Archives - 12.03.11

• • Alexandre Wolff, responsable de l'Observatoire de la langue française
    Alexandre Wolff, responsable de l'Observatoire de la langue françaiseSource: www.rfi.fr« Contrairement à ce que l'on dit... le français reste une langue enseignée à peu près partout dans le monde. Dans beaucoup de pays, elle est le support de l'enseignement dès les premières étapes d'alphabétisation. »
  • Portrait de la créatrice des méthodes de remédiation orthographique Hugo et les rois et Défi 9 - Ann
    Portrait de la créatrice des méthodes de remédiation orthographique Hugo et les rois et Défi 9 - AnnSource: madame.lefigaro.frÀ l’occasion de la Semaine de la langue française, rencontre avec la créatrice d’une étonnante méthode de remise à niveau orthographique - Portrait de la créatrice des méthodes de remédiation orthographique Hugo et les rois et Défi 9 […]
  • openPR.com - Press release - wordbee - Wordbee rewarded at CeBIT 2011
    openPR.com - Press release - wordbee - Wordbee rewarded at CeBIT 2011Source: www.openpr.comThe Wordbee company has developed the Wordbee Translator software, an online collaborative platform for project management and Computer-Assisted Translation. Wordbee also offers advice and support for the companies or the public institutions who want to integrate the m […]
  • Patient safety 'fluency' requires more than language interpreters - FierceHealthcare
    Patient safety 'fluency' requires more than language interpreters - FierceHealthcareSource: www.fiercehealthcare...Today marks the end of the National Patient Saftey Foundation's annual "Patient Safety Awareness Week." It's a good time to review your policies and procedures around medication safety, infection... Read more...
  • Systran: forte baisse du résultat net en 2010
    Systran: forte baisse du résultat net en 2010Source: votreargent.lexpress.frSystran a dévoilé hier soir un résultat net-part du groupe- de 82.000 euros pour son exercice 2010, en forte baisse par rapport aux 304.000 euros de 2009.
  • Qu'est-ce que l'Ultralibéralisme ? - AgoraVox le média citoyen
    Qu'est-ce que l'Ultralibéralisme ? - AgoraVox le média citoyenSource: www.agoravox.frOn entend dire ici et là, à l'occasion de débats sur la crise économique que "l'ultralibéralisme" n'existe pas. Il (...)
  • « DIS-MOI DIX MOTS » - Actualité Livres - EVENE
    « DIS-MOI DIX MOTS » - Actualité Livres - EVENESource: www.evene.fr« DIS-MOI DIX MOTS ». Lancée en septembre 2010 par le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, l'opération « Dis-moi dix mots » qui débute dans le cadre de la semaine de la langue française, propose à tous les francophones de France et d'ailleurs de s'amuser avec la lang […]
  • Les 6ème Rencontres européennes de littérature ouvrent leurs portes – Actualité littéraire | MyBOOX
    Les 6ème Rencontres européennes de littérature ouvrent leurs portes – Actualité littéraire | MyBOOXSource: www.myboox.frPour la sixième année consécutive, les Rencontres européennes de littérature se dérouleront à Strasbourg, vendredi 11 et samedi 12 mars. L’occasion de découvrir ou de se[...] « Traduire l’Europe » : voici le thème de cette sixième éditio […]
  • Calenda - Linguistiques et colonialismes - APPEL À CONTRIBUTION
    Calenda - Linguistiques et colonialismes - APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONSource: calenda.revues.orgLe numéro 19 de la revue de sociolinguistique en ligne Glottopol aura pour thématique « linguistiques et colonialismes». L'appel à contributions est ouvert jusqu'au 1er novembre 2011. Les participations de chercheurs en sciences du langage, histoire, anthropolo […]
  • Un travail digne de mention pour le CFP de Memphrémagog - Éducation - Société - Le Reflet du Lac
    Un travail digne de mention pour le CFP de Memphrémagog - Éducation - Société - Le Reflet du LacSource: www.lerefletdulac.comEn 2010, le comité s’est attelé à la tâche de traduire de l’anglais au français les instructions apposées sur une trentaine de machines du CFP de même que les consignes de sécurité et les guides d’utilisation. Recherches, traduction, r […]
  • Speaking your language » Education » 24dash.com
    Speaking your language » Education » 24dash.comSource: www.24dash.comA renowned authority on translation and interpreting is to deliver a free public lecture at the University of Leicester on Tuesday 15 March. The University of Leicester’s School of Modern Languages is hosting the inaugural lecture by Professor Kirste... The University of Leicester’s Scho […]
  • Catholic Bible revamped in time for Lent
    Catholic Bible revamped in time for LentSource: www.post-gazette.comLent is a time for renewed Bible study, and this year Catholics have a brand new translation of the Old Testament to encourage them to read. It replaces confusing words such as "booty" and uses more inclusive language than its 41-year-old predecessor.
