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Journal

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Unsentimental Journey

August 07, 2017Mateusz Matysiak

The view is blurred and grainy. Shadowy time before dawn. The road is empty up to the horizon. The bus has arrived. It’s a long way to Pingyao.

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categories Translation, Travel, Writing, Photography, Biography

On Design

July 09, 2016Mateusz Matysiak

Almost all rules of good design can be applied to text translation, and this is even more important in reference to apps, programs, and websites as their interfaces all need to be properly designed (and localized) to be efficiently and willingly used by users.

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categories Translation, Transcreation, Design

Beyond Language

May 16, 2014Mateusz Matysiak

It is a common opinion that translations made by native speakers of a given language read more naturally, or, simply, are better than texts translated by non-mother tongue users. Empirical evidence suggests quite the contrary.

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categories Translation

Catlin

April 10, 2014Mateusz Matysiak

I find literary translation very rewarding. Yet translating classic writings of the past centuries is like dodging amongst the archaic words and old grammars of a meandring language with deadly inversions and fatal inflections: the outcome is a matter of linguistic life or death.

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categories Translation, Travel, Biography

Bicycle

March 23, 2014Mateusz Matysiak

I've always been fascinated by things, especially old things with stories imprinted on their faces. I like to imagine the daily routines they'd been involved into. How they had been used, how they had affected people's lives.

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categories Personal, Travel, Narrative