s book that I came to admire
him as a person as well. As I use to say, to translate a book, you have to
enter a bit into the author’s mind, to understand his/her ideas to be able to
transmit them in the most precise way, while you read the book hundreds of
times in the process. But always, as a translator, you have to transmit all
this in a detached way, and so, this translation of the book to Portuguese is
impartial as it must be.
As a reader, though, I think Slash revealed himself a generous, gentle, sensible, determined person. Slash talks about his childhood, his friendships, the mischievousness of the youth, of school times, and his fascination for snakes and exotic animals in general. It’s amazing the candidness Slash uses to give us his account, so perfectly transmitted by Anthony Bozza’s style as he wrote the book. As Slash talks with all his heart, we’ve got the impression, throughout the book, that we're in a kind of chat with our idol as readers. (If you want to know it all, his book is really great to read.)
Another admirable aspect is Slash’s innate talent for music and to play guitar. Without many resources, he learned to play practically by himself, starting using his grandmother’s famous flamenco guitar and reading dozens and dozens of sheet music and guitar tabs, while playing together with his favorite rock bands’ albums. His efforts ended up enabling him to achieve great success in his musical projects. (I went to his shows inSão Paulo
Naturally, in his book, Slash tells us about his trajectory in Guns N’ Roses, the way the band started, how he met the other members, about ups and downs, the huge success, what he felt becoming famous, the tours, the opening shows to his own idols, like Aerosmith and Mötley Crüe. LikeRome
As a reader, though, I think Slash revealed himself a generous, gentle, sensible, determined person. Slash talks about his childhood, his friendships, the mischievousness of the youth, of school times, and his fascination for snakes and exotic animals in general. It’s amazing the candidness Slash uses to give us his account, so perfectly transmitted by Anthony Bozza’s style as he wrote the book. As Slash talks with all his heart, we’ve got the impression, throughout the book, that we're in a kind of chat with our idol as readers. (If you want to know it all, his book is really great to read.)
Another admirable aspect is Slash’s innate talent for music and to play guitar. Without many resources, he learned to play practically by himself, starting using his grandmother’s famous flamenco guitar and reading dozens and dozens of sheet music and guitar tabs, while playing together with his favorite rock bands’ albums. His efforts ended up enabling him to achieve great success in his musical projects. (I went to his shows in
Naturally, in his book, Slash tells us about his trajectory in Guns N’ Roses, the way the band started, how he met the other members, about ups and downs, the huge success, what he felt becoming famous, the tours, the opening shows to his own idols, like Aerosmith and Mötley Crüe. Like
And my translation, naturally, was totally
impartial as translations must be, transmitting all the contents as they are in
the original book, though I’m also giving my own opinions as a reader in this
article. The translation itself to Portuguese was long and hard with lots of
slangs, technical details about music, playing and recording, references to
countless people, places, etc. etc., and it demanded lots of researching. But
it was very pleasurable indeed. It’s my favorite among all the translations
I’ve done. Because when one translates a book, the result is much better when
he/she also enjoys it as a reader first. And I’ve been lucky enough to always translate
things I enjoy.
In his autobiography, Slash tells us how he has gotten his nickname, and also the top hat that would become his trademark when he had to improvise some garments for shows. There we find drama, friendship, nostalgia, a lot about Rock, a bit of something like the “Twilight Zone”, and there’s a lot of sense of humor in the book too, what’s very charming. We can laugh with some of Slash’s mishaps, as he talks about them, including the glam period of the band, or when he had to dress like a woman to go inside a nightclub.
One of my favorite of those parts is when
he jumped straight from the stage during a show and the audience parted like
the Red Sea , and he fell hard on the floor _ a
kind of miscalculation. Then, as if nothing had happened, he cleaned the dust,
went back to the stage and kept on playing. I think that’s a good metaphor for
the way he gathered up the pieces of his old life and turned it into a greater
success.
Slash With Anthony
Bozza
Translation to
Portuguese: Tina Jeronymo
Ediouro
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Show - Nov. 6th, 2012
São
Paulo - SPEspaço das Américas |
To the Translator
This is the most beautiful homage I’ve seen an author paying to the translator.
"When man grew ambitious, God destroyed the
Tower of Babel, and everyone began to speak
different tongues. However, in His infinite grace,
he also created people to rebuild those bridges,
to enable dialogue and the diffusion of human
thought. This person, whose name we rarely
take the trouble to notice when we open a
foreign book, is the translator.”
_ Paulo Coelho,
“The Other Side of the Tower of Babel”
Recent Translations
Below, some of my most recent
translations. I’ll comment here on the blog about each one of them individually
with time, among the other posts about general subjects and the translation
area.
