Johanna Bishop
@johannabishop.bsky.social
Je est un∙e autre, but also a translator from Italian
Translators: have you ever found yourselves making bizarre phonetic spelling mistakes (won>one), as if you were taking dictation? I’ve done this pretty much forever, but *only* when I’m translating, and usually in my quick first drafts. Otherwise I tend to be an excellent speller.
December 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Translators: have you ever found yourselves making bizarre phonetic spelling mistakes (won>one), as if you were taking dictation? I’ve done this pretty much forever, but *only* when I’m translating, and usually in my quick first drafts. Otherwise I tend to be an excellent speller.
Ieri sera ho ritirato delle stampe e della carta per mio marito docente alle medie. Costo: €53 di tasca sua. Ma una cazzo di fotocopiatrice a scuola, magari? Si può avere, nell'ottava economia mondiale? Ah no? Belle priorità davvero
December 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Ieri sera ho ritirato delle stampe e della carta per mio marito docente alle medie. Costo: €53 di tasca sua. Ma una cazzo di fotocopiatrice a scuola, magari? Si può avere, nell'ottava economia mondiale? Ah no? Belle priorità davvero
Papyrus plants are supposedly safe for cats, but not if the cat eats something unwise and then tries to purge with papyrus and vomits and the sharp leaves get stuck behind her palate. The last few days have been awful for everyone involved. Luckily we've still got our micia. Not the papyrus, though.
December 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Papyrus plants are supposedly safe for cats, but not if the cat eats something unwise and then tries to purge with papyrus and vomits and the sharp leaves get stuck behind her palate. The last few days have been awful for everyone involved. Luckily we've still got our micia. Not the papyrus, though.
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For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
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Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
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Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
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December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
I DO NOT WANT ANY MORE CANVAS TOTE BAGS WITH ANYONE'S CUTE LOGO AAAGGH STOP WITH THE TOTE BAGS ALREADY
December 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I DO NOT WANT ANY MORE CANVAS TOTE BAGS WITH ANYONE'S CUTE LOGO AAAGGH STOP WITH THE TOTE BAGS ALREADY
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ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
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"Machine translation would handle the heavy lifting, and we’d add the expert polish. Except the machine made a mess. And we’re doing expert-level cognitive labour to clean it up for cleaning wages.
We’re not mops. We’re translators."
#translation #xl8
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We’re not mops. We’re translators."
#translation #xl8
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An open letter to colleagues: we are not mops
After more than two decades working in legal translation across four languages and multiple jurisdictions, I’ve watched our profession reshaped by forces that claim efficiency as a path to our expenda...
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December 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"Machine translation would handle the heavy lifting, and we’d add the expert polish. Except the machine made a mess. And we’re doing expert-level cognitive labour to clean it up for cleaning wages.
We’re not mops. We’re translators."
#translation #xl8
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We’re not mops. We’re translators."
#translation #xl8
www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-l...
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Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
December 23, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
Just finished a 434-line poem in ABBAAB and feeling very proud‒which is much needed because I've been glum about translation lately. This means I'm halfway through the book and will need sets of three rhyming words only in one much shorter poem. Two now feels like half the weights are off the bar
December 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Just finished a 434-line poem in ABBAAB and feeling very proud‒which is much needed because I've been glum about translation lately. This means I'm halfway through the book and will need sets of three rhyming words only in one much shorter poem. Two now feels like half the weights are off the bar
Wasn’t planning on celebrating because I rarely do, been out of the country for 27 years, holiday makes me sad, also said country makes me sad. But just *happened* to buy a little piece of turkey and am making some cream of turkey soup with little herby dumplings. Stealth thankfulness, I guess
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Wasn’t planning on celebrating because I rarely do, been out of the country for 27 years, holiday makes me sad, also said country makes me sad. But just *happened* to buy a little piece of turkey and am making some cream of turkey soup with little herby dumplings. Stealth thankfulness, I guess
Linguists, you are the best. Happy Linguistics Day, and thank you for doing all those things I would never want to do myself—like analyzing spectrograms and corpus data—but I'm glad you seem to enjoy. Because I enjoy hearing about the results.
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Linguists, you are the best. Happy Linguistics Day, and thank you for doing all those things I would never want to do myself—like analyzing spectrograms and corpus data—but I'm glad you seem to enjoy. Because I enjoy hearing about the results.
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hi, can you do me a favor?
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
hi, can you do me a favor?
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
Just noticed that Hannity called Westchester, Nassau, and Suffolk "the outer boroughs." Also: reports are streaming in that rich people have been sighted in these places!
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Just noticed that Hannity called Westchester, Nassau, and Suffolk "the outer boroughs." Also: reports are streaming in that rich people have been sighted in these places!
Microsoft has the worst CAPTCHA ever, which is saying a lot. WTF, why are the images 1 mm tall? (It took a while to even identify the "person" they wanted me to move around.) Nice that after several hours of registration they've allowed me - for now - to use the laptop I spent hundreds of euros on
October 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Microsoft has the worst CAPTCHA ever, which is saying a lot. WTF, why are the images 1 mm tall? (It took a while to even identify the "person" they wanted me to move around.) Nice that after several hours of registration they've allowed me - for now - to use the laptop I spent hundreds of euros on
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When AI translation goes _sorely_ awry.
October 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
When AI translation goes _sorely_ awry.
Problem: fruit flies around the food waste container. Solution: whole cloves, which someone suggested as an alternative to the vinegar trap thing. It's prettier, smells better, and worked INSTANTLY
October 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Problem: fruit flies around the food waste container. Solution: whole cloves, which someone suggested as an alternative to the vinegar trap thing. It's prettier, smells better, and worked INSTANTLY
Author’s spouse is American
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Author’s spouse is American
Sunday (lorighittas)
October 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Sunday (lorighittas)
In my Italian town, pop. 35k, there was a march linked to a general strike in support of the Gaza aid flotilla, and even here, over 1000 people showed up. Because although the mayor is now on the right, it's still an industrial port with a long union history. Movement infrastructure is everything
Why doesn't the US have a general strike? Well you can point to culture or whatever but I think structure is of not immediate use here: does the US have organizations and institutions it can use to network, organize and mobilize a general strike? No.
October 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
In my Italian town, pop. 35k, there was a march linked to a general strike in support of the Gaza aid flotilla, and even here, over 1000 people showed up. Because although the mayor is now on the right, it's still an industrial port with a long union history. Movement infrastructure is everything
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for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
September 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
Sunday (spizzulus)
September 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Sunday (spizzulus)
Though not much of a peever, I wince every time I see something described with two words of such different weight that one of them gets flung off the seesaw. I keep coming across this lately, even in professional writing, and I am always outraged and miffed
September 18, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Though not much of a peever, I wince every time I see something described with two words of such different weight that one of them gets flung off the seesaw. I keep coming across this lately, even in professional writing, and I am always outraged and miffed
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you know at least the original nazis didnt have the gall to demand jewish ppl publically mourn Horst Wessel while simultaneously calling for pogroms
September 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
you know at least the original nazis didnt have the gall to demand jewish ppl publically mourn Horst Wessel while simultaneously calling for pogroms
Non ho nessun ricordo di una dichiarazione pubblica di Meloni sulla ferita profonda per la democrazia qualche mese fa quando ci fu l'assassinio e il tentato assassinio di alcuni legislatori in Minnesota, cioè rappresentanti politici *democraticamente eletti* dai cittadini
September 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Non ho nessun ricordo di una dichiarazione pubblica di Meloni sulla ferita profonda per la democrazia qualche mese fa quando ci fu l'assassinio e il tentato assassinio di alcuni legislatori in Minnesota, cioè rappresentanti politici *democraticamente eletti* dai cittadini