Funny Internet

These are some of the funny images of public domain I've been finding in the internet to share on the social networks and blogs. Have fun!

Donate Books!

 

      A good idea is for those who own an establishment, clinic, office, etc. to offer a box like this one, so that people can donate books and each child that appears there can take home for free at least one book, or even more. (The owner of the place must be the one to put the donated books in the box and keep an eye on it.)

Happy World Writers' Day!

      Besides the techniques and rules of his language that a writer learns to improve his gift, the most important thing is to write with feelings. Writing is a gift that walks hand in hand with imagination. Imagination is the main raw material of the writer. We can ask a writer to write about practically everything, even the most trivial things, and the words will flow naturally for him/her when composing his/her text.

Happy Translator's Day!

 

     The International Translators’ Day is celebrated on September 30th on the feast of St. Jerome, the Bible translator who is considered as the patron saint of translators because he translated what was recognized as the official version of the Bible into Latin, the Vulgate.

Translator's Month

     As we celebrate the Translator’s International Day on September 30^th, this month I’ll comment here a little bit about translations.

     Translation is not a mechanic act. It’s not the transcription of word for word of a text literally. It’s a kind of craftsmanship, even an art. In phrases, and, especially in paragraphs and longer texts, the meaning one wants to give to words and to the general context becomes more complex, and so it would be impossible to merely replace words. Translation is a combination of ideas, a composition elaborated with the knowledge of the origin and target languages and of several cultural aspects, besides other factors.

     Author of “Meu Próprio Livro”. I'm a professional translator, with a Letters/Translation degree. I've been working for more than 20 years in the area, with technical and especially literary translation. I’ve translated more than 190 books up to now, among novels, business books, biographies, self-help books, guides, working as a freelancer for renowned publishers. My ongoing projects to publish them in Portuguese and in English as well (besides the books I keep on translating):

- Book of positive personal phrases and an illustrated e-book of it

- My version of “Meu Próprio Livro” in English

- A second book with my articles and chronicles

- A novel about past lives

- A book with writing and translating tips

To those who may be interested, the link to the additional page of my Blog Aprendizes de Escritores where I comment about the books I’ve been translating through the years is as follows:

·                                 3 - Minhas Traduções / My Recent Translations

            Blog Aprendizes de Escritores/Writers’ Apprentices Blog

These are some of my recent translations:

WA's Bits and Pieces

Some of the Blog’s Miscellany:

     

Wherever you are, feel at home here
 in the Writers' Apprentices Blog!

Happy Father's Day

“When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.”

_ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy Valentine's Day!

From: BrainyQuote

“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”

 – Henry David Thoreau

From: BrainyQuote

Happy Mother's Day!

World Book Day
April 23rd

Very Interesting Book Benches

Happy Easter!

From: BrainyQuote

Images and words can complement themselves

 perfectly without outshining one another.

I’ve chosen this image (of internet public domain) to symbolize
the blog because, when I see it, I imagine someone arriving in a
pleasurable way (because I love to ride my bicycle) in a cozy
place like a house, a book store, a café. That’s the way I hope
visitors to feel in the Writers’ Apprentices Blog. tj*¬

"When man grew ambitious, God destroyed the

Tower of Babel, and everyone began to speak

different tongues. However, in His infinite grace,

 he also created people to rebuild those bridges,

to enable dialogue and the diffusion of human

thought. This person, whose name we rarely

take the trouble to notice when we open a

foreign book, is the translator.”

_ Paulo Coelho,

 “The Other Side of the Tower of Babel”

International Translators' Day - Sept. 30th

Translators are paths that lead from one

place to another without letting the reader

get lost in the middle of the journey. tj*¬

Writers’ apprentices are those who are already

born with the writing gift and improve it. They

become masters, even though they continue to

 be other masters’ apprentices, and so on. tj*¬

World Writers' Day - Oct. 13th

It’s so good to be able to be eclectic in general
and to enjoy what we really like without being
 prisoner of what others claim to be fashionable. tj*¬

Through continuous, comprehensive reforestation

and recycling we shall not be without paper for

what is really necessary, such as the good old

printed books, for instance.

When you can't be perfect at something, remember

perfect people are too boring. tj*¬

Yeah, I'm a bookworm, and so what?

Happy Children's Day!

 Happy International Women’s Day! – March 8th

Reading is one of the first steps for writing.

Fairy Tale Cottages

From: BrainyQuote

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Best Wishes from the

Writers' Apprentices Blog