Metaglossia: The Translation World

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How well do you know your terminology.  This exam will provide you with random questions from a glossary of theological terms.

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Skilled readers do not have to sound out words every time they see them, a new study indicates.

Instead, once they know a word, they can access a "visual dictionary" in their brains to recognize it every time they see it, said researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center. They suggested these findings could provide new insight into certain reading disorders.

"One camp of neuroscientists believes that we access both the phonology and the visual perception of a word as we read them and that the area or areas of the brain that do one also do the other, but our study proves this isn't the case," lead investigator Laurie Glezer, a postdoctoral research fellow, said in a medical center news release.

Look out, Google Translate. Microsoft is coming up with an alternative translation tool of its own.

At the recent eLEX 2011 conference in Slovenia (for earlier posts, see here and here), the discussion focussed on the future of dictionaries – or, more...

El hallazgo de que existe un ‘diccionario visual’ en nuestro cerebro al que se acude al leer para poder realizar esta tarea con más velocidad ha aparecido en la reunión anual de la Society for Neuroscience de este año. Al leer, basta un rápido vistazo a una palabra para que nuestro cerebro sea capaz de codificarla fonética y visualmente eliminando la necesidad de que haya una realización sonora. Así, en el estudio, se asegura que una vez que se ha aprendido una palabra, ésta se coloca en este diccionario visual para permitir, en el futuro, reconocerla rápida y eficazmente con menor gasto de energía. Laurie Glezer, investigadora principal del estudio que trabaja en el Laboratorio para la Neurociencia Computacional Cognitiva de la GUMC, lo explica de este modo:.......

Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus: Lesson Plans - How can students use Latin anatomy terms to help them understand the roots and meanings of some contemporary English vocabulary words?

El espacio Música antigua, de Sergio Pagán, dedicará su programa de este viernes a las 11.00 horas a la conmemoración del IV Centenario de la edición de El tesoro...

EXPOSITION - «Gaulois, une expo renversante», à la Cité des Sciences, à Paris, confronte des clichés sur les Gaulois aux réalités archéologiques...

My new pet project Global Glossary (which I have introduced in a previous blog post) has been going from strength to strength for some time and has been acquiring new features gradually. So I thoug...

Here is a fascinating article about word sense disambiguation, and the challenges of computer based translations.

In computational linguistics, word sense disambiguation (WSD) is the process ...

A linguistics professor based in Britain compiles the first dictionary of four endangered tribal languages used in the Andaman Islands.

On a reçu le fameux Dictionnaire déglingué de Sonia Rykiel, et inutile de vous préciser que nous ne savions pas du tout à quoi nous attendre.

A racially-charged word with many meanings may be at the root of a dispute between two sports rivals that reaches far beyond the football field, analysts say.

Si la principal preocupación de los españoles es el paro, no resulta difícil suponer por qué Mariano Rajoy utilizó hasta 40 veces la palabra empleo durante el debate electoral del pasado 7 de noviembre.

Earlier this month, the language of the pension and labor debates became a bit clearer, as the Institute for Local Government published its Guides to Pension and Labor Terminology. The two resources seek to disambiguate the language that surrounds the ongoing conversation of pensions and labor.

Despite all the public uproar that continues to consume much of public discourse, most of the terminology remains foreign to the masses.

Aprendemas.com - El cerebro almacena las palabras que lee por primera vez a modo de un diccionario, lo que facilita que la persona pueda reconocerlas de forma más rápida y eficiente al volverlas a leer haciendo uso de ese diccionario visual en el...

Philology, etymology, and word origins – Discover new word, their origins and definitions – Have you ever pondered the meaning or history of a word? Use Hot Words to learn the secrets of words, and how they came to be.

Much confusion is caused when individuals choose to use the word black to identify those of African heritage. What is the difference between the word black and a person who is African-American?

Una obra de gran amplitud geográfica y temporal, compendio de la cultura cinematográfica de 22 países
El acto ha contado con la colaboración de la Academia del Cine Catalán, la Academia de las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España, Guionistas Asociados de Catalunya (CAG) y el Colegio de Directores de Cine de Catalunya

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