  • Lionbridge Provides Website Translation for Special Olympics Europe/Eurasia -- WALTHAM, Mass. and DU
    Lionbridge Provides Website Translation for Special Olympics Europe/Eurasia -- WALTHAM, Mass. and DUSource: www.prnewswire.comLionbridge Provides Website Translation for Special Olympics Europe/Eurasia. Lionbridge Website Translation Services to Expand Global Reach of World-Renowned Non-Profit Movement.
  • Brit takes home Turing Award | News | PC Pro
    Brit takes home Turing Award | News | PC ProSource: www.pcpro.co.ukLeslie Valiant's work on machine learning takes home Nobel for computing
  • Spain awards best translators of Russian works
    Spain awards best translators of Russian worksSource: english.ruvr.ruEstablished by the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, the prize is being sought by Nikolai Leskov’s “Enchanted Wanderer” translated by Fernando Otero and Vladimir Sorokin’s “Oprichnik’s Day” translated by Yulia Dobrovoskaya and Jose Maria Munos Rovira.
  • Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: Latin America is back with a boom - Features
    Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: Latin America is back with a boom - FeaturesSource: www.independent.co.ukDuring our hard-fought but well-mannered judging sessions for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, we spend too much time inspecting individual trees ever to spot the shape of the emerging wood. So I left the meeting at which we hammered out the long […]
  • The Sketch Engine, a sophisticated, user-friendly web-based concordancing tool
    The Sketch Engine, a sophisticated, user-friendly web-based concordancing toolSource: www.fi.muni.czUnderlying this presentation is The Sketch Engine, a sophisticated, user-friendly web-based concordancing tool. It can presently be used with corpora in eight languages.
  • translate.eipcp.net
    translate.eipcp.netSource: translate.eipcp.nettranslate. Beyond Culture: The Politics of Translation was a multi-annual research project that aimed at exploring the political articulation of the notion of cultural translation in artistic practices as well as in political social movements through a number of arts and exhibition projects, discurs translate. […]
  • Glossary of Insurance Terms
    Glossary of Insurance TermsSource: www.ambest.comA.M. Best's Glossary of Insurance Terms provides descriptions of insurance terms.
  • CVC. El Trujamán. Profesión. Heridas del lenguaje, por Adan Kovacsics
    CVC. El Trujamán. Profesión. Heridas del lenguaje, por Adan KovacsicsSource: cvc.cervantes.esQuizá la tendencia creciente a que los traductores literarios del futuro elijan este oficio como una opción profesional entre otras, a que estudien directamente traducción literaria en las universidades —lo cual es muy loable—, a que lleguen a este trabajo por la rec […]

  • translate.eipcp.net
    translate.eipcp.netSource: translate.eipcp.nettranslate. Beyond Culture: The Politics of Translation was a multi-annual research project that aimed at exploring the political articulation of the notion of cultural translation in artistic practices as well as in political social movements through a number of arts and exhibition projects, discurs translate. […]
  • Glossary of Insurance Terms
    Glossary of Insurance TermsSource: www.ambest.comA.M. Best's Glossary of Insurance Terms provides descriptions of insurance terms.
  • CVC. El Trujamán. Profesión. Heridas del lenguaje, por Adan Kovacsics
    CVC. El Trujamán. Profesión. Heridas del lenguaje, por Adan KovacsicsSource: cvc.cervantes.esQuizá la tendencia creciente a que los traductores literarios del futuro elijan este oficio como una opción profesional entre otras, a que estudien directamente traducción literaria en las universidades —lo cual es muy loable—, a que lleguen a este trabajo por la rec […]
  • 'Translations of Indian works set to find more readership' - The Times of India
    'Translations of Indian works set to find more readership' - The Times of IndiaSource: timesofindia.indiati...While common Indian readers have been exposed to several works translated from European languages into their own, the interest in translation of Indian works is largely limited to departments of Indology and academic circles in universities […]
  • UNICEF Vacancy Announcement: Communication Officer in Hargeisa | SomalilandPress.com
    UNICEF Vacancy Announcement: Communication Officer in Hargeisa | SomalilandPress.comSource: somalilandpress.comThe following is a job vancy advertised by UNICEF-Somalia for a communication officer in Hargeisa, Somaliland. UNICEF SOMALIA VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT REF:
  • CVC. El Trujamán.
