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Börsen

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:50:17 GMT

clipped by: Crassenstein
clipper's remarks: fidusinterpres.com ist meta- multiple sc site

Finally, get registered with the American Translators Assn., and sign up for projects at online translation boards such a www.ProZ.com, www.elance.com, www.TranslationDirectory.com, and www.translatorscafe.com, Evens says. Keep in touch with the industry by reading language translation magazines such as www.multilingual.com and www.translations-news.com.

Tags: übersetzerbörsen

Jajah Babel - Free Over The Phone Translation Service

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:54:16 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: Say it English, hear it in Mandarin! More languages coming.

Clip Source: www.jajahbabel.com

Going to China but don’t speak Mandarin? Worried that a visit to the great wall will become a language barrier?

JAJAH Babel takes the hard work out of traveling in China with real time translations. Speak in English and say it in Mandarin from any phone.

Dial this number from any phone
+1-718-513-2969
It's FREE!

Speak into the phone.
For example:
"Please take me to my hotel on
Broadway Boulevard."

Simply hand your phone to the other person who will hear it in Chinese.

Huh of the LOLcats

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:35:15 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead

Clip Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com

When you LOL at silly pictures of cats with even sillier captions, Ben Huh laughs all the way to the bank.

Huh, a Seattle entrepreneur, has built a mini-empire on the unique brand of humor illustrated by the "LOLcats" craze: photos with captions punctuated by deliberately misspelled words and mangled phrases.

His network of eight Web sites, which includes I Can Has Cheezburger and I Can Has a Hot Dog, attracts 5 million users and 100 million page views a month.

Since buying I Can Has Cheezburger, Huh has added companion sites devoted to dogs, politics and really bad translations of English, among others. A fan favorite is Fail Blog, in which people take joy in others' mishaps.

When the company posts job openings, it receives a flood of résumés. The subject line of one cover letter read: "I can haz dream Job? My rezumez! Let me showz u thm."

"We want to make people happy for five minutes a day," he said.

"LOLcats is a language that is going to continue to get bigger and bigger,"

Tags: cats, lolcats, animals, business, internet, humor

Lesson plans for teachers on global concerns

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:18:01 GMT

clipped by: harley7
clipper's remarks: Covers economic, political, social and environmental concerns - and has translations

Clip Source: www.globalization101.org

寻找翻译工作

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:48:15 GMT

clipped by: michaelchina
clipper's remarks: 在互联网的世界里，自由翻译只要有技术和能力，不愁接不到工作。看到这我感到自己走的这条路选对了。广阔的天地任我遨游。o(∩_∩)o...哈哈！

Clip Source: bbfish.blogbus.com

翻译公司和终端客户日益重视相关专业知识，所以，如果你还没有适合你的市场，你可能需要开发一个。“文学翻译与技术翻译大相径庭，而翻译商业营销资料和翻译法律或医疗文件（如知会同意表）也完全是两码事。要想脱颖而出,突出你的独特技能和经验十分重要，”Kelly说。

最后，注册美国翻译协会，并登录一些在线翻译社区去寻找项目，如www.ProZ.com、www.elance.com、 www.TranslationDirectory.com、 www.translatorscafe.com等，Evens说。阅读诸如www.multilingual.com和www.translations-news.com之类的语言翻译杂志，掌握翻译行业动态。

你的收入取决于你所在的地区。Kelly说，丹麦、德国、葡萄牙、瑞士和美国的译者收入最多，而保加利亚、中国和摩尔多瓦的译者收入最少。Common Sense Advisory的统计显示，埃及译者的平均年收入约为20,000美元。

Tags: 翻译

Disposable Email accounts

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:03:28 GMT

clipped by: suavenyc72

Clip Source: www.guerrillamail.com

GuerrillaMail.com

Disposable Temporary E-Mail Address

German, Spanish, Polish and Dutch translations will be available soon! Would you like to help us translate to other languages as well? Please let us know! This website provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 Minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.

Clip Source: www.guerrillamail.com

Enviar esta página a:

lost in translation- all your base are belong to us, in the comfort of your home

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:23:19 GMT

clipped by: Seltahn
clipper's remarks: This is a very, very entertaining website. Ever visited an asian supermarket, and spent a long time looking at the seriously odd product descriptions? If so, prepare to waste a lot of time. This nifty little website takes your text and makes it truly worthy of any foreign translation! It works by running it through several languages in BabelFish, un-and-re translating.

This description became:

the previous paragraph became:

This one provisory is not extremely the very common one in the site of
the Web of the arrested internal part. Much hour comes, if it is taken
through Asian of the supermarket, from searchs one used in the
translation disowned of the serious product? With this case the
situation of the red tape will be this basic feeding with useless.
This selection is not, the small site of the Web estimates the text,
tests, the end that will become having the obligation of extrangeira
of everything, he is!

Clip Source: tashian.com

What happens when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth between 5 different languages? The authors of the Systran language translation software probably never intended this application of their program. As of September 2007, translation software is almost good enough to turn grammatically correct, slang-free text from one language into grammatically incorrect, barely readable approximations in another. But the software is not equipped for 10 consecutive translations of the same piece of text. The resulting half-English, half-foreign, and totally non sequitur response bears almost no resemblance to the original. Remember the old game of "Telephone"? Something is lost, and sometimes something is gained.

— Antoine de Saunt-Exupéry in The Little Prince

"Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Glossary of Astrological Terms

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:58:48 GMT

clipped by: bakancs
clipper's remarks: Terms commonly found in the translations of ancient astrological texts:

Clip Source: www.astrology-x-files.com

Here is a list of terms commonly found in the translations of ancient astrological texts:

Glossary of Astrological Terms

Tool to align translations and create TMs

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:43:05 GMT

clipped by: ginstrom
clipper's remarks: A free tool to align source and translation files and create translation memories

Clip Source: felix-cat.com

Align Assist Translation File Alignment Tool

Align Assist is an "alignment tool." It aligns source and translation files to create a translation memory (TM).

Tags: tm, align, translation memory

booo

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:25:03 GMT

clipped by: seriamente79

Clip Source: www.wordreference.com

Subscribe to the Oxford Concise or Unabridged dictionary for more translations, meanings and examples.

Menu Decoders

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:48:43 GMT

clipped by: madame travels

Clip Source: www.budgettravel.com

Don't know tourte from tartine, or harira from harissa? Before your next trip, print out one of these handy decoders with translations of food terms and popular dishes.

BARCELONA HTML | PDF

CHINA HTML | PDF

To view the China menu decoder in PDF format, you will need Acrobat Reader with the Chinese Simplified Font Pack. The Font Pack can be downloaded from Adobe's website.

FRANCE HTML | PDF

MOROCCO HTML | PDF

PORTUGAL HTML | PDF

PRAGUE PDF

Western Encounters with China 1600-1900

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:19:50 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: digital.library.mcgill.ca

The Jesuit accounts of Chinese civilization represented a profound shock to the European sensibility, where civilization was equated with Christianity. The gradual availability of translations of Chinese classics had a significant influence on some scholars of the Enlightenment, such as Gottfried Leibnitz 1646-1716), and Voltaire (1694-1778), who used Confucianism to challenge the religious establishment.

Clip Source: digital.library.mcgill.ca

The 17^th and 18^th century positive opinion of China began to be replaced by its opposite in the course of the nineteenth century, as more observers saw evidence of despotism and corruption. Their perceptions were fuelled in part by political revolution and constitutional change in Europe. Europeans, also experiencing rapid technological and social change, now saw the unchanging nature of China as an indication of a stagnant and decadent society.

Clip Source: digital.library.mcgill.ca

the 1839-42 ‘Opium War'

Clip Source: digital.library.mcgill.ca

unequivocal victory in Peking of the combined foreign forces in response to the Boxer Uprising, was devastating

Clip Source: digital.library.mcgill.ca

"Gay" man sues Bible publishers, part 2

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:40:20 GMT

clipped by: kris_tea

Clip Source: www.worldnetdaily.com

Zondervan says that even if Fowler's claim is credible, he's suing the wrong party. A company spokesman told WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids that Zondervan doesn't translate the Bible or own the copyright for any of the translations but relies, instead, on the "scholarly judgment of credible translation committees."

U.S. District Judge Julian Abele Cook Jr. refused Monday to appoint an attorney to represent Fowler in the Thomas Nelson case, saying the court "has some very genuine concerns about the nature and efficacy of these claims."

Fowler, who is representing himself in both lawsuits, says in his complaint against Zondervan that the publisher intended to design a religious, sacred document to reflect an individual opinion or a group's conclusion to cause "me or anyone who is a homosexual to endure verbal abuse, discrimination, episodes of hate, and physical violence ... including murder."

Doctors learn t'speak Yorkshire

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:50:40 GMT

clipped by: queerty
clipper's remarks: Do the patients get a list of words to help them understand 'Doctor speak'?

Clip Source: www.ananova.com

Doctors from overseas are getting a crash course on how to speak 'proper Yorkshire' because they were finding it so difficult to understand locals.

Despite having near perfect English, many foreign doctors were being left baffled by Yorkshire slang - so Doncaster Primary Care Trust now provides help through a special dictionary of words and phrases.

The colloquial translations were produced by Dr Lis Rodgers who is in charge of foreign recruitment for the Trust, reports Sky News.

"This is about trying to improve patient care and helping doctors to understand their patients," she said.

"This started when a colleague from Austria was told by a female patient she was about to examine, 'I've got my friend with me', which meant she had her period.

"I then asked staff working at the Trust to write down all of the colloquialisms they knew and give them to me. Believe me, the list has been edited a great deal."

Tags: nhs, health, words, language

PERFUME: the art of scent

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:01:26 GMT

clipped by: einbar

Clip Source: www.johncoulthart.com

Perfume is a good book and a favourite of mine

Süskind’s book presents to a designer: how best to represent the entwined strands of Grenouille’s career as a perfumier and a murderer of young women?

Süskind’s novel was published in 1985

the German first edition from Diogenes Verlag in a charity shop for the grand sum of 89p

sleeping woman motif that’s followed the story ever since. The first edition also includes details on the boards from Michel Etienne Turgot’s stunning Plan de Paris of 1739.

More recent Penguin editions have tried the abstract approach

The Watteau design was carried over onto foreign translations of the book,
including the original Penguin publications.

the nose should be a focus and on that score

A simple yet striking design, with elegant typography

a far better picture than the two latter examples is the controversial Yves Saint-Laurent Opium ad artwork from 2000

And so to the US cinema poster and another great design.