PIERCE ALQUIST – 09-17-19 Over the past few months, Women in Translation Month founder Meytal Radzinski has been accepting nominations for the 100 best books by women writers in translation. Votes came in from readers all over the world and almost 800 unique books were nominated! Each reader could send up to ten nominations to contribute to …
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Hendrik J. Kockaert – 2019-06-14 In today’s highly wired communication world, scholars and practitioners of translation studies cannot turn a blind eye to machine translation. The easily available translation tools deliver fast, free and targeted content. But are they a match for innate human skills? A new International Organization for Standardization standard for machine translation, …
THE WEEKEND TEAM 13 SEP 2019 Myanmar has a long literary history, from the days of transcribing the Buddhist scriptures in Kuthodaw Pagoda (officially the world’s largest book), to once having the highest literacy rates in the developing world. Whether readers are interested in religion, psychology, fantasy, travel or self-help, there’s a book for every type …
By MADELINE FOX It can be hard to find a truly quiet place in the Lake Worth-based Guatemalan-Maya Center. Just inside one door, case workers and other staff answer phones and talk clients through paperwork, immigration processes and other services. A long, narrow room on the ground floor has chairs along one wall that are often …
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Language is much more than just a means of communication. It is what makes us a civilized humans. Therefore, there is always something to seek from the work of a translator. Dipen Pradhan – September 4, 2019 Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Throughout history, translators have played an important role in the dissemination of ideas …
Written by Antonia Ava World has become a global village. In this era of globalization business activities need expansion. For the expansion of business activities it is very essential to meet your audience where they are. For this purpose your audience need to be engaged and for engaging global audience it is necessary to consider …
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Afrikaans into Khmer? No problem. Hungarian into Punjabi? Easy peasy. Once the realm of pure science fiction, new technology that allows people to communicate instantly with each other using different languages is now a reality – and it’s poised to change the world. That at least is the bold claim made by experts amid rapid …
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26 August 2019 Australian translator and academic Bonnie Suzanne McDougall has won a Special Book Award of China at the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF). McDougall was awarded the prize for her work developing the skills of young Chinese translators overseas as a professor at the University of Sydney, and translating books such as Letters Between …
Geeta Padmanabha – AUGUST 24, 2019 Some universities in Tamil Nadu are introducing courses on Indian literature in translation; textbooks are also being developed, looking at rich layered pieces chosen from local languages If you said “What!” at the end of Guy de Maupassant’s The Necklace, followed the adventures of The Three Musketeers and buried your nose in Tagore’s Geetanjali, …
Source: Industry News · By Marion Marking . On August 21, 2019 On August 12, 2019, the California State Legislature held a committee hearing on a bill that seeks to require employers to meet the ABC Test for their independent contractors to be lawfully classified as such. The bill, “Worker status: employees and independent contractors,” which goes by its number AB5, basically …
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