Many of the cameos have translated from web to big screen, including actors whose stars have seriously risen since 2009: Martin Freeman, as a muso-snob Mod record store owner; Maxine Peake as his partner; and Matt Berry as an eccentric label manager.
But the ability to catch the good waves while avoiding wipeouts seems to have translated from the beach to the engineering quad for Tom Katsouleas, who has led the Pratt School of Engineering for the past seven years.
Can you think of other mechanics that have translated from indie productions to the triple-A market?
· James Buchan has translated from Persian Hushang Golshiri's Shazdeh Ehtejab (The Prince, Harvill Secker).
She clutched a slip of paper with words she had translated from Polish using her pocket dictionary: "dizzy," "groin," "perspiration". Dr. Swingle asked her questions, speaking slowly.
The Chandlers are currently translating Teffi's "Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea," for NYRB Classics._ Among the writers Robert Chandler has translated from Russian for NYRB Classics are Alexander Pushkin, Vasily Grossman, and Andrey Platonov.
Friends of Ms. Triesman said the little-known writers she favors include the Vietnamese writer Linda Lê and the French writer Patrick Chamaoiseau, both of whom Ms. Triesman has translated from French.
Second, Channel 4 argues that it was testing boundaries: it was the first time this controversial standup comedian, always heavily edited for TV, had translated from a live stage act to full-length series.
He demurred at first but, when gently prodded, quoted what he had translated from Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles when his friend the great Polish poet Czesław Miłosz died in 2004.
This, together with the New Testament, which he had translated from the Greek before going to Palestine, constitutes the Vulgate, the standard Latin translation of the Bible used by the Roman Catholic Church.
Dr. Brooks also has translated from the Japanese three books of poetry and three philosophical works.
