Language panel meets to discuss critical issues (Saipan Tribune) 9 Jan 2009 at 9:09am Members of the Chamorro/Carolinian Language Policy Commission board will be holding their second organizational meeting today to discuss important issues, including the creation of working committees.
Italian-Language Classes (Caltech Today) 9 Jan 2009 at 3:14am This winter, the Caltech Italian Club is offering Italian-language classes for Caltech community members and the public. A 16-class series, offered at three levels, will begin in January and continue for eight weeks. Details on the schedule will be announced soon. If you are interested in taking the course, please complete the survey here as soon as possible. (These classes are not official ...
Language immersion informational meetings (Hopkins Sun-Sailor) 9 Jan 2009 at 1:52am The Minnetonka School District is hosting informational meetings about its Chinese and Spanish language immersion programs for 2009 kindergartners. 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 12 at Minnewashta Elementary, 26350 Smithtown Road, Excelsior.
Microsoft trains next-gen coders with XNA's Kodu - Ars Technica 9 Jan 2009 at 12:19am DestructoidMicrosoft trains next-gen coders with XNA's KoduArs Technica, MA - 10 hours agoIt's essentially a tertiary programming language laid atop XNA and the Xbox 360's assembly. The language of Kodu takes a principally semantic form, ...Microsoft's Kodu Brings Video Game Development to Beginners eWeekCould Kodu be Xbox 360's Little Big Planet? MLive.comXbox 360 Game Creator Kodu Coming This Spring Shacknewsall 33 news articles
In Any Language, A Boon For City - Harrisonburg Daily News Record 9 Jan 2009 at 12:06am In Any Language, A Boon For CityHarrisonburg Daily News Record, VA - 10 hours agoTHE ANNOUNCEMENT EARLIER this week that language learning company Rosetta Stone wants to buy the former home of the Harrisonburg Police Department on South ...Rosetta Stone Proposal WHSVall 2 news articles
On American campuses, Esperanto is an extracurricular language - The Phoenix 8 Jan 2009 at 8:10pm The PhoenixOn American campuses, Esperanto is an extracurricular languageThe Phoenix, MA - 14 hours agoBy EVA WOLCHOVER | January 8, 2009 When Professor Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof created the language called Esperanto in late-19th-century Poland, he envisioned ...
The Power of the R Programming Language (Slashdot) 8 Jan 2009 at 6:38pm BartlebyScrivener writes "The New York Times has an article on the R programming language. The Times describes it as: "a popular programming language used by a growing number of data analysts inside corporations and academia. It is becoming their lingua franca partly because data mining has entered a golden age, whether being used to set ad prices, find new drugs more quickly or fine-tune ...
BBC to launch Farsi language television - AFP 8 Jan 2009 at 5:11pm Daily MailBBC to launch Farsi language televisionAFP - 17 hours agoLONDON (AFP) ? The BBC is to launch a Farsi-language television service in Iran and Afghanistan from next week, it announced Thursday, less than a year ...BBC to launch Persian-language TV channel The Associated PressBBC Persian channel to launch mid-month Broadcastnow'You decide how safe if it is,' BBC tells viewers of new Persian ... guardian.co.ukVariety - Digital Spyall 90 news articles
BBC to broadcast Persian-language TV (International Herald Tribune) 8 Jan 2009 at 2:30pm The BBC said Thursday it will start a Persian-language TV channel next week that can be seen in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and elsewhere, despite Iranian claims that it will be used to recruit spies.
BBC to launch Farsi language television (AFP via Yahoo! News) 8 Jan 2009 at 12:52pm The BBC is to launch a Farsi-language television service in Iran and Afghanistan from next week, it announced Thursday, less than a year after it launched its Arabic TV channel.
Proposed House Rules Include Gender Neutral Language Provisions - Ms. Magazine 8 Jan 2009 at 12:38pm Proposed House Rules Include Gender Neutral Language ProvisionsMs. Magazine, CA - 21 hours agoSpeaker Nancy Pelosi introduced legislation this week in the House that would, among other provisions, make the chamber?s official language gender neutral. ...
BBC to launch Persian-language TV channel (AP via Yahoo! News) 8 Jan 2009 at 11:04am The BBC said Thursday it will launch a Persian-language TV channel next week that can be seen in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and elsewhere, despite Iranian claims that it will be used to recruit spies.
What Makes a Translator?
The “prison of language is only temporary…someday a merciful guard – the perfect translator – will come along with his keys and let us out,” Wendy Lesser wrote in an article, “The Mysteries of Translation,” in the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2002. The following questions remain, however: Who is this translator? What does he do? And what skills should he possess?
Simply put, a translator is a person who recreates a text in another language, attempting to keep a delicate balance between being so literal that the text sounds awkward and unnatural in the new language or being so free that the text has become virtually unrecognizable. A translator has to not only translate the words, but also the concepts. In other words, a translator unlocks the prison of language, as Ms. Lesser said, and helps a text break free of its limited original language, culture, and audience. This service is an unfortunately under-appreciated art and craft.
To do all the above, a translator must have the following things: a native or near-native level of proficiency in both the source language (the language to be translated from) and the target language (the language to be translated to); the ability to thoroughly understand all that a text says and implies; and excellent writing and editing skills. Ideally, the translator would also have a lot of knowledge about both the source and target language cultures, as this affects word usage and meaning, as well as
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