Metaglossia: The Translation World

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Para los occidentales África vive de la ayuda humanitaria, cuando ya exporta tecnología, asegura Erik Hersman. Este bloguero y emprendedor estadounidense creció a caballo entre Sudán y Kenia, país donde se siente más cómodo que en ningún otro lado.

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A la gente le sorprende, dice Hersman, "que haya tecnología africana que triunfe en el mundo, porque no se lo espera. Aunque sea de forma incipiente ya está ocurriendo". A través del sistema de pagos por móvil Mpesa de Safaricom, filial de Vodafone, por ejemplo, "se han realizado más de 8.000 millones de transacciones financieras". Craft Silicon "exporta desde Kenia sus sistemas bancarios a más de 40 países, europeos y asiáticos principalmente, con los que hace bastante dinero". Sin olvidar el chat móvil Mxit que, dice, tiene tres veces más abonados en Sudáfrica que la red social Facebook y "unos 25 millones de clientes a nivel mundial".

Ushahidi (testimonio o testigo en suahili) es su propia aportación al cambio. Esta plataforma de código abierto fue creada durante la crisis electoral de Kenia en 2008 para que los ciudadanos informasen en tiempo real de los acontecimientos. Ushahidi recogía la información a través de mensajes sms y correos electrónicos. Datos que automáticamente se visualizaban en un mapa y mostraban la evolución de la crisis en tiempo real. De Kenia saltó al resto del mundo: actualmente hay más de 200.000 desarrollos basados en esta plataforma de mapeo en 132 países.....

A gota de hoje tenta ressuscitar um tempo simples: o futuro do presente.

Depois que o analfabetismo funcional tomou conta do mercado de trabalho, começaram (e não as pessoas começaram, como vimos na gota passada) a inventar cursos de extensão, de especialização, pós-graduações lato sensu, mestrados, doutorados, pós-doutorados, pós-pós-pós doutorados, mas ninguém se propôs atacar a raiz do problema.

Nos dias 12 e 13 de novembro, aconteceu a III Conferência Brasileira de Tradutores do ProZ.com, aqui no Rio de Janeiro. Foi um final de semana diferente para todos os participantes. Logo no primeiro dia, tivemos uma dinâmica de grupo patrocinada pela GALA (Globalization and Localization Association). Nosso Diretor, Fabiano Cid, recentemente eleito Membro do Conselho da GALA, organizou a sessão de networking, que não só fez todo mundo relaxar mas, principalmente, permitiu que as pessoas se conhecessem melhor para os dois dias que viriam pela frente

Twitter has announced the first sweeping rethink of its design in the five years of the microblogging service as it seeks to become less confusing to new users and ramp up its global growth.

"La lengua española es una poderosa impulsora de intercambios comerciales entre países hispanohablantes", aseguró el profesor José Luis García Delgado, uno de los autores del informe "El valor económico del español".

  Ao contrário do senso comum, o melhor professor de idiomas não é o nativo, mas aquele que fala também a mesma língua do aluno. A vantagem desse profissional está na capacidade de interpretar signif...

For use in your classes, or for learning basic vocabulary for specific situations, this dialogue provides the basics for buying something in a shop in English.

Take an in-depth look into the translations quoting process from the language experts at Trusted Translations. Whether you are new to the translation industr...

Seeking an experienced production editor who will be responsible for working on a variety of trade fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and graphic novel titles from manuscript to bound book while maintaining FSG’s high standards of quality on tight deadlines. Must have excellent grammar, copyediting, and proofreading skills.

Plunet introduces an expanded dynamic interface to memoQ server 5.0, which means Plunet will feature the most far-reaching integration of a business and translation management system with memoQ. The Plunet memoQManager interface allows project managers to easily create, control and handle entire memoQ translation projects within Plunet. The interface is impressive thanks to its workflow flexibility and user-friendly automation of various processes. The synchronization of both systems saves the project manager valuable time switching between Plunet and memoQ and ensures that all of the information and files that are relevant to the project are always available.

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It is never appropriate to submit unreviewed, unrevised machine translation output to a client as a finished translation.

(This is an actual highlighted quote from an article called “Questions and Answers about Machine Translation” published in the November/December 2011 issue of the ATA Chronicle).

There was an interesting article in today’s Washington Post by Paul Farhi about the fact that despite a law against it, “stealth commercials frequently masquerade as TV news”. The newspaper used the example of Alison Rhodes who “is one of a small army of hosts and reviewers” of products offering to Fox viewers advice on what to buy. According to the article, Rhodes sees no issue in accepting payment for her recommendation because “her enthusiasm is genuine”.

After the recent LIP discussion about languages in the popular media we decided to take a look at the way indigenous and endangered languages are represented in the press. Looking through the articles listed on the Languages in the News page on RNLD’s website (www.rnld.org/news) we focused on how Indigenous languages are represented, and what kind of themes, languages, and locations gain media attention. This will be useful in planning how we can better use the media in the future. Here is an overview of the Languages in the News 2011.

So far this year the Languages in the News page on RNLD’s website has listed 567 online articles about endangered languages and related topics. Sources range from the New York Times to the Pilbara Echo, from the Vancouver Sun to the Taipei Times, with languages from all over the globe represented.

A U.S. citizen has been sentenced to two and a half years in a Thai prison after translating a banned biography of the country's King online.

Writing novella is a long process. Once a square of work has been written, it is still nowhere nearby ready for publication.

A group dedicated to maintaining the German language's purity is upset that a dictionary maker's “Youth Word of the Year” is derived from English. Does German deserve a little more respect - or even need protection?

A U.S. citizen will serve two and a half years in a Thai prison for translating an unauthorized biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and posting it on a website, according to a court ruling.

Translating the Latin homo as “man” and homines as “men” is wrong on all counts. First, it fails the test of formal equivalence. Latin and Greek each have nouns meaning “adult male” or “man” (vir / anēr) and other nouns meaning “human being” (homo / anthrōpos), the latter of which were in the 4th-century creeds. It’s even likely that “human” is etymologically Latinate (related to homo, -inis), while “man” is Germanic in origin. By its own rules and tendencies, then, the translation team should have acted differently. Second, it fails the test of functional equivalence, which my classroom lesson demonstrates. But there are myriad other ways to prove this. Who goes to the “Men’s Breakfast Bible Study” at your church? Who goes to the “Men’s Room” after Mass?

The prosecution in the assets case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday charged her close aide and co-accused Sasikala Natarajan with trying to delay the trial after she filed an application in the special court raising questions concerning the translation process.

Special Public Prosecutor B V Aacharya opposed the interlocutory application filed by the counsel of Ms. Sasikala, who was scheduled to be questioned by Special judge B M Mallikarjunaiah today.

A court in Thailand sentenced a US citizen to two and a half years in prison today for defaming the country's royal family, by translating excerpts of a locally banned biography of the king and posting them online.

The verdict is the latest so-called lese majeste punishment handed down in the South-east Asian kingdom, which has come under increasing pressure at home and abroad to reform harsh legislation that critics say is an affront to freedom of expression..

Le Plan sur les langues officielles 2011-2013 «Le bilinguisme officiel - Une force», lancé jeudi dernier, a pour objectif de mesurer les progrès, améliorer les services et préparer la prochaine évaluation et révision de la Loi sur les langues...

TAUS, an innovation think tank and interoperability watchdog for the translation industry, announces the official launch of TAUS Tracker - TAUSTracker.com / TranslationAutomation.com...

Gordon, nacido en Estados Unidos pero de origen tailandés también conocido como Lerpong Wichaikammat, fue encarcelado por publicar partes de la traducción tailandesa de una biografía no autorizada del rey Bhumibol Adulyadej.

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