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, …
By The News Manual Reporting and writing across different languages. In the previous three modules on language and style from The News Manual we look at the basic structures for news articles, the words used when writing reports, and some important grammatical rules. In this, the final module of four, we look at these issues in the context of reporting and writing across …
Ruth Gledhill – 08 AUGUST 2019 The historian Eamon Duffy has criticised a new Bible translation as guilty of ‘flaccid’ waffle and ‘casual inaccuracy’ An academic war of words has broken out among leading Catholic scholars over the Revised New Jerusalem (RNJB) translation of the Bible. The world-renowned historian, Professor Eamon Duffy, of Magdalene College, Cambridge, …
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What is being translated in the Arab world does not exceed 1% of the total volume of translated material on Earth. The Arab Weekly – Hassan Ouazzani 03/08/2019 Data released by the French Publishers Association indicate that the number of Arabic books translated and distributed in France in 2018 did not exceed 90, while the …
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Mark Robinson – August 1, 2019 Genesis 11:9 tells us that “the Lord did there [the Tower of Babel] confound the language of all the earth”. Whether Yahweh anticipated the commercial opportunities this move would afford is difficult to say, but according to MRFR Analysis, the global translation service market is expected to grow at an annualised …
16 July 2019 , By Maite Francois Nowadays, anyone can get a translation in a matter of seconds online. But while a machine translation is excellent for getting a general idea of the meaning of a text, it can get you into all kinds of trouble if you are relying on it to be 100% accurate. Translating …
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Rilind Elezaj – Jan 22 Not every language structure is the same as English. As English speakers, it is easy to forget this seemingly common sense sounding fact. Languages differ, lettering characters differ, and writing styles differ from language to language. Most designers and developers do not keep this in mind and assume that once the …
The choice of a reliable partner to help you communicate your products, brand and foreign operations is crucial. The correct translation of legal documents, attractively written website or easily understandable manuals are all important to the success of your business. If you need an adequate translation of your documents, you will most likely consult a …
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A translator does not transcribe a text, he argues, nor do they rewrite it May 21st 2019 by A.P. FOR A long time, translators had a hard time of it. They were underpaid and under-recognised by the literary establishment, rarely mentioned in reviews of the titles they worked on. But as foreign fiction has gained popularity—according …
From a Japanese masterpiece to a gothic