Effectively Wild Episode 1634: Found in Translation

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh talks to Jacky Bing-Sheng Lee, translator of the traditional Chinese edition of Ben’s book The MVP Machine, Hyunsung Kim, translator of the Korean edition of The MVP Machine, and Brendan O’Connor, assistant professor and linguistic anthropologist at the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University, about the challenges of translating a baseball […]

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0:00.0	We will share the world to make things work
0:08.0	We will terrorize everyone
0:13.0	Together
0:16.0	We will roll over the storm
0:21.0	Break them up
0:25.0	I need you not to stop
0:32.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1634 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from
0:37.6	Vangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the
0:41.8	Ringer. Meg Rallye is off today because it's Christmas week and she is a
0:45.8	sensible person so I a less sensible person and joined by three other people
0:50.6	I've been wanting to talk to for a while and our topics today are translating
0:55.4	baseball terminology into other languages and the role of bilingualism in
1:00.4	baseball and joining me to talk about that in Taipei, Taiwan is Jackie Bing
1:06.4	Shang Li the translator of the traditional Chinese version of my book with
1:10.7	Travis Sachik the MVP machine Jackie welcome to the podcast. Hello Ben thank you
1:16.6	for having me here and it's really a pleasure to be joining you guys and also
1:21.0	beyond this part I'm a loyal listener myself. Well thank you the pleasure is
1:25.6	mutual and I have a copy of your work the Chinese language edition of the book
1:30.4	which came out in May on my shelf and it looks great I'm sure it reads great
1:34.8	too. I do not yet have a copy of the Korean language edition of the book
1:39.4	which hasn't come out yet but it will soon because of the efforts of another
1:43.4	of our guests today Hyun Sung Kim Hyun Sung is joining us from Seoul South Korea
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