What does the phrase, "groBes malheur!", as used in this photo, mean and what language it is? [more inside]
posted on Jul 15, 2008 - 13 answers

I've been sought out by a manufacturer of cement processing equipment to translate their catalog from Mandarin to English. They found me through another client in an unrelated industry. It's a big sexy gig, the paycheck is a dream, the work is at least a 6-month job, and they don't care that I'm not a specialist - they want someone who'll do the homework and get it right. And that's what I specialize in and my favorite type of translation work, the stuff with lots of details. But where, exactly, do you learn about cement processing and testing equipment? [more inside]
posted on Jul 13, 2008 - 16 answers

LanguageFilter : What is the most common word for "cars" in Spanish and in Portugese? Is it coches or carros? What is the difference between the two words and what are their etymologies?
posted on Jun 19, 2008 - 23 answers

I need help translating something into French! I need to find out if someone received a fax with payment information and whether we were charged for our purchases. [more inside]
posted on Jun 12, 2008 - 7 answers

My girlfriend's parents have been told that they may develop 森林脑炎 -- a Chinese disease which seems to be similar to Lyme disease. Can you help me find out what this is called in English, so I can find out how serious a condition this is? [more inside]
posted on Jun 11, 2008 - 10 answers

How much cost to translate a novel (italian to english), and who can I ask? I mean a very good translation, the one you can find in bookstores. [more inside]
posted on Jun 6, 2008 - 4 answers

?Russian? translation of this document required
posted on Jun 5, 2008 - 8 answers

I cannot find a free translation of this small Japanese document, found in some inherited articles of my mother's. I hope someone can help me.
posted on May 29, 2008 - 12 answers

What are some great national literatures without a substantial presence in English translation? Who/what are their key authors/works? [more inside]
posted on May 28, 2008 - 6 answers

I'm translating a script into English, and the dreaded "Hollywood format" in particular. Doing this in Word is a freakin' impossible task with all the goofy formatting and margins, so is there any particular freeware screenwriting software or preprogrammed Word styles I should be aware of? Would sure as cooter save me some hours of my life...
posted on May 27, 2008 - 11 answers

Can you help me translate a certain passage of 7 lines from Homer's Iliad into latin? Book 22, starting around line 70. [more inside]
posted on May 21, 2008 - 10 answers

Anybody read Polish? Or know about Stan Nonin? [more inside]
posted on May 15, 2008 - 5 answers

Any recommended online language translation services? (for a foreign birth certificate). [more inside]
posted on May 8, 2008 - 2 answers

Can someone provide an Ancient Greek translation for "love of style?" [more inside]
posted on May 7, 2008 - 6 answers

Short and sweet: "Please don't water these plants. (it's killing them)" in Spanish. [more inside]
posted on May 6, 2008 - 17 answers

I saw this symbol or statement on a car recently. Can anyone help translate or tell me what it means?
posted on May 2, 2008 - 5 answers

Can anyone translate the Asian characters (I think they are Japanese) on this image?
posted on Apr 30, 2008 - 3 answers

When I was younger I was told that Kraftwerk's Man-Machine/Mensch-Maschine album had a French-language version (L'homme-machine, presumably) that was never released. Does anyone know whether this is true or not? [more inside]
posted on Apr 19, 2008 - 4 answers

I have one scanned JPG image of one typewritten page of modern German (or possibly modern Swiss-German). What's the best company, service, or person to use to get it translated into English quickly? [more inside]
posted on Apr 18, 2008 - 8 answers

Is there a Definitive English translation of Don Quixote? [more inside]
posted on Apr 14, 2008 - 12 answers

Francofilter (part 2) (part 1): What's my best option for a science/technical French-English/English-French dictionary? [more inside]
posted on Apr 12, 2008 - 5 answers

English to Gaelic translation? Can someone translate the following English sentence into Gaelic? [more inside]
posted on Apr 7, 2008 - 15 answers

Where can I get the best subtitles for My Neighbour Totoro? [more inside]
posted on Apr 4, 2008 - 16 answers

Emergency Medieval Latin translation? Yes, you read that correctly. [more inside]
posted on Apr 1, 2008 - 5 answers

How do you say "Damn kids, get off my lawn!" in Latin? [more inside]
posted on Mar 25, 2008 - 15 answers

What is the best collection of Zbigniew Herbert's poetry translated into English? [more inside]
posted on Mar 23, 2008 - 2 answers

MusicFilter: In the long version of the Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love" (available on the 12") there is a female voice saying something in what I believe is Japanese. Can anyone translate that for me? Thanks. [more inside]
posted on Mar 20, 2008 - 27 answers

Where can I read Michel Houellebecq's notorious September 2001 Lire interview in English? [more inside]
posted on Mar 17, 2008 - 2 answers

If the Incredible Hulk were French, how would he say his famous "Hulk Smash!"?? [more inside]
posted on Mar 11, 2008 - 23 answers

Portuguese Song translation! "Aganjú" Google translate is failing me, I suppose I could try Babelfish, but I'd much rather have a native speaker translate it, as translation (particularly with respect to music and poetry) is an art, rather than a cut-and-dried process. [more inside]
posted on Mar 10, 2008 - 8 answers

How much would it cost to translate a large, highly technical computer book into Farsi (Persian)? What method would be best to accomplish this? [more inside]
posted on Mar 8, 2008 - 7 answers

Can anyone tell me what works of Dazai Osamu's are translated in (1) Phyllis I. Lyons's "The Saga of Dazai Osamu: A Critical Study with Translations"; and (2) James O'Brien's "Dazai Osamu: Selected Stories and Sketches"? [more inside]
posted on Mar 8, 2008 - 4 answers

I'm looking for translations of a particular sense of the English word "experience." [more inside]
posted on Mar 7, 2008 - 11 answers

How do you say " I got hit (in the head) by....(something)" I have to do an oral presentation in spanish but Im not sure how to say I was....i got hit? Im telling a story of when i got hit in the head with a swing...i have to use imperfect and preterite tense....any ideas
posted on Mar 1, 2008 - 10 answers

Scientific History Filter / Native German Speaker Filter. What did Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard's 1985 exclamation, "Das war ja toll!" mean? [more inside]
posted on Feb 25, 2008 - 11 answers

I need to prepare some labels with seven different languages printed in their own written language. [more inside]
posted on Feb 24, 2008 - 9 answers

I'd like to hear other people's experience in doing online translation work. [more inside]
posted on Feb 16, 2008 - 4 answers

Khmer/Cambodian and Lao/Laotian food translations? [more inside]
posted on Feb 15, 2008 - 4 answers

I'd like to find some examples of bands rerecording their own songs with foreign language versions of the lyrics, please. [more inside]
posted on Feb 15, 2008 - 72 answers

I bought myself an instant "yakisoba". Just add hot water. Right? [more inside]
posted on Feb 12, 2008 - 8 answers

Any expert translators in the house? What is the best way to go about translating works of published fiction from Bulgarian into English? Any resources or answers regarding the practical elements of translation in general, or info for obtaining the legal rights to have any translated works published...? More fun inside! [more inside]
posted on Feb 12, 2008 - 7 answers

What does "acueta" mean? I'm guessing that's Spanish, but Google Translate's not helping. It might not be a word at all, but that's why I'm asking. [more inside]
posted on Feb 8, 2008 - 9 answers

Dirty Russian translation please. I have a Russian co-worker who showed me a russian word (with english spelling) but won't tell me what it means. Words can be found inside. Can you translate? [more inside]
posted on Feb 6, 2008 - 6 answers

What does the German word Erbpräfektor mean? I have some genealogical data in German. I don't speak German. The data mentions a man whose occupation was Erbpräfektor. What does that mean? If context helps, he lived in Germany in the 19th Century. My dead tree German-English dictionary fails me, as does dict.cc and Babel Fish.
posted on Feb 2, 2008 - 15 answers

Esperantists: I want to send a friend a valentine in Esperanto. What should it say? Also, what design should I draw on the card? [more inside]
posted on Jan 30, 2008 - 4 answers

Can anyone help me translate some Kant into English? I don't want to produce an English translation like the kind available on the net, rather a more literal translation, i.e. one that sticks closely to the text. [more inside]
posted on Jan 29, 2008 - 10 answers

I am interested in the mimetic and narrative capacities of artefacts, how cultural remnants transmit information through time and how meaning is translated once an artefact is re-appropriated or examined from a new perspective. I have several avenues of study at the moment (a list in extended explanation), but would like some more ideas. Areas of critical theory, linguistics, evolutionary psychology and poetics are all relevant. [more inside]
posted on Jan 27, 2008 - 12 answers

Rumi poems online -- with both the original text and the English translation -- that would tell me how to speak his original texts? I would need either English transliterations (spelling in western alphabet of his original texts, with some way to know which syllable to accent) or an audio file of someone speaking them. Does this exist?
posted on Jan 18, 2008 - 2 answers

During a stupid Reply-To All e-mail storm at my huge international corporation, someone responded with this (which I assume is profane): [more inside]
posted on Jan 15, 2008 - 5 answers

"He's a dirty jade!" "Go ahead and sleep with him you dirty jade!" This insult was used repeatedly in the Zola book I was reading last night. When I searched for it this morning, Google returned results for other uses in at least three other Zola novels. What does it refer to? (As the more inside explains, I think it's actually an English-language insult, as the original contains something else.) [more inside]
posted on Jan 15, 2008 - 17 answers