Tag: World War I

Depictions of The Great War: Film and Graphic Novel

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Madame Livingstone

Since translating a French military citation for a friend, I’ve been on a bit of a World War I jag. Both of my grandfathers served in the American military during the Great War. Yet, luckily for me, neither served as soldiers. One worked in a Washington bureau; the other drove…

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What’s in a Paragraph? Why Humans Outdo Auto-Translators

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Commendation Translation Focus

This week I spent time translating a document for a friend whose grandfather fought in World War I. The document, issued by the French government, recognizes members of a United States Marine Regiment that helped defeat the Germans near the end of the war. There’s only one paragraph to translate.…

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