Translations and Visualizations Tom Cheesman UK universities offering

Translations and Visualizations Tom Cheesman

UK universities offering degrees in languages 100 90 80 70 60 French 50 German Spanish 40 Italian 30 20 10 0 1998 2007 2013 Graphic: Dr Catherine Chabert, Cardiff University

Bonjour! Je m’appelle Ted

Bonjour! Hello! Good day! Good morning! Good afternoon! Je m’appelle Ted I’m called Ted I’m Ted My name is Ted’s my name The name’s Ted

If virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your son-in-law is far more fair than black. Duke of Venice: William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice

Othello (Paul Robeson) Desdemona (Uta Hagen) If virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your son-in-law is far more fair than black. Duke of Venice:

If virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.

Pour vous, seigneur, veuillez m’en croire, La vertu peut siéger sous une couleur noire. As for you, signior, believe me, Virtue can rule under a black banner. (Alfred de Vigny, 1830) Zählte bei Menschen nur der innre Schein, Würden wir dunkler als Othello sein. If what counted with people was only their inner appearance, We would be darker than Othello. (Hans Rothe, 1956)

40 versions of Othello in German, 1766 -2012

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Credits www. delightedbeauty. org/vvv (Version Variation Visualization) software developers: Dr Kevin Flanagan (Swansea University, Bristol University, SDL) Stephan Thiel (Studio Nand, Berlin) Stylometry: Dr Jan Rybicki (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) Thanks to: Dr Robert S Laramee (Swansea), Dr Zhao Geng (Swansea/Leeds), Prof Jonathan Hope (Strathclyde), Dr Dave Berry (Swansea/Sussex), Alison Ehrmann and many more