The books I translate are not mine, they belong to the authors, of course. But I translate them as if they were mine, with all my heart and soul. When you translate, you have to enter in the author’s mind, to know what he/she’s thinking, understand his/her feelings so that the book can be perfect. I feel this strong empathy with the author and make all the efforts for his/her book’s contents to be in Portuguese exactly the way they are in the original form in English. Translating is fascinating. Besides the knowledge about languages, I have to research a lot and I end up reading and learning many interesting things. That’s why I’m so proud when I see the result. The book is not mine, but I’ve treated it as if it was my own treasure all the way.
- The Book of Why - O
Livro do Porquê - Nicholas
Montemarano - LeYa
- Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor - Armas - História Visual de Armas e Armaduras - Lafonte
- The World Atlas of
Whisky - O Atlas Mundial do
Whisky - O Atlas Mundial
do Whisky - Dave Broom - Larousse
- Being Wrong - Por
que Erramos? - Kathryn Schulz - Larousse
- Evidence of the
Afterlife - Evidências da Vida Após a Morte - Jeffrey Long
- Larousse
- It’s Your Time - A
Hora é Agora - Joel Osteen, Larousse
- Think Smart - Mente
Saudável, Mente Brilhante - Richard Restak -
Riverhead Books - Larousse
- Whisky Classified
- Whisky Classificado - David Wishart - Pavilion Books
- Larousse
- The Elephant and the Flea - O Elefante e a Pulga -
Charles Handy - Arrow - Almedina do Brasil
- Pauline Bonaparte, Venus of Empire - Paulina
Bonaparte, a Princesa do Prazer - Flora Fraser - Borzoi Book, Knopf -
Ediouro
- My Life as a Traitor - Minha Vida Como Traidora -
Zarah Ghahramani e Rober Hillman, Bloomsbury Publishing -
Ediouro
- How the Wise Decide - Como os Sábios Decidem - Bryn
Zeckhauser e Aaron Sandoski - Crown Business - Ediouro
- My Best Friend’s Girl
- A Filha da Minha Melhor Amiga - Dorothy Koomson, Sphere
(Warner), ARX
- Autobiography - Slash - Autobiografia - Anthony Bozza – HarperCollins - Edirouro
- 81 Challenges Smart Managers
Face – Desafios Gerenciais, Tim Connor - Sourcebooks - Futura
- Do it Tomorrow - Deixe para Amanhã - Mark Forster -
Hodder & Stoughton - Futura
- Was Your Boss Raised
by Wolves? - Seu Chefe Foi Criado por Lobos? -
Gerald M. Groe - Career
Press - Futura
- Fat Free and Fatal - Insaciável
- G.A McKevett - Kensington Books - ARX
- Mirage - Miragem
- Soheir Khashoggi - Forge-Tom Doherty - ARX
- A Dangerous Dress
- Um Vestido Perigoso - Julia Holden – NewAmerican - ARX
- Prince of Lost Places - O Príncipe dos Lugares Perdidos - Kathy
Hepinstall - Putnam - Best Seller
Some of the translations of Tina Jeronymo to Portuguese.
Algumas das traduções de Tina Jeronymo para o português.
Human and Automated Translation
Nothing substitutes the flesh and blood
translator and interpreter. The professional translator doesn’t use translation
machines to perform his work for him. He/she can, however, use the available
translation devices to understand a bit the languages he/she doesn’t know and
increase his/her knowledge about other peoples and cultures as well, in cases
he/she can’t count on foreign colleagues to help him/her. I believe technology
serves to help man, never to substitute him. It’s always man’s intelligence
that’s behind the machines.
The “Phraselator” technology mentioned
here, from the glorious “Star Trek”, is actually being used nowadays, especially
in the military area. Those who are smart enough to use it when it’s strictly
necessary, however, are also smart to know they’re carrying a kind of electronic
phrase dictionary, not a versatile human translator and interpreter.
A
translator uses a bilingual dictionary (and even consults reliable translation
sites) as a mere tool, the same way a writer uses his native language
dictionary to elucidate doubts. But there’s a big difference between the human
and the automated translation and their respective usages.
Only the human translation
transmits the precise sense of a text in a way that’s completely understandable
to the reader. The automated translation, in its turn, has a fantastic comprehensiveness
of languages and it’s a useful and valid tool to several kinds of professional
in many situations. When there can’t be an interpreter available, the automated
translation facilitates the communication between several peoples during trips
around the world and the cultural interchange. (I myself, for instance, here on
the blog, as I mention on the presentation, have included the Google translator
because _ though I never use it professionally as a translator, since
translations are too literal and usually don’t “fit” _ I think it’s a very
useful tool for any language reader to understand at least the contents of a
foreign text).
