- The career path of author and translator Thomas Pletzinger has taken him from Münster to Hamburg, New York, Leipzig, and Berlin, where he now runs the literary studio known as “adler & söhne literatur.” He is the recipient of numerous prizes, including a prestigious Uwe-Johnson-Förderpreis in 2009 a
life.nationalpost.comBy Michael Higgins A new English translation of the Roman Missal — used by Catholics in Mass — is under attack by some priests, with clergy in Ireland calling it archaic, elitist, obscure and sexist. Priests in Australia and the United States have also criticized the new translation, which has been- DEAR BILLY GRAHAM: Some people came to our door the other day to talk about their religion. When I asked them a question, they answered by reading from their Bible, which is published by their group. They claimed its the only reliable version of the Bible and all others are false. Are they right?
abcnews.go.comNobel Literature Juror in RI Denies Prize Biases
Liturgy has always aroused strong passions. In the 19th century, some London churches served by Anglican priests who wore lace were stoned. So it is not surprising that the introduction of a new translation of the Catholic Mass should be turbulent. By Andrew Hamilton
« Comment dire ? » Si l’expression ponctue souvent les conversations les plus courantes, elle revêt une importance particulière quand elle préside à l’élection d’une langue d’écriture. Nul ne l’a mieux démontré que de grands auteurs comme Beckett, Cioran, ou encore Kundera, ayant délaissé leur langu…
La chanteuse Sylvie Bourban rend hommage à ses racines valaisannes avec “Carnet de route”, un album qui donne à la langue du Vieux Pays des envies d’ailleurs. “Le souvenir que j’avais du patois avant de travailler à ce disque, c’était la voix rocailleuse de mon grand-papa Sylvain…” De ces voix q…- BERLIN — Little faces watched Kathy MacMillan use American Sign Language to illustrate sleepiness, bathing, even pizza for lunch, then tiny fingers imitated her.
It took some hard pounding and tough talking, but we got there in the end. The six novels featured on this page make up the shortlist for the 2011 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. They will compete for the £10,000 award, divided equally (and uniquely) between author and translator. The winner will- media-newswire.com
- whitmanpioneer.comHow often in your academic career do you get to write about gangsters and a man everyone thinks is a kangaroo? With her honors theatre thesis, senior Raisa Stebbins gets to do just that. Stebbins, a theatre major with a minor in Japanese, translated the Japanese full-length play “Kangaroo,” which ha
Ecrire en tamazight aujourd’hui signifie beaucoup. Pour nous d’abord qui avions lutté pour que cette langue échappe à une disparition presque programmée, ensuite je dirais par solidarité aussi à tous ceux qui partagent avec nous le même destin ou les mêmes préoccupations existentielles. Ensuite pour…
Ecrire en kabyle aujourd’hui pour exister demain
Alison Flood: The Italian edition of a youth catechism mistakenly gives the impression that contraception is permitted for Catholic couples- (opinion article by James Bradley, Head of English Copy at Mother Tongue Writers, the UK’s largest specialist adaptation and transcreation agency base…
marieclaudeducas.infopresse.comInternet, et contrairement à ce que l’on entend souvent, contribue bien plus à enrichir notre intelligence et nos connaissances qu’à nous abrutir ou à nous inonder de « niaiseries ». C’est finalement là que je trouve le temps.
Miné par plusieurs importantes erreurs de traduction, le catéchisme pour les jeunes, conçu pour les JMJ de cet été, vient au monde dans la douleur. L’ouvrage devait être l’objet vedette des sacs à dos des participants aux prochaines JMJ de Madrid. Le Youcat (“Youth Catechism”, catéchisme pour les je…- jamaica-gleaner.comThe Bilingual Education Project (2004-2008) was a Ministry of Education-approved project to implement, from grades one to four, an education project which was intended to use both Jamaican and English fully …
LUXEMBOURG – Le Luxembourg est le pays européen dont les habitants lisent le plus de journaux en langue étrangère et regardent le plus des chaînes de télévision d autres pays, selon une étude Eurostat publiée jeudi.
App stores are brimming with apps that will help you learn a language from the comfort of your home, but most are focused on the typical textbook style learning experience and don’t make the most of the smartphone operating system (or French humor).- La Fédération suisse des sourds présente demain l’aboutissement d’un travail de longue haleine: un lexique de signes dans nos 3 langues nationales.
- One is sure to be awed when coming across the several terms used in military which they would have never had an idea. Though most of the citizens of a country will claim to know more about the military terms, they must cross check themselves with the dictionaries exclusively dedicated to explore all…
- theafricanking.tumblr.comSimilarities in West African Pidgin English africanrelic: “ thatnigeriankid: “ • Sierra Leone Krio: Dem dey go for go it res — They are going there to eat rice • Nigerian Pidgin English: Dem dey go…
- At a Vatican press conference today, officials admitted that a book intended to teach young people the details of the Catholic faith, which will be handed out at upcoming World Youth Day in Spain, contains several errors, with particularly egregious mistakes on life and family issues. Cardinal Chri…
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The blog Subject Object Verb has an interview with Chi-Young Kim, the translator of Shin Kyung-sook‘s “Please Look After Mom,” which won over the NYT and is doing quite well in the United States. Now, “Please Look After Mom” might
blog.lionbridge.comGeoFluent will empower customers with on-demand translation, meeting their information needs at affordable translation costs.
flaxenwave.blogspot.com- translation-blog.multilizer.comQuite many professional translators are afraid that they will be replaced by emerging technology: machine translation. Machine translation would take their jobs or at least lower their salaries. I made some Internet searches and found interesting numbers. This article is about how many translators a
oceantranslations.blogspot.comBlog of Ocean Translations,leading language specialist in Spanish Translation and Portuguese Translation for the medical, commercial and technical fields- copywriting.deLow translation rates are being discussed passionately everywhere in the translation community, and rightly so. I know it’s tempting to accept low rates just to get a job, but in the long run, this hurts the translator and the whole community of translators equally:
blog.languagetranslation.comAn aging population means a greater need for medical language translation and interpretation.The Translator-Traitor Mentality (TTM) made a guest appearance on the prime-time hit TV show, Law & Order LA, when an interpreter killed the star witness – a little boy – in a murder trial (watch at 34 minutes in).
As the police investigate a quinceanera massacre, one of them pays the ultimate price.
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