Archives – 25.03.11

• • [Kim Seong-kon] Funny and embarrassing Konglish
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  • Réjean Olivier édite le Dictionnaire des prêtres natifs de Sainte-Élisabeth entre 1800 et 2010 - Act
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  • Un dictionnaire nest jamais quune collection de chefs-doeuvre en désordre, actualité Culture :.
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  • Forcing religion takes away free will | Visalia Times-Delta and Tulare Advance-Register | visaliatim
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  • Eight Fallacies of Entrepreneurship
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  • Scottish Bible translator killed by Jerusalem bus stop bomb
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  • Wycliffe worker killed in Jerusalem bomb blast
    Wycliffe worker killed in Jerusalem bomb blastSource: www.inspiremagazine....A worker with Wycliffe Bible Translators died in the recent bomb blast in Jerusalem ...    Wycliffe Bible Translators are sad to announce the death of their member Mary Gardner in a terrorist explosion in Jerusalem on 23 March 2011, where she was studying Hebrew at The Home for Bibl […]
  • Novelist as critic Lastupdate:- Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:30:00 GMT GreaterKashmir.com
    Novelist as critic Lastupdate:- Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:30:00 GMT GreaterKashmir.comSource: www.greaterkashmir.comJohn Michael Coetzee was born in 1940 in Cape Town South Africa He holds the position of the Professorship of General Literature at the University of Cape Town Besides being a novelist of world acclaim he is also an accomplished critic and translator […]
  • Want to know everything about dictionary webster?: Report: 'Earmark' Now a Word in the English Dict
    Want to know everything about dictionary webster?: Report: 'Earmark' Now a Word in the English DictSource: dictionary-webster.blogspot.comMerriam-Webster Inc. announced in early July that the word "earmark" -- used to describe pork-barrel spending projects both loved and loathed by lawmakers -- is now a part of the dictionary, according t […]
  • OMG, FYI, and LOL enter Oxford English Dictionary, foreshadow the apocalypse -- Engadget
    OMG, FYI, and LOL enter Oxford English Dictionary, foreshadow the apocalypse -- EngadgetSource: www.engadget.comIn an acknowledgement of the internet's overwhelming influence on the triviality we sometimes refer to as 'real life,' the Oxford English Dictionary
  • Love-struck dictionary users heartened by OED's new arrival - The Irish Times - Thu, Mar 24, 2011
    Love-struck dictionary users heartened by OED's new arrival - The Irish Times - Thu, Mar 24, 2011Source: www.irishtimes.comLIKE THE wheels of justice, the Oxford English Dictionary moves slowly but with great authority.
  • Links to online TS journals with free access
    Links to online TS journals with free access Source: www.cirinandgile.com
  • Grace Ministries celebrates the fruit of 76 years
    Grace Ministries celebrates the fruit of 76 yearsSource: www.mnnonline.org"Baba Vi," as he came to be known, carved a mission station out of the equatorial forest with the hope of launching a ministry that would make Christ's name central. Eventually it became Grace Ministries International.
  • Translating the bible into exotic and rare languages - Monsters and Critics
    Translating the bible into exotic and rare languages - Monsters and CriticsSource: www.monstersandcriti...Language specialist Wolfgang Schulze is critical of the idea of developing scripts for exotic languages for a specific purpose, such as spreading the Bible.'This is intervening in the existing cultural traditions,' said Schulze. In order not to […]
  • Awards for Indian Muslims last fortnight
    Awards for Indian Muslims last fortnightSource: www.milligazette.comMAAHIR MANSOOR, presently Visiting Professor in the Department of English of Bangalore’s Al Ameen Degree College has been selected for Sahitya Academy’s Award for Urdu translations. For the current year’s translation awards, translations of books during the period 1 January 2004 and 31 Decem […]
  • Protest Poetry for Liu Xiaobo at the Book Lounge (Videos)
    Protest Poetry for Liu Xiaobo at the Book Lounge (Videos)Source: book.co.zaFollowing the Norwegian Nobel Committee's Prize for Peace award to Chinese dissident, Liu Xiaobo, a campaign began to translate his co-authored Charter 08 and his poem You Wait for Me with Dust into a number of different languages. This was done with a view to organising a worldw […]
  • On Reviewing Translations: Susan Bernofsky, Jonathan Cohen, and Edith Grossman
    On Reviewing Translations: Susan Bernofsky, Jonathan Cohen, and Edith GrossmanSource: wordswithoutborders.orgThis document was submitted to Words Without Borders for    You ought to review a translation as you would any other book, but please keep in mind that every translation is written twice: first by its author, then by its translator. The work in Englis […]

  • King James Version turns 400
    King James Version turns 400Source: www.heraldextra.comKing James Version turns 400 - Break out the birthday cake -- the really, really big birthday cake. Big enough for 400 candles, that is. With the calendar turning over to 2011, it has been 400 years since the first printing of the King James Version of the Holy Bible. In honor of King James's speci. […]
  • Princeton University - University curriculum evolves with faculty and student interests
    Princeton University - University curriculum evolves with faculty and student interestsSource: www.princeton.edu"Take, for example, the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication," he said, referring to an undergraduate certificate program established in 2007. "Faculty members and students certainly were doing everything from trans […]
  • The Bible’s royal sanction | Washington Times Communities
    The Bible’s royal sanction | Washington Times CommunitiesSource: communities.washingt...In 1408 an English Bible was a forbidden book. In 1537 the Bible was fully authorized and by 1539 ordered to be placed in every Church—75 years before KJV. What happened?
