Translators and Translation

I gave them a piece of my mind in the "additional comments" section. I blame Facebook for starting this trend. - Shannon Jiménez

I can't believe facebook did that too, and proz.com! - Dallas Cao

The ATA responds in a press release: http://atanet.org/pressro... - Shannon Jiménez

"Usarufa is a language of Papua New Guinea with just 1200 speakers (ISO-639 code "usa"). There's no fluent speakers under the age of 25, so the language must be considered moribund....I played them a recording of the "last words" of the Jiwarli language of Western Australia. After some questioning looks I explained that this language is now dead, and we were listening to its last speaker before he died. As one they all looked down, shaking their heads in disbelief and saying sorry, sorry, sorry…. It was as if I told them a mutual friend had died. They urged me to put that recording on a cassette tape so they could take it back to their village. That way, everyone would surely understand what will happen to the Usarufa language unless there are serious attempts to revitalize it." - Shannon Jiménez via Bookmarklet

Useful for reading comments and posts in other languages. - Shannon Jiménez via Bookmarklet

"For a long time, the idea that language might shape thought was considered at best untestable and more often simply wrong. Research in my labs at Stanford University and at MIT has helped reopen this question. We have collected data around the world: from China, Greece, Chile, Indonesia, Russia, and Aboriginal Australia. What we have learned is that people who speak different languages do indeed think differently and that even flukes of grammar can profoundly affect how we see the world." - Shannon Jiménez

""When quality and price don't matter"" - Shannon Jiménez via Bookmarklet

Good analysis of LinkedIn's idiotic move yesterday. - Shannon Jiménez via Bookmarklet

You can try ProZ.com's KudoZ Platform for term questions in almost all language pairs. http://www.proz.com/ - Çağdaş Karataş

flujo de video me parece, aunque es difícil pensar una traducción cuando casi en todos lados se retoma el término en inglés. Buena suerte - Matias

Thanks for the help and the links. :) I didn't have the time to come here before, very sorry for thanking so late. Matias, me temo que ese termino ingles se va a adoptar en español, es muy dificil de traducir y suelo encontrar terminos españoles para casi todo, Pero ese no soy capaz. :( Gracias por la ayuda. - Cibeles

beautiful! - Shawn Khorassani

I thought I'd reshare this here so Mark could get more international participation. - Shannon Jiménez

If you click through you can add yourself to the map. - Shannon Jiménez

I'll start. I translate Spanish > English and specialize in science (mostly biology). - Shannon Jiménez

English to Turkish - Murat Bişkin

Excellent entries by John Wells, explaining things in a way that would be interesting for professionals and meaningful for laymen at the same time. - Language

Interesting blog-- thanks! I added it to my feed reader. - Shannon Jiménez

"A “time traveller’s phrasebook” that could allow basic communication between modern English speakers and Stone Age cavemen is being compiled by scientists studying the evolution of language. Research has identified a handful of modern words that have changed so little in tens of thousands of years that ancient hunter-gatherers would probably have been able to understand them. Anybody who was catapulted back in time to Ice Age Europe would stand a good chance of being intelligible to the locals by using words such as “I”, “who” and “thou” and the numbers “two”, “three” and “five”, the work suggests. More nuanced conversation would be more of a challenge. The analysis of language evolution suggests that none of the adjectives, verbs and nouns used in modern languages would have much in common with those used then." - Cibeles via Bookmarklet

"Every day, Chinese fans produce unauthorized translations of Western pop culture products and put them online, like subtitled episodes of “Heroes” or the final Harry Potter novel. But a group calling itself the Eco Team has picked a more cerebral target: the British newsweekly The Economist.With each new issue, the group’s members work together to sharpen their language skills by translating the magazine from cover to cover." - Cibeles via Bookmarklet

"When an English speaker doesn't understand a word one says, it's "Greek to me". When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it "sounds like Chinese". I've been told the Korean equivalent is "sounds like Hebrew"....And here's (some of) the information in the Wikipedia and Omniglot tables, presented as a directed graph courtesy of graphviz:" - Shannon Jiménez

A Turkish speaker says "I'm feeling French." Wonder where that comes from.. - elif durmaz

"I do agree with the main point I think she was trying to make: that America should publish more books in translation. I agree that books in languages of small diffusion (and I would add from countries that aren’t in the G8) face particularly steep challenges before being published in the U.S. I agree that it’s a shame that Americans are shielded from any unnecessary non-English interference in their daily lives. I agree that the Bible feels different in different languages. And I agree that books do occasionally change the course of history." - Shannon Jiménez

"That said, it’s a big pet peeve of mine when people claim that Americans have no culture (I find Europeans are the worst about this). And Kushner pushes just about every peeve button I can think of. By the end of the article, I felt like slapping some sense into her (well, not really)." - Shannon Jiménez

"Google is working on a new service called Google Translation Center. Just a short while ago, we noticed that “center” had been added to Google’s robots.txt file, and now co-editor Tony Ruscoe discovered the link to the working frontpage... though logging in fails right now. According to the Google explanations on the frontpage and their product overview page, we can see this is meant to be a translation service which offers both volunteers and professional translators... and I suppose at least the professionals will want to get paid. In that regards, the service is in the field of sites like Click2Translate.com (a service by the company which Tony works for, incidentally, and which I’m often using for some of my sites)." - Shannon Jiménez via Bookmarklet

There is also an idea of so called human human flesh translation engine, represented by yeeyan, where a sloppy piece of translation could be improved by editing work from numerous readers afterwards. Does this engine post a threat too? - Dallas Cao

Future languages will include Italian, Farsi, and Turkish - Shannon Jiménez

Ok. I'll let Jordi know! - Matthew Bennett

Since English is my second language, I cannot be sure, but it seems to me that they have different connotations especially when they appear in emails. - Ryoko Omachi

Yes, it means as soon as possible. But that can mean different amounts of time to different people! - Shannon Jiménez

Obama's winning speech is translated into Beijing Opera lyrics. - Dallas Cao via Bookmarklet

Learning to speak, read and write a language fluently is possible, on your own, in about one year and without much expenses. However, you must do it right or lose your time. Some basic principles are fundamental if you want to do useful work. - Language