A review by ithinktfiam
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos

4.0

Another pandemic re-read. This isn't so much of a book as a series of essays masquerading as chapters. It also runs out of steam towards the end, with chapters getting shorter. That said, it's an interesting overview of translation and why it matters.

My favorite chapter was the one on how the EU manages all the translations even though they aren't really translations. The chapter on machine translation is dated. That isn't the author's fault, as we've made large leaps with that in the less than ten years since the book was published.

Overall, I think it's a nice book that anyone interested in translation would like. Oh, yeah, and the Douglas Adams reference is nice...