  • Raider Publishing for African Authors
    Raider Publishing for African AuthorsSource: www.raiderpublishing...Comprehensive book publishing services for authors, writers, poets, novelists etc. in Africa. These services include editing, formatting, layout, printing, distribution, production and promotion.
  • Multilingual Matters - Publisher Contact Information
    Multilingual Matters - Publisher Contact InformationSource: www.jacketflap.comMultilingual Matters is an international independent publishing house, with lists in the areas of bilingualism, second/foreign language learning, soci    Books on translation, interpreting, etc.
  • Common Sense Advisory Predictions for 2010: How Did We Do? - GLG News
    Common Sense Advisory Predictions for 2010: How Did We Do? - GLG NewsSource: www.glgroup.comSince 2005, Common Sense Advisory has published predictions regarding what will happen to the language services industry throughout the coming year. However, we also hold ourselves accountable by revisiting our predictions and conducting a self-evaluation after the ye […]
  • Common Sense Advisory Predictions for 2010: How Did We Do? - GLG News
    Common Sense Advisory Predictions for 2010: How Did We Do? - GLG NewsSource: www.glgroup.comSince 2005, Common Sense Advisory has published predictions regarding what will happen to the language services industry throughout the coming year. However, we also hold ourselves accountable by rev
  • Egypt's banned graphic novel to be published in English
    Egypt's banned graphic novel to be published in EnglishSource: edition.cnn.com An Egyptian cartoonist who was arrested and had his graphic novel banned under Hosni Mubarak's regime is to be published in English.Magdy El Shafee wrote the graphic novel "Metro" in 2008. It was banned in his home country and El Shafee was convicted of offendi […]
  • The Political Economy of Egypt, translated into Arabic - Books - Ahram Online
    The Political Economy of Egypt, translated into Arabic - Books - Ahram OnlineSource: english.ahram.org.eg"The Political Economy of Egypt", which was translated into Arabic by the National Centre for Translation, is a critical review of the period in Egypt from 1990-2005, which witnessed the systematic application of the policies of privatisation an […]
  • Call for Papers : "Writing Africa"
    Call for Papers : "Writing Africa"Source: www.h-net.orgUCTs Centre for African Studies and its interdisciplinary postgraduate, peer-reviewed journal, postamble invite you to submit papers, photographic essays and book reviews that deal with what it means to write about or from Africa.
  • Review: Lydia Davis’s new translation of Madame Bovary – The Beaver
    Review: Lydia Davis’s new translation of Madame Bovary – The BeaverSource: thebeaveronline.co.ukFor a book so carefully constructed, it’s hard to think of a happier choice of translator than the eminently precise fiction writer Lydia Davis. Though she’s been acclaimed recently as a translator of Proust, Davis’s pairing with Flaubert seems even more apt. Afte […]
  • The First IsiZulu Dictionary Published In 40 Years : NewsTime : GALLIMAUFRY :
    The First IsiZulu Dictionary Published In 40 Years : NewsTime : GALLIMAUFRY :Source: www.newstime.co.zaNewsTime : GALLIMAUFRY : : The First IsiZulu Dictionary Published In 40 Years : By Megan Hall ; As the first substantial bilingual IsiZulu dictionary in 40 years reaches bookstores, I find myself thinking more and more often ab..    As the first substantial […]
  • 4th Joint Seminar Organised by the CVC and Termisti : Neology and Specialised Translation
    4th Joint Seminar Organised by the CVC and Termisti : Neology and Specialised TranslationSource: www.termisti.orgSeminar Termisti - CVC : Neology and Specialised Translation
  • Luspio Translation Automation Conference (LTAC)
    Luspio Translation Automation Conference (LTAC)Source: ltac.luspio.itLuspio Translation Automation Conference (LTAC)
  • How the King James Bible still influences the way we speak 400 years after it was written - The Dail
    How the King James Bible still influences the way we speak 400 years after it was written - The DailSource: www.dailyrecord.co.ukIT'S the most widely-read text in the English language, influencing everything from art and culture to the way we speak. And this year the King James Bible celebrates its 400th anniversary.
  • News: Speech given by Times defence correspondent on interpreters in war zones | News | University o
    News: Speech given by Times defence correspondent on interpreters in war zones | News | University oSource: www.salford.ac.ukBelow is a lecture given by Times defence correspondent Deborah Haynes on Wednesday 28 October 2009 to mark the 25th anniversary of Salford's MA Translation.
  • Translation Seminar by Professor Kirsten Malmkjaer at HKBU on 7/4/2011
    Translation Seminar by Professor Kirsten Malmkjaer at HKBU on 7/4/2011Source: www.tran.hkbu.edu.hk    Upcoming Translation Seminar at HKBUTitle: What is Translator Competence?Speaker: Professor Kirsten MalmkjarDate: 2011/4/7Time: 7:00-9:00PM
  • NOI Polls tips Jonathan, Fashola for April elections
    NOI Polls tips Jonathan, Fashola for April electionsSource: www.businessdayonline.comPresenting the report of the opinion poll it conducted on the April polls with regard to the presidential and Lagos gubernatorial elections, the NOI Polls, yesterday in Lagos, said 53 percent of the total respondents interviewed nationwide were of the strong view that Jonath […]
  • Between Pidgin English And Vernacular By EKAIWE IGINUA OSEMWEKHA
    Between Pidgin English And Vernacular By EKAIWE IGINUA OSEMWEKHASource: nigerianobservernews.comthe teaching of English Language in Benin Kingdom did not quite reflect my definition because our language was referred to as vernacular, not to be spoken in the classroom.Consequently, the early learners of English language became enslaved by the limitations of t […]