Metaglossia: The Translation World

Google's 'Currents' enters digital magazine battle unfolding on smartphones, computer tablets...

Besides the web page into which users can simply paste text for translation, Google Translate also provides an interface (API) which can be used by CAT tools to access the service. As of December 2011, Google has required payment from users for use of this service. This HowTo describes how to configure the function in OmegaT.

Translation Studies is challenged by Translation practitioners because of its alleged irrelevance and ineffectiveness. While it is difficult to quantify its ‘scientific’ contribution, it offers a non-negligible amount of research into relevant topics and has definitely influenced Translator training. Moreover, as an academic activity, it offers a social contribution to the Translators’ community by helping it raise its status and by facilitating the exchange of experience and information, all of this at a low cost for society.

Online Biology Dictionary – A concise dictionary of biology and medicine — More than 5,000 cross-linked terms defined. Includes pronunciations.

Luis von Ahn saiu da Guatemala aos Estados Unidos com a intenção de estudar matemática, mas acabou revolucionando a informática com alguns de seus projetos. O mais recente deles, o Duolingo, pretende ...

Um Tribunal da Tailândia condenou um cidadão norte-americano a uma pena de dois anos e meio de de prisão, por difamar o líder da família real, o Rei Bhumibol Adulyadej.

BANGKOK -- An American who translated and posted a banned biography of Thailand's king online is going to prison. Thursday, December 8, 2011.

Thomas Wolfe fue contemporáneo de Faulkner, Scott Fitzgerald (con el que sostuvo una agria discusión epistolar a propósito de dicho libro). Y fue faro también para los grandes nombres de la generación beat. Ahora el lector puede tener acceso a una 'nouvelle' titulada 'El niño perdido' en una excelente traducción.
'El niño perdido' es una historia autobiográfica. Nada de lo que acontece tiene que ver con la imaginación. Pero sí tiene que ver con la escritura y la fuerza de alguien que se sintió llamado a escribir la siempre anhelada, por todos los novelistas de los EE UU, Gran Novela Americana. Esta pequeña gran novela se divide en cuatro partes.

El Consejo de Gobierno aprobó el miércoles el decreto que autoriza a la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) a impartir el título de máster Universitario en Traducción Profesional y Mediación Intercultural.

CHRISTOPHER Logue, a poet of dazzling skill and dramatic bite, who was also through his piecemeal versions of Homer the greatest poetic translator of the postwar period, has died in London. He was 85.
Born in Portsmouth to middle-aged parents, his voice for all its actorishness retained a piratical edge. He was educated, for a while, at the local Catholic college, St Johns, Southsea, and found himself in the latter part of World War II in the Black Watch regiment, where he lost an eye in an accident.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/poetic-translator-a-rare-talent-who-shone-like-the-sun-20111208-1oljl.html#ixzz1g87CRSPq

TOYOTA: The Uruguayan coach of Asian champions Al Sadd said yesterday that he had no problem getting his message across to his men after a press conference held in Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Spanish.

"I don't want an interpreter (in the changing room)," he said, switching back to his first language, Spanish.

"The players understand my English, although some can't. But football is a common language.

"I don't want an interpreter because he might not correctly translate what I'm saying or won't understand the language of football."

Read more: Al Sadd lost in translation? - Soccer - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/sports/soccer/al-sadd-lost-in-translation-1.16971#ixzz1g85oDvEZ

Is your digital marketing future multilingual?

If it's not, it should be. You might be interested to know that over half of all Google searches are made in a language other than English, and the fact is this: English is just not the lingua franca of the web anymore.

And don't just take my word for it, foreign languages online have experienced a huge surge -- between 2000 and 2008, Arabic alone grew a whopping 2,064 percent. In comparison, English usage grew by just 204 percent.

The government’s challenge—
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) of the U.S.

Anna Bikont is the recipient of the 2011 European Book Prize in the ‘Non-Fiction Category’.

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It took Anna Bikont four years to complete the book, which is the result of painstaking archival research as well as many hours of conversations with perpetrators of the murder, eye-witnesses and surviving Jedwabne residents.
The book had its first Polish edition in 2004. An English translation is planned.

Vacancy Code UNOPS/2011/AFO/KEOC/PRJ/040

Post Title Interpreter

Post Level International ICA 1 (Individual Contractor Agreement) Org Unit Kenya Operations Center

Duty Station Port Louis, Mauritius and Victoria, Seychelles

Duration
1 Year with possible extension as project workload may demand.

Closing Date 16th December 2011

There are nine SALA categories nurturing various disciplines in writing. These prestigious Awards have recognised South Africa’s great literary talent and encourages emerging new authors in all our official languages.

The Nine SALA categories are:

The Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award for Writing in African Languages in South Africa
The Sello K. Duiker memorial Literary Award
Literary Journalism Award
Literary Translators Award
Posthumous Literary Award
Lifetime Achievement Literary Award
Poetry Award
First-time Published Author Award and
Chairperson’s Award

Swahili is spoken by more than 60 million people (5 million people speak it as their mother tongue) and is the most widely known language in Africa after Arabic. It is used as a vehicular language in much of East Africa and is the official language of five nations: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, the Comoros, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Even though the language is spoken in Burundi and Rwanda, it is only used in major city centers and is not widely present in the countryside.

A mix of Hindi, English and Zulu is becoming popular among Indians in Durban. Chetan Chauhan reports.

El Diccionario de la Lengua Española (DRAE) por primera vez en un 'ereader' - Fundación del Español Urgente...

Gmail has caught the Circles bug and sees further integration with Google Plus.

And, no, google, as usual, this post isn't going to be as interesting as you think it's going to be.
Dear Independent Clause,

In light of today's post, I was wondering whether there are any pag...

Clients of the Lexington Vocational Services Center for the Deaf who are seeking to hone their skills in customer relations and build work experience have been recruited to provide free gift wrapping services for Barnes & Noble customers. In exchange, they will have the opportunity to raise funds to benefit services for deaf workers.

With the assistance of a job coach and American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter provided by Lexington, two deaf volunteer workers will help Barnes & Noble Booksellers, located in the Bay Terrace Shopping Center on Bell Boulevard in Bayside, to provide free gift wrapping on Wednesday, December 7 and Wednesday, December 14 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Although there is no charge for this service, donations to help support Lexington’s vocational programs will be appreciated.

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Most of us already have simple transliteration and syntax checking abilities built into our concept processors. Nonetheless, if you’re searching for additional accuracy and range of proofreading and editing you may want to check into getting a further application that inspections your Language. You may well be questioning what these applications supply and if they are really the good value. This easy summary outlines and assesses a number of the methods proposed by these plans

The Korea Times awarded prizes to winners of its 42nd Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards at a ceremony held at Seoul Plaza Hotel, Wednesday.

Attending the awards ceremony were, among others, President-Publisher Park Moo-jong of the Korea Times, Park Je-yeong, chief operating officer of the Korea Exchange Bank, which sponsors the annual translation contest, and judges including Brother Anthony.

Grand Prize winner Jung Ye-won, who translated Jung Young-moon’s “A Way of Remembrance,” and Charse Yun and Koh Hyo-jin, winners of the commendation awards for their respective translations of Kim Hoon’s “Rivers and Mountains Without End” attended the ceremony. Patricia Park who also won the commendation award for translating Yoon Sung-hee’s “Hole” however was absent as she is currently in the United States.

Language software startup Ultralingua launched their Apps for Aid program this week, making it possible for non-profit organizations to receive donations of Ultralingua’s complete and reliable language reference and translation tools.

Learn more here: http://www.ultralingua.com/apps-for-aid