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    Response Paper: Michael Cronin, The Translation Age: Translation, Technology, and The New Instrumentalism

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    Michael Cronin's article discusses translation as a cultural practice that has evolved over time through human interactions with technology. [Cronin argues that translation has historically shaped and been shaped by technological developments, making it an important part of human history.] The second half of the article claims that recent digital technologies have made translation more utilitarian and accepted inaccurate translations. [However, the author of the response disagrees with this claim, pointing out that amateur translators may provide useful insights and that decentralization through technology also has benefits for translation.] The response raises questions about the future of professional translation in the digital age of decentralization and user-generated content.

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    Michael Cronin's article discusses translation as a cultural practice that has evolved over time through human interactions with technology. [Cronin argues that translation has historically shaped and been shaped by technological developments, making it an important part of human history.] The second half of the article claims that recent digital technologies have made translation more utilitarian and accepted inaccurate translations. [However, the author of the response disagrees with this claim, pointing out that amateur translators may provide useful insights and that decentralization through technology also has benefits for translation.] The response raises questions about the future of professional translation in the digital age of decentralization and user-generated content.

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    Translation Studies: Translation as a Cultural Practice

    Response Paper
    Michael Cronin, The Translation Age: Translation,
    Technology, and the New Instrumentalism

    Michael Cronin’s article is a fascinating one. It starts off by illustrating the


    genealogy of human development, specifically our interactions and the resultant
    symbiosis with the third system which allowed humans to “become the dominant
    species on the planet” (470) as characterised by archaeologist Timothy Taylor. Cronin
    characterises translation in the same vein, that it is not a mono-directional power
    dynamics, but we are also shaped by the tools as we shape them (471). I used to think
    of translation as simply a vocational tool, or “hard skill” without dwelling much on its
    history and evolvement over time. What Cronin has offered — at least in the first half
    of the reading — was refreshing and multidisciplinary in nature and provided the
    much absent (at least to me) flesh and blood of translation both as an academic study
    and an important artefact of human history.
    The second half of Cronin’s article is where my doubts and disputes are
    predominantly situated in. The gist is that the advent and proliferation of the IT Age
    and digitisation has made translation more utilitarian. Cronin further opines that
    grammatical aberrations and unidiomatic phrasing — due to the ubiquity of non-
    linearity and accelerated power reading — have become more accepted. While I agree
    that translation as a practice and technology has become more decentralised with the
    emergence of the prosumers and this definitely has influence on the rise of inaccurate
    translation, but is it enough grounds for Cronin to theorise the aforementioned?
    Where is the basis for that correlation? As someone who has been doing freelance
    translation — both as a hobby and livelihood, I see an abundance of merits in
    decentralisation of translation. For instance, many “untrained” translators may have
    insights and depth of knowledge that a professional translator may not have as he/she
    may not be familiar with the subject matter. I hope I am not over-reading Cronin’s
    argument but it appears to me that the future of translation that he depicts is one that
    is necessary inferior to the one prior to the IT age. But at the same time, it begets the
    elephant in the room — what is the future outlook for professional translators in the
    digital age — an era that is characterised by decentralisations and prosumption?

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