The whole truth about translations and translators
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(or how to find the right translators) We all know that translations are performed by translators. The question is how you select the “right” translators whom you trust when conveying a text submitted to the agency by a client?! Most translation agencies are established by linguists who know at least one foreign language and have been working as...
THE REAL ARYANS - I
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By Pavel Serafimov Human imagination could be relatively easily succumbed to manipulations. Those who know the way our mind works are able to persuade us in believing many things. Sometimes we believe in not what is most logical but in what we hear most often. When alternative information lacks, it becomes the only truth for us. A hard and intrusive...
Love to laugh
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Because of the heavy snow this morning, drivers were asked to restrain from driving. For some reason only the snow-plough drivers took this advice…
The truth about translations and translators
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It is not easy to assess the services of a translation company. The easy part is to estimate the servicing, i.e. the politeness of the manager, the efficiency of the answers to your inquiry, the detailed report on the text submitted for translation and etc. What is more difficult is how to assess the product itself because to do so, one has to perfectly...
Six great reasons for studying English language
Posted on 2010-02-05 03:54:50
Offered to you by David Crystal in the Preface of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of English language
Because it is fascinating
It is remarkable how often the language turns up as a topic of interest in daily conversation – whether it is a question about accents and dialects,
New EU Language Regulations For Pharmaceutical And Medical Device Manufactures
Posted on 2009-10-16 04:29:54
Latest EU regulations demand that all packaging and instruction leaflets for pharmaceutical products and medical devices are translated into the official language of the country they are being exported to.
Top 10 Internet Languages
Posted on 2009-10-19 03:00:33
The latest data from Internet World Stats reveals that Italian has been knocked out of the Top 10 internet languages and replaced with Korean. English remains the most popular language of the Internet at 29% of all web content, with Chinese firmly in second place at 20%. But English has fallen significantly from its position in 2000, when it accounted...
The Translator As Professional And Craftsman - Part V (final)
Posted on 2009-10-14 06:24:36
In this final section, we turn to smaller-scale strategies that come into play as we work our way through a particular translation job. First, though, we would like to provide some context by reiterating the basic model of the translating process which we outlined in Section 2.
The Translator As Professional And Craftsman - Part IV
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By ‘presupposition’ we don’t mean the conventions we make with ourselves or others about reality (“assuming X is true, let us explore doing Y”) but the hidden assumptions we make at work or in life which we mistake for solid fact. As in the case of exploiting frames of reference, the emphasis is on awareness of what we are doing.
The Translator As Professional And Craftsman - Part III
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The first section described how our perceived identity as translators can influence our performance. This section deals with some of the ways we can and do create mental frameworks that structure our way of translating, and some of the consequences these frameworks can have.
The Translator As Professional And Craftsman - Part II
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We are ready to submit to your attention the second part of yesterday’s article about The Hidden Life of Translators, by B. Fraser and H.T.Beeth.
The Translator As Professional And Craftsman
Posted on 2009-10-06 05:19:41
Today we would like to share with you extracts from an article written by B. Fraser and H.T. Beeth in 1999 under the title “The Hidden Life of Translators”.
