Archives – 08.02.11

• National Translation Center >> CENETRA status
  National Translation Center >> CENETRA statusSource: www.cenatra.nat.tnThe National Translation Centre (NTC) is a national cultural institution set up by the Decree no. 401/2006 dated February 3, 2006. It is a public non-administrative institution, enjoying legal personality and financial autonomy, and operating under the direction of the Ministry of C […]
• The cheapest path to translation
  The cheapest path to translationSource: techcommdood.comI found a question on Quora asking about the cheapest way to translate a document. My response follows. You need to define “cheapest” as there are costs to cutting corners to get a less expensive translation. Sure, you can pump
• Machine Translator Detector or Is It Google? | One Hour Translation Blog
  Machine Translator Detector or Is It Google? | One Hour Translation BlogSource: blog.onehourtranslat...Machine translation like Google Translate became a very popular translation tool.In some cases machine translation can help read and understand the general
• Are you making the best use of social media for your business? « Translator T.O.
  Are you making the best use of social media for your business? « Translator T.O.Source: blogproz.wordpress.comAre you making the best use of social media for your business?
• Literature in search of a language
  Literature in search of a languageSource: tribune.com.pkWhile most people visited the Karachi Literature Festival for acclaimed writers, others gathered in the Maharani Hall of Carlton Hotel, Karachi, to catch up with those writing in Pakistan’s regional languages.A one-hour session on Sunday afternoon, moderated by author and journalist Mohammad Hanif...
• Is the translation crowdsourcing market getting too crowded? | GTS Blog
  Is the translation crowdsourcing market getting too crowded? | GTS BlogSource: blog.gts-translation...Crowdsourcing is one of the hot trends in the translation industry. Many industry insiders and translation companies are thinking of ways to use the power of
• Translation Spaces A multidisciplinary, multimedia, and multilingual journal of translation
  Translation Spaces A multidisciplinary, multimedia, and multilingual journal of translation Source: www.benjamins.com    Translation Spaces is an annual, peer-reviewed journal that recognizes the global interdisciplinary impact of translation. The journal envisions translation as a complex set of socio-cultural spaces where people and populations encounter o […]
• FT.com / Books / Non-Fiction - The Language Wars
  FT.com / Books / Non-Fiction - The Language WarsSource: www.ft.comHenry Hitchings catalogues a melodrama of linguistic dispute. In The Language Wars, Henry Hitchings, who has already written to great effect on Dr Johnson’s Dictionary (2006) and, with their etymology in mind, on The Secret Life of Words (2008), does not shy. In just over 400 densely researche […]
• Learning Exotic Thai Language
  Learning Exotic Thai LanguageSource: www.travelinthailand.orgThai is the official language of Thailand spoken by over 25 million local people. Thai is a tonal and analytic language. Thai alphabet covers a large amount of letters: 44 consonants being pure Thai letters, 32 vowels and 5 phonemic tones, including high, low, middle, falling and rising ones, which […]
• Interactive Intelligence Chooses Yap Voicemail-To-Text Service | TradingMarkets.com
  Interactive Intelligence Chooses Yap Voicemail-To-Text Service | TradingMarkets.comSource: www.tradingmarkets.comTradingMarkets News for Interactive Intelligence Chooses Yap Voicemail-To-Text Service
• New missal translation 'archaic': Irish priests' group - CathNews
  New missal translation 'archaic': Irish priests' group - CathNewsSource: www.cathnews.comA group representing more than 400 of Ireland's 4,500 priests made an urgent plea to the country's bishops to postpone for at least another five years the introduction of the new English translation of the missal, said a Catholic News Service rep […]
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• Dictionary Culture and Anti-Fluency | FPJ
  Dictionary Culture and Anti-Fluency | FPJSource: www.foreignpolicyjournal.comWhether studying an Asian language or teaching English in Asia, you will often find yourself butting heads with Confucianism and other cultural forces which impede your students' ability to learn or your teacher's ability to teach.
• News Valais - LE NUMÉRIQUE POUR DÉLIER LES LANGUES
  News Valais - LE NUMÉRIQUE POUR DÉLIER LES LANGUESSource: www.lenouvelliste.chÉcouter des fichiers, les répéter, décrire des images, créer des podcasts, faire des dictées ou même doubler des films! A Collombey-Muraz, les élèves du Cycle d'orientation peuvent même faire du chat depuis quelques semaines. Grâce à un logiciel novateur, l'établissement […]
• Anushka factor earns some extra bucks!
