Is "bon vivant" untranslatable?
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A new store is opening Monday in East Walnut Hills, featuring all the wonderful things that the French are good a. It’s called Le Bon Vivant, which means something like the Good Liver (which is why some French phrases are untranslatable). It’s owned by Catherine Meguire, who grew up in Louisville- blogs.forbes.com
If you like to take the long view, beyond day to day business and tech news, Google may have just made its most significant move of all. The company just announced that it has speech input and translate inside the Chrome browser. Using this, you can talk into the machine and [...] - www.thehindu.com
Narayan, author of Kocharethi, the first novel by an adivasi in Kerala, and Catherine Thankamma, who translated the book into English, talk about the book and its place on the literary scene. After seeing a prisoner beaten by a mysterious special forces team, one interpreter filed an official complaint. “I was very upset that such a thing could happen,” she wrote. “I take my responsibilities as an interrogator and as a human being very seriously.”
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To address the damage from the Bush administration’s interrogation and detention policies, the Obama administration should recognize the public servants who rejected torture.
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W.S. Di Piero burned through four collaborators to translate Euripides' play, Ion – his first and last attempt to translate from the Greek.
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Col Muammar Qaddafi's English translator says that Nato forces are driving Libya towards civil war rather than sending observers for mediation.- blogs.berkeley.edu
When I was in Tanzania, I would sometimes rest my head on my hand while I was sitting at the dinner table. It was just a thing I sometimes did, one of those things you do without thinking about it: put the palm of your hand under your chin and lean forward on it. It’s comfortable. But almost every t 
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Enquête L’auteur et son traducteur forment un duo fragile et complexe. Traduire c’est entamer un dialogue à distance tissé de questions et d’inquiétudes
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Enquête L’auteur et son traducteur forment un duo fragile et complexe. Traduire c’est entamer un dialogue à distance tissé de questions et d’inquiétudes- www.northamptonchron.co.uk
A PIONEERING pilot scheme will see translation cards introduced to help communicate with foreign criminals being held in police cells across Northamptonshire. - www.sequimgazette.com
Linguistic masters in their own right, Dale and Lillian Nesse recently celebrated the gift of language with a whole culture. 
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Google has released yet another new version of its Chrome web browser. Chrome 11 adds an HTML speech translator and also features a controversial new logo
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Word&Way is a trusted source of relevant news and opinion, serving Baptists throughout Missouri, and part of the New Voice Media network. 
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There are exceptional novels on this year’s shortlist for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award but, as always with such contests, there are questions as to why certain books didn’t make it
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John Self: The Impac literary award previously championed translations by authors worldwide. Why is this year's shortlist so conservative?
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Tandis que le déferlement d’informations continu sur Windows 8, une fonctionnalité bien particulière risque d’emporter une forte adhésion chez les utilisateurs itinérants et/ou ceux qui di- techcrunch.com
Yahoo has finally found a buyer for long suffering Delicious. YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have acquired the company, says Yahoo, via a 
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A TV writer travels to Russia to adapt a sitcom pilot and runs into plenty of cultural trouble along the way.- www.thisislondon.co.uk
An al Qaida operative accused of bombing Christian churches and a luxury hotel in Pakistan in 2002 was working for British intelligence at the same time, according to leaked files The blast, the worst before Wednesday's shooting, killed six American troops, four Afghan soldiers and an interpreter.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Eight American troops and a U.S. contractor died Wednesday after an Afghan military pilot opened fire during a meeting at Kabul airport — the deadliest episode to date of an Afghan turning against his coalition partners, officials said.- Charles Tiayon via Red T
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In October, the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment was dropped into the deadliest area of Afghanistan for international troops. Their ensuing battle for Sangin extracted a grim toll from their ranks. But when Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited last month, he said the result had been a “dramatic
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