Basically, it would be
something more or less like this: “Just when the access to a “Personal Human
Translator” is not possible for some reason, take your “Phraselator” with you.
Translation is not a mechanic
act. It’s not the transcription of word for word of a text literally. It’s a
kind of craftsmanship, even an art. As an example, when we translate a word
from English to Portuguese, such as “water”, we have one meaning, but if we add
another word, such as in “water
clock”, “water closet”, “water mill”, “waterfall”, “waterfront”, the meaning changes, naturally, and the
translator has to know that in order not to translate those words separately
and getting wrong meanings. If you take a word in Portuguese such as “água”
(water), and add other words such as in “água-viva” (jelly-fish), “água
sanitária” (chlorine bleach), água-forte (etching) etc., you have other
meanings. In phrases, and, especially in paragraphs and longer texts, the
meaning one wants to give to words and to the general context becomes more
complex, and so it would be impossible to merely replace words. That is,
translation can’t be done word for word, literally. It’s a combination of ideas,
a composition elaborated with the knowledge of the origin and target languages
and of several cultural aspects, besides other factors.
The same way an artisan creates a piece
with all his/her care, the translator composes a translation by attaining the
feat of being faithful to the author and, at the same time, being faithful to
the reader.
My humble tribute to
the brilliant “Star Trek” which I was be able to
watch in Brazil
to the talent and dedication of
several professionals,
including the translators.
Translators
Translators
are paths that lead from one
place to
another without letting the reader
get lost in
the middle of the journey.
Happy World Book Day!
On April 23rd, World Book Day, through the
Translating with TJ Blog, where I write _ one thing I’ve been improving also
through reading, among other things _ I congratulate this priceless companion,
the book. The time we can dedicate to read a book is totally enjoyable. We
can’t forget, though, that millions of people in the world don’t have access
even to printed books much less to ebooks. We can never consider libraries or
used books stores outdated. We have to divulge projects and initiatives such as
itinerant libraries, book sales on bookstores and the books donation campaigns,
also donating books when we can. Happy World Book Day!
Books are
some of our best friends and
companions
for a lifetime. They are
always there for us, no matter what. tj*¬
Blog's Presentation
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Hello, I created this blog
on 03/30/2014, as a record of my work as a translator and also to post about
general subjects on it. The “Translating with TJ Blog” is destined to visitors
who want to entertain themselves with its contents and extract something that
might be useful in professional and personal terms.
I’m
going to comment here about the books I’ve been translating through the years;
I’ll post translation and version tips and texts about the area and other
subjects as well, such as peoples and cultures in general, curious things,
nature, sense of humor, etc.
We all have to translate things here and there,
whether is something for a school term paper, homework, an email or work
report, that kids’ toy instructions manual, some lyrics… So, the tips I’ll post
here are destined to everyone. As a professional translator, I work with
English and Portuguese and, for this reason, these are the languages I mention
here, but the comprehensive translation method applies to any idiom.
I’m
a translator graduated from the Brazilian Anhembi-Morumbi University, and I've been working
for more than 20 years in the area, specially with Literary translation,
translating more than 190 books among novels, business books, biographies,
self-help, guides, and working as a freelancer for renowned publishers. I’ve
enjoyed the books I’ve translated not only as a translator, but also as a
reader. They’re all very interesting books, and I recommend them (according to
each reader’s literary preferences). When publishers select books for
translation, there’s a criteria that takes the original books quality into
consideration.
On this version of the blog
in English, I recommend these books in the original form in English, because I’ve
translated them to Portuguese. (And recommend the translations to those who
know this idiom too.) Anyway, the comments about the translations themselves
apply to any language. I
don’t earn with book selling. I’m just paid by the publisher once for the
translation itself. This is a free, non-profit blog, and its objective is just
to share a bit of that work, among other subjects.
I’ve got other blogs (in
English/Portuguese) about several themes, including writing and reading, and
where I write varied texts, besides a bilingual facebook page, called
Escrita_Writing, and another similar one in Twitter. If you wish to know them
all, after your visit here, their names and links are on the left side of the
blog layout. This blog also has a version in Portuguese, called “Traduzindo com
TJ”. The link is on the left with the other ones.
I added the Google
translator here because, even thought I don’t use it professionally as a
translator, since translations are too literal and usually they don’t “fit”, I
think it’s a very useful resource for any language reader to understand at
least the contents of a foreign text.
Be welcomed! I hope this is
a blog as enjoyable to visit as I think it is to post on it. I reiterate here a
phrase that I put in all my blogs because it’s truthful.
Wherever you are, feel at
home here! tj*¬
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