    CVC. El Trujamán.Source: cvc.cervantes.esSección diaria del Centro Virtual Cervantes dedicada la la traducción, con textos de colaboradores del Instituto Cervantes.
  • The IMS Open Corpus Workbench
    The IMS Open Corpus WorkbenchSource: cwb.sourceforge.netThe IMS Open Corpus Workbench (CWB) is a collection of open-source tools for managing and querying large text corpora (ranging from 10 million to 2 billion words) with linguistic annotations. Its central component is the flexible and efficient query processor CQP.
  • Concours de traduction : Et les gagnants sont…
    Concours de traduction : Et les gagnants sont… Source: www.prestashop.comFélicitation à nos gagnants ! Et merci à tous pour votre participation ! Grâce à vous, PrestaShop 1.4 sera disponible dans un maximum de langues ! Parmi les traductions reçues : l’arabe, l’indonésien, le portugais, le roumain, le hongrois… et bien d’autres !
  • Character 'killed' for bargaining for her rights
    Character 'killed' for bargaining for her rightsSource: gulfnews.comLebanese author wages campaign to correct stereotype image that Arab women are oppressed "I killed Scheherazade. I killed her because she used her intelligence and talent to bargain for her rights instead of fighting for what is rightfully hers," Lebanese poet, writer […]
  • WhiteSmoke Launches the All-in-One Writing Solution « The Linguist's Post
    WhiteSmoke Launches the All-in-One Writing Solution « The Linguist's PostSource: wp.meWhiteSmoke has announced their new “hybrid” product, WhiteSmoke 2011, one interface which includes the WhiteSmoke Translator, Writer, Dictionary and Templates to allow for maximum efficiency and ease of use.
  • Mexican Language Academy
    Mexican Language AcademySource: translation-blog.tru...The Mexican Language Academy was founded in 1875. One of its honorary members, the writer Octavo Paz, has obtained, among other awards, the Cervantes Prize
  • The Invisible Translator Strikes Again! « Patenttranslator's Blog
    The Invisible Translator Strikes Again! « Patenttranslator's BlogSource: patenttranslator.wordpress.comThere was an interesting post on the Thoughts On Translation blog recently on the subject of translators’ rates and the compensation potential, followed by an equally interesting discussion among translators from three continents. This mad patent trans […]
  • The Association of Language Companies: EDUCATION: Webinars
    The Association of Language Companies: EDUCATION: WebinarsSource: alcus.orgEnsuring quality is an integral part of the project management processdetermining whether or not a project can be considered a success. But what happens when our client's concept of quality does not coincide with our own approach to quality assessment and management? Do such issu […]
  • Seminar on Industrialization of the Linguistic Sector
    Seminar on Industrialization of the Linguistic SectorSource: translation-blog.trustedtranslations.comIt is a reality that the world is advancing and that new technologies are growing in importance in all areas, including our own: translation and
  • Found in Translation: Honoring Literary Translators
    Found in Translation: Honoring Literary TranslatorsSource: www.huffingtonpost.comI recently received an email from a reader who admonished me for not recognizing just who made it possible for me to read all those wonderful books from around the world: the literary translators.
  • British Centre for Literary Translation | Sebald Lecture 2011 audio
    British Centre for Literary Translation | Sebald Lecture 2011 audioSource: www.bclt.org.ukBritish Centre for Literary Translation. The 2011 Sebald Lecture, given by Ali Smith on 31 January 2011 at Kings Place, London, is now available to listen to on this website. Simply use the audio player below to hear the lecture (duration approximately 65 minutes). […]
  • Medical Translation Schools
    Medical Translation SchoolsSource: www.ehow.comMedical translation, which deals with the translation and interpretation of languages in the medical and health care arena, is becoming a sought-after skill and career in the...
  • Marrying a foreign citizen
    Marrying a foreign citizenSource: www.geminitranslatio...Thst nice bunch at TLC UK have let us post some more stuff about what they do on our blog to help people looking for information:
  • Translation Tribulations: Cheap translation, like coffee
    Translation Tribulations: Cheap translation, like coffeeSource: www.translationtribu...An exploration of translation technologies, marketing strategies, workflow optimization, resource reviews, controversies and other topics of interest to translators, language service providers and language service consumers.
  • Survey Says Mixed Race Is Most Beautiful
    Survey Says Mixed Race Is Most BeautifulSource: www.cafemom.comSurvey Says Mixed Race Is Most BeautifulBy Alyson Mance on Mar 9th 2011 3:29PM It seems the standards of American beauty ha Among the stats, 64% of those surveyed think that women of mixed race represent the epitome of beauty, 70% of those who wish to change their skin color wanted it to be da […]