Samuel Langhorne Clemens, far better known by his pen name, Mark Twain, is one of the great authors of American history; to be sure, one of the most brilliant authors ever to write in the English language. He is best known for the iconic novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry […]
As has been mentioned before, when we speak of back-translation, we’re referring to translating a text (that’s already been translated) back to its original language. This is done without consulting the original text, as a way of ensuring the quality of the translation. Just as we may calculate the inverse operation to confirm the product […]
A few weeks ago, I made a post about back translations, but this time I wanted to share a famous example of a back translation gone wrong. In 1865, Mark Twain published a short story entitled “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, which, shortly thereafter was translated into French. Appalled by the French translation […]