Translation – Los Francesianos

Posted on 2020-07-07 by arjaybe

As I announced last Fall, David, at Artifacs Libros has been translating the Green Comet trilogy. After enduring the trials of this exceptional year, he wrote to let me know that he has finished translating the third volume — The Francesians. I have had a look at it and, as with the first two, it appears to be well done. The layout is good. The modifications to the cover are good. The front matter is better than the original. However, since I can’t read Spanish I can’t say anything about the translation itself. I ran the Green Comet translation — Cometa Verde — through a translator to see how it looked back in English, and found it to be quite different from the original. That makes sense when I think about it.

Given that, I would really appreciate it if any of you who can read Spanish would download Los Francesianos and let the rest of us know what you think.

That completes the translation of the trilogy into Spanish. Please help me thank David for his hard work. It gives me a good feeling to know that these books will be accessible by another large group of people. Here are the three books:

Cometa Verde
Titiriteros Parásitos
Los Francesianos

Please download them and let David know how good you think they are.

Thank you.

rjb

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Human Rights – Article Eleven

Posted on 2020-07-06 by arjaybe

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages.

Article 11.

(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Presumption of innocence. Judgements are not to be based on retroactive laws, and neither are penalties.

rjb

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Human Rights – Article Ten

Posted on 2020-06-28 by arjaybe

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages.

Article Ten

Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

A fair trial, should it come to that, is everyone’s right. Even before that, they’re entitled to have any judgements of them be made in public, by an independent body.

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