Gaston Murdock

30/10/2020

15/05/2020

Gaston Murdock is now offering free translation services to artists in need.

We all know COVID-19 is hitting the performing arts particularly hard. Venues are closed and artists are out of work. But some arts workers are using this time to revamp their websites or put content online.

The virtual world may not have borders but language barriers can limit your reach. Over four million Canadians don’t speak English and millions more don’t speak French. Bridging the linguistic divide has never been more important. Gaston Murdock is here to help with free translation and editing services for Canadian artists in need.

There are new audiences out there. We want to help you find them. Please visit our website for more information.

Gaston Murdock is a boutique translation firm in Winnipeg, Manitoba. We provide French translation services to businesses and organizations throughout Canada. Contact us today!

01/05/2020

duel today at noon EDT presented by the
! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/fold-2020-translation-duelduel-de-traduction-tickets-101828467688

The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) is Canada's first festival for diverse authors & stories.

18/04/2020

Calling all Francophiles and book lovers!

Appel à tous les francophiles et les bibliomanes!

French-to-English Language Translators Wayne Grady and Rhonda Mullins discuss their translations of an original work by Francophone author Edem Awumey in the ultimate battle of words. Audience members will receive a copy of the original work and the translations to follow along in the ultimate duel....

17/04/2020

Une bonne nouvelle pour la communauté canadienne.

Some good news for the community in Canada.

TORONTO - Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault unveiled early plans on Friday to give $500 million to Canada's arts, sports and cultural sectors as the...

16/04/2020

A great session this morning on self-revision with Joachim Lépine. Thanks to l' Ordre des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes agréés du Québec for organizing it. Looking forward to the second half next week! After a month in isolation, it was particularly nice to see all the participants' faces on the screen. :-) One great takeaway: spend the time to produce a good first draft. More effective than rushing through your first pass at a text and expecting to make it brilliant later on. Also? "Doublets" are our friends. Over and out!

12/04/2020

Une première tentative de décorer des œufs à la mode ukrainienne, les fameux « »! Leur nom dérive de «pysaty» (écrire) car il faut tracer les ornements à la cire d'abeille. Un message d'espoir et de renouveau qui se passe de . Joyeuses !

A first-ever attempt at Ukrainian Easter eggs, aka pysanky! From "pysaty," meaning "to write," the process uses beeswax to inscribe patterns on the egg... messages of hope and renewal that require no translation. Happy Easter!

06/03/2020

Reminder: the Language Portal of Canada offers some great resources for language professionals, in both official languages!

Language Portal of Canada's Home page

24/02/2020

Can we draw a link between the intricate and often modest work of writers and translators, and the bold and costly actions of activists? Is the work of literature connected to the risks some people undertake to save others? I believe so—because acts of language can themselves be acts of courage, j...

05/10/2016

The Word of the Year has been announced.

30/09/2016

Happy International Translation Day!

To celebrate International Translation Day, we asked translators from across the globe to tell us their favourite expressions. Here are 11 of the most surprising.

27/07/2016

Great oratory magnifies the lessons of great writing. Written for the ear, memorable speeches tend to use certain rhetorical devices — such as parallelism or emphatic word order — in greater measur…

19/07/2016

« […] toute ma vie est là : Pendant que je restais en bas, dans l’ombre noire, D’autres montaient cueillir le baiser de la gloire! C’est justice, et j’approuve au seuil de mon tombeau : Molière a du génie et Christian était beau! » Edmond RostandCyrano de Bergerac, acte 5, scène 6

04/07/2016

Our English teachers told us to avoid the word “very” because it’s weak and vague. They were right, and many times, we use “very” as a modifier for a word that could easily be replaced with a stronger, more accurate word. This infographic tells you what to use instead.

29/06/2016

Quebec's Mélanie Léonard 'couldn't be happier' to helm Sudbury Symphony

20/01/2016

Le Bureau de la traduction du gouvernement fédéral traverse des temps difficiles.

17/11/2015

Get fluent in a language, whatever that may mean: http://goo.gl/1blSnb "But he's not fluent" come the cries from the comments section. But what does "fluent"...

27/10/2015

A new movement strives for simplicity.

30/09/2015

A fun read for International Translation Day.

Robert Walser’s scrupulous art of translation.Robert WalserToday is International Translation Day, an occasion of particular piety among the few who observe it. Translation, that glorious service to culture and human understanding!There are failures, too, though. Some are of the sort that plague mos…

29/09/2015

A new translation effort aims to make all of Shakespeare’s plays comprehensible to today’s audiences

06/09/2015

University students will be pleased to learn that new research suggests many academic papers are now written in such complicated prose that hardly anyone can understand them.

06/09/2015

With enrolment in English-language public schools declining, the city’s French boards are seizing a rare opportunity to build and expand. What they didn’t expect was the groundswell of demand from Toronto’s growing community of francophone families

14/08/2015

I very much enjoyed attending Translate in Chantilly, which ran August 2-5 in Chantilly, France. Rubbed shoulders with some of Europe's and North America's premiere translators and attended many stimulating and enriching sessions. All against the backdrop of the famed Chateau de Chantilly.

Also squeezed in a tour of Paris, bien sûr!

www.translateinchantilly.com

03/02/2015

05/01/2015

Ben Davis is dropping 30 writing clichés, including "haunting," "immersive," and "on acid," from his vocabulary for the new year. Here's why.

10/12/2014

La production d’une bonne traduction exige non seulement du traducteur qu’il évite de faire des fautes, mais également qu’il respecte les idiomatismes de la langue et exprime les choses de la façon la plus naturelle ou la plus courante.

24/05/2014

"The vocabulary and accent in the former colony of New France has drifted from la langue maternelle over the last half-millennium, to the point where the France-French can no longer understand it."

EntertainmentMoviesFrench need subtitles for Quebec film at Cannes Film FestivalXavier Dolan’s French-language film Mommy needed both French and English subtitles because the actors speak in such thick accents.Photo: Shayne Laverdiëre, courtesy of SevillePostmedia NewsPublished: May 23, 2014, 12:29…