{"id":14164,"date":"2015-02-28T19:17:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T19:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/all-this-code-translation-is-not-unproblematic\/"},"modified":"2015-02-28T19:17:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T19:17:38","slug":"all-this-code-translation-is-not-unproblematic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/all-this-code-translation-is-not-unproblematic\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>All this code translation is not unproblematic. There is a kind of cultural colonization that occurs when the scripting\/coding language is based on English. Non-English speakers &amp; programmers are limited in their understanding of the programming logic and the language play of code poetry. I can imagine a purer kind of translation, in which the work is ported to a (currently nonexistent) Spanish JavaScript and HTML code and every variable and function is translated to create a completely standalone Spanish language version of the work, one that would not necessitate a conversation with the original work and source code. But I suspect such ideal translations only exist in a Library imagined by Borges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/leonardoflores.net\/blog\/about-my-spanish-translation-of-enigma-n\/\">About my Spanish Translation of \u201cEnigma n\u201d | Leonardo Flores, PhD<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All this code translation is not unproblematic. There is a kind of cultural colonization that occurs when the scripting\/coding language is based on English. Non-English speakers &amp; programmers are limited in their understanding of the programming logic and the language play of code poetry. I can imagine a purer kind of translation, in which the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3Gs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}