Been busy? I’ve curated a number of interesting articles about language and translation that have been published on the internet this month and that you may have missed.
- This handy little tool lets you translate any English word into its equivalents all over Europe.
‘Translator’ all over Europe
- Do you ever wonder how to pronounce deliberately off-putting British place names? This article on BBC America gives some tips. It was a follow-up to a list of American place names that are not pronounced the way they are spelled.
- Katy Derbyshire, who translates Contemporary German fiction, exploits the translator’s mind palace at Words Without Borders.
- According to this survey e-mail marketing is 40 times more effective than Facebook and Twitter.
- Challenges: noted Russian translators talk to the Russia & India Report about misunderstandings, cultural differences and how not to get lost in translation.
- January 8th was National Word Nerd Day in the USA. You might already know if you’re a word nerd, but if in doubt here are 15 signs.
- Do you know the hardest word in translation? Iwan Davies writes about it in the ITI’s new blog The Pillar Box.
- Roman Mironov tells us how to improve translation quality by optimising segmentation.
- UK court interpreting firm Capita has been fined thousands of pounds for its poor performance.
- Here are some Italian loan words that we use in English that have a totally different meaning in Italian.
- Conference interpreter Elisabet Tulkur gives advice about introducing oneself as an interpreter.
En français :
- Etes-vous d’accord ? 11 mots qui nous manquent en français. (Pourquoi 11 ? Parce que c’est le nombre de lettres dans “pochemuchka” un mot russe désignant une personne qui pose trop de questions.)
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- Dans une lettre ouverte au Nouvel Observateur, la SFT apporte des compléments d’information à l’article de Jacques Drillon Grandeur et misère des traducteurs apparu dans Le Nouvel Observateur du 9 janvier 2014.
- Est-ce que le niveau d’anglais en France est aussi catastrophique que l’on veut nous faire croire ?
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