📚 10 fatti sull'Impero russo che sorprenderanno anche i più esperti 📚
Immergiamoci nell'era dei Romanov (1721-1917), un periodo di grandi vittorie, conquiste culturali e tradizioni inaspettate!
1/ Il primo giornale. Pietro I fondò Vedomosti, il primo giornale pubblico. Il primo numero fu pubblicato il 13 gennaio 1702.
2/ La tornitura di Pietro I. L'imperatore amava lavorare con le mani e sviluppò persino torni con il maestro artigiano Andrej Nartov.
3/ Gli impostori di Pietro III. Dopo la misteriosa morte dell'imperatore, circa 40 persone si spacciarono per lui! Il più famoso fu Emeljan Pugačëv.
C'è anche una serie di post sugli origini dei popoli con il punto sugli origini del "popolo fantasma", i slavi.
Ci sono popoli che appaiono "ad improvviso" e interi imperi che spariscono senza lasciare traccia. Questo è il caso anche dei popoli slavi che si credeva che fossero apparsi "ad improvviso" nel VI secolo. Le ricerche recenti, invece, hanno dimostrato che non era così. I risultati delle ricerche potete trovare negli ultimi post precedenti.
One of the questions I hear frequently is why we need human translators if we can use on-line translators. And, the nearby standing question: I can translate my text with the on-line dictionary - why I need books or lessons?
The answer is very easy. An online translator does not understand the sense of the text. It only translates the narrow quantity of words inserted in it's database. The human brain can't contain such quantity of the words but it can understand the sense of the phrase.
I normally use Word Reference and Яндекс online translators for my work. It's comfortable because I do not need to open books to look for possible translations of this or that word. Now, use one of them to translate the first phrase I found when I opened FB:
A simple Russian phrase without any "background" Улыбайтесь: это заставляет людей ломать голову что же у вас на уме
we can translate so: Smile! It makes persons rack their brains over your intentions.
Here is thee translation of one of my favorite on-line translators http://translate.reference.com/ And smile: it makes people crush the head that same you have in the back of his mind
Why is it so?
Let's take one of the words we needed to translate the phrase.
My life of translator from to Russian is much more calm in confront to summer now. I just said this job is not "direct": do you think, you translate a text or a speech, a conversation and everything finishes here? You put your salary in your wallet and go home to enjoy your free time, you hope.
No, your clients pretend you know literally everything and will do it for them. If you are translator means you are a guide, too. And you know all the most impossible facts about all the things. If you are a translator, you are a middleman. No, not "a" but "the" middleman. Nobody can even imagine, those are completely different jobs and -according to the current laws- you, translator, can't do it...
Oh yes, you are right, I just repeat it in every post.
Well, my job is different in the last period. I have to translate texts from English to Italian.
Everybody knows, I'm Russian. It's very interesting to look at the persons that observe me listening to someone and writing what he is saying than. All the people wait, I'll write the speech in Russian and than translate it in Italian. When they see me writing directly in Italian, they become astonished and than ask me in embarrassment:
-What language are you writing in?
-Italian.
-Why don't you write Russian???
-Why Ш have?
-You are Russian!
-Well, but I need this text in Italian.
-Yes, but you are Russian!
So, you understood: if I'm Russian, think all the persons, I have to translate everything in Russian first!
We do not think about it but it's impossible to imagine modern life without translations. People all over the world use the same products, technologies which manuals are translated in hundreds of languages. These translations have to be made by alive translators because no one even the best technology can understand the sense of the sentences. We watch the same movies, read the same news. Even the food we eat comes from different parts of the world. And it's just enough to understand the importance of the translators' job.
Here are some other examples. I wanted to list all of them because even the professional translators do not realize the importance of what they are doing all their life. Not for complications of the idea or something like this but for it's simplicity.
Now, think a moment:
did you never support a team or a sportsman from other country? How would you know more about it/ him if you could not read about?
Did you ever support an opinion of a person from other country? Nelson Mandela or Obama that be. How could you understand the situation in the place your loved ones or Facebook friends live in?
Do you know somebody who follows a foreign religion? Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity or what other you just remember...
Now, you will smile... Where comes your LOOK from? Your clothes? Your hairstyle? In the last period, I've seen many girls with this hairstyle like in this video and like it very much
But the role of translator is much more important: the right or wrong translation can influence the decisions of the governments, of the military leaders. That is why is so decisive when the translator knows the country She / He works in. It's well known fact that all we have different uses, mentality. And, when the translator can't amortize the differences of understanding, it can lead to the great, really great problems.
What could happen when the meditians of one country where the outbreak of a dangerous disease happens could not communicate with the researchers from other countries? Not from one but from many different countries? What would happen if they would give wrong quantities of the medicine?
If you want to begin this business and you read about the problems you can meet on your way, in this blog, too, you could think it's not an important job to have so many sacrifices.
First of all, every beginning has more or less the same problems. In any case you have to tread on somebodies pet corn. There is not place where somebody is waiting for you. You have to make much to take your bread in the life. And butter on your piece of bread is the awareness you are doing something very important.
Curiosities happen in every field of the life, and they are something that add light to everyday routine. That is why I add "Curiousities" category to all my blogs.
In 1995, a great new Russian/ Italian Italian/ Russian Dictionary was pibblished and was just available in the biggest bookshops. It was the book I needed for my job and I bought it as soon as I could. I took it with me when I married an Italian and moved in Italy.
One day, I had to translate a text where the word "partenopean" was used. The word is one of the synonyms
of "neapolitan".
A Greek legend about the Sirens and Odysseus tells that the body of the Siren Partenope was washed ashore in the place where the Greek colony was built later. A Partenope colony, precisely. The old colony was replaced with new settling, new town, Nea-Polis, some time later, but the memory of the Siren remained in the language till today. So, they can say Neapolitan or Partenopean and it means the same.
The author of the great dictionary I bought did not know this peculiarity and, probably, asked one of his Italian friends to explain it to him. That friend had a special sense of humour. I found thas explanation:
"Partenopean is a disparaging name for the citizens of Naples and region"
It's very probably that this difinition continue in the later dictionaries of that author.
