Shawn Ligocki wrote:Just to clarify, a quick search yields:
The difference between interpreting and translation is only the difference in the medium: the interpreter translates orally, while a translator interprets written text.
And thanks for interpreting, Kevin! You really passed on the feeling of Ding Bo and Xie He ("Ah, now you have the courage to attack"
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haha, yea
ding bo was a hoot.
my first translation effort for him was a little rocky since he didn't know the general mood/method of teaching
also was sorta like a "first date" in the way that he didn't know how i translated and i didn't know how serious he was
by the last session with him the fact that he was calling everybody a "coward" was hilarious
Xie He was pretty cool
i only translated for him like.. three times? (two game reviews, one KGS review)
he was always very reserved
my highlight for him was at the end of one game review, this chinese 7 dan was "arguing" how big his opponents moyo was with Xie He showing him why it wasn't a problem
I mention that the 7dan was chinese because he ended up conversing with Xie He entirely in chinese which led me to translating the whole conversation
i think/hope the crowd got a kick out of it just to see a 7dan show the same "fears" and "worries" any other player would
a snippet of the conversation went like so:
7d: "Look at what white surrounded, how can anything i do affect that?"
XH: "Well you have these two sente points here that are big and reduce his territory and a simple reduction from the top and it's only 25 points"
7d: "But isn't that big?"
XH: "It really isn't as big as you think it is"
7d: "But i thought it was huge!"
XH: "It really isn't as big as you think it is"
so on and so forth
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on a side note
for future congressess if i'll be translating i'll probably write a note to the side of the pros lecture/game reviews i'll be translating for to let people know
the biggest problem i think with the chinese pros is that there is no pro that consistently shows up like Kansai Kiin's Maeda.
so every year i have to drum up interest and consistently advertise for the pros i do stuff for, that way at least there is SOME prior stability and interaction
it was definitley like this for last year's Chen Wei, and to some extent, this year's Ding Bo.
Chen Wei's lectures last year were like.... 5 for the first... 7 for the second and by his last "lecture" it was about 20 people. I say "lecture" because it was ACTUALLY a game review, but i decided so many people missed (or forgot) his first lecture that people would be better off getting his first lecture again. thankfully the crowd and Chen Wei agreed to this change (and hopefully got a lot out of it).