  Anushka factor earns some extra bucks!Source: www.supergoodmovies.comHaving Anushka as one of the female leads will always help the producers to earn some extra bucks. Anushka’s craze in Telugu
• Be Proactive in Your Job Search: Both Online and Off
  Be Proactive in Your Job Search: Both Online and OffSource: www.foxbusiness.comJanuary was a bit of a perplexing month for the labor market. The unemployment rate dropped to 9%, yet employers only added 36,000 jobs, a quarter of what was expected, and a mere fraction of the 200,000 plus per month needed to get us back to pre-recession levels. Bottom line, th […]
• “Transfer” V: 2 (noviembre 2010) - Kathryn Batchelor. (2009). Decolonizing Translation: Francophone
  “Transfer” V: 2 (noviembre 2010) - Kathryn Batchelor. (2009). Decolonizing Translation: FrancophoneSource: www.raco.cat    REVIEWOut of some 1500 published sub-Saharan Francophone African novels, 72 have been translated into English and none of them has been translated more than once, except for one (Ahmadou Kourouma‟s 1998 En attendant le vote des bêtes sau […]
• Three Percent: Visitation [Why This Book Should Win the BTBA]
  Three Percent: Visitation [Why This Book Should Win the BTBA]Source: www.rochester.eduSimilar to years past, we’re going to be featuring each of the 25 titles on the BTBA Fiction Longlist over the next month plus, but in contrast to previous editions, this year we’re going to try an experiment and frame all write-ups as “why this book should win.” Some of th […]
• Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
  Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeSource: www.foyles.co.ukIndependent Foreign Fiction Prize see the current shortlist and all previous winners
• Davies and Khoury win Banipal Prize « Quercus Books
  Davies and Khoury win Banipal Prize « Quercus BooksSource: www.quercusbooks.co.ukLast Monday, January 31, saw the award ceremony in London for the Society of Author’s translation prizes. Humphrey Davies, the winner of the fifth Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation was unable to attend due to the situation in Cairo, where he lives, so th […]
• Connecting to Arabic culture through culture - The National
  Connecting to Arabic culture through culture - The NationalSource: www.thenational.aeThe Arab British Centre, a non-profit organisation based in London, aims to educate Londoners about the Arab world
• RSuite Cloud: Push-Button Publishing
  RSuite Cloud: Push-Button PublishingSource: newsbreaks.infotoday.com“Some publishers are very good at managing technology and some are not,” says Barry Bealer, CEO of Really Strategies, Inc. That’s one of the reasons the company rolled out its latest product called RSuite Cloud, a cloud-based, push-button publishing system for print and digital products. It’ […]
• Mediawatch - 07/02/2011: Actions speak louder than words
  Mediawatch - 07/02/2011: Actions speak louder than wordsSource: www.abc.net.auLesson number two: sometimes more flood footage isnt what your viewers need to see. Especially if theyre deaf or hearing-impaired.Starting on January the twelfth, the day that Ipswich and Brisbane were flooded, Premier Anna Bligh was accompanied by an interpreter using Australian S […]
• Seigneur des anneaux : la réécriture russe gratuite ActuaLitté - Les univers du livre
  Seigneur des anneaux : la réécriture russe gratuite ActuaLitté - Les univers du livreSource: www.actualitte.comActualitté - Il faut être russe ou un peu malade pour avoir tenté une traduction manu militari du Seigneur des Anneaux, doublée d'une réécriture de la trilogie de Tolkien. Mais en même temps, l
• Euroalert.net - Commission announces winners of the 2010 Young Translators’ Contest - News about the
  Euroalert.net - Commission announces winners of the 2010 Young Translators’ Contest - News about theSource: euroalert.netThe European Commission has announced the names of the 27 winners of its annual ‘Juvenes Translatores’ Young Translators' Contest, which this year has registered a record participation with around 3,000 17-year-old secondary school pu […]
• Bookslut | To Hell with Cronjé by Ingrid Winterbach, translated by Elsa Silke
  Bookslut | To Hell with Cronjé by Ingrid Winterbach, translated by Elsa SilkeSource: www.bookslut.comBook reviews, interviews, columns, and musings.
• The rise and fall of the Bible illuminates the text's unexpected history
  The rise and fall of the Bible illuminates the text's unexpected historySource: www.physorg.comChristians have a buying penchant for Bibles, but Case Western Reserve University religious studies professor Timothy Beal finds 'the Word' gets lost between popular culture appeals and value add-ons that tell people how to think and interpret whats […]
• ‘Traduire’, de Nurith Aviv «
  ‘Traduire’, de Nurith Aviv «Source: malapartiana.wordpre...Recién se ha estrenado en Francia el documental Traduire, de Nurith Aviv. La película es, después de D’une langue a l’autre y Langue sacrée, langue parlée, la tercera parte de una trilogía dedicada al lenguaje. La cinta se centra en la experiencia de distintos traductores –entre ellos nuestro colosa […]
• Euroalert.net - Commission announces winners of the 2010 Young Translators’ Contest - News about the
  Euroalert.net - Commission announces winners of the 2010 Young Translators’ Contest - News about theSource: euroalert.netThe European Commission has announced the names of the 27 winners of its annual ‘Juvenes Translatores’ Young Translators' Contest, which this year has registered a record participation with around 3,000 17-year-old secondary school pu […]
• The Return of Navajo Boy Gets French Subtitles | Groundswell Educational Films
  The Return of Navajo Boy Gets French Subtitles | Groundswell Educational FilmsSource: groundswellfilms.orgWhen “The Return of Navajo Boy” was screened at the Amiens Film Festival last year in France, festival organizers had it subtitled specially for the event.
• Prompt Proofing Blog Post: To Hyphenate or Not to Hyphenate?
  Prompt Proofing Blog Post: To Hyphenate or Not to Hyphenate?Source: pr-usa.netI would have retired to Costa Rica in luxury years ago if I had a dollar every time a teacher got this one wrong on a student's report card.Johnny is a well-behaved child. Correct. Johnny is a well behaved child. Wrong.Johnny is well behaved. Correct. Johnny is well-behaved. W […]
• GlossaryOfMarketing.com – Online Marketing and Advertising Dictionary
  GlossaryOfMarketing.com – Online Marketing and Advertising DictionarySource: www.glossaryofmarketing.comGlossaryOfMarketing.com. Easy-to-use free marketing dictionary with over 6,000 definitions. Concise, clear, and comprehensive definitions of all terms used in the marketing, advertising and sales worlds