{"id":10548,"date":"2018-03-07T20:09:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T01:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10548"},"modified":"2018-03-07T20:09:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T01:09:24","slug":"the-norwegian-word-for-translator-is-oversetter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10548","title":{"rendered":"The Norwegian word for ‘translator’ is ‘oversetter’"},"content":{"rendered":"

From time to time on this blog,<\/strong> thanks to Phil\u2019s patience and longsuffering, I review movies and TV shows. Sometimes they\u2019re foreign productions, often Scandinavian ones. One of my most frequent complaints about foreign films is the poor quality of the English translations.<\/p>\n

It appears I\u2019ll now be in a position to do something about that problem.<\/p>\n

Briefly stated, I responded a couple days ago to an inquiry in a Facebook group, asking for people with Norwegian translation skills and writing abilities. I figured I might as well take a shot, and today I have an agreement to work as a freelancer with Meteoritt<\/a> (Meteorite), an Oslo-based company that does translation, closed captions, and subtitles for film and television productions.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve got me working on a very interesting project right now \u2013 but I can\u2019t tell you what it is. There\u2019s a non-disclosure agreement, for reasons that make sense once you get involved. When the project is released, I\u2019ll be able to tell you I worked on it.<\/p>\n

Some of you may be asking (as I asked myself) \u201cWhat will that mean for your novel-writing?\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, in the short run, it will make it difficult.<\/p>\n

But in a few months, if things go as I expect, my day job situation is likely to change. At that time I\u2019ll probably be in a position to spend more time on the novel.<\/p>\n

Maybe all this won\u2019t work out. Maybe I\u2019ll find the company incompatible, or the work too challenging. But if it prospers, it could set me up for my old age in a very agreeable manner.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m very happy about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From time to time on this blog, thanks to Phil\u2019s patience and longsuffering, I review movies and TV shows. Sometimes they\u2019re foreign productions, often Scandinavian ones. One of my most frequent complaints about foreign films is the poor quality of the English translations. It appears I\u2019ll now be in a position to do something about … Continue reading The Norwegian word for ‘translator’ is ‘oversetter’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[970,1834,2048,3187],"class_list":["post-10548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-writing","tag-films","tag-meteoritt","tag-norwegian","tag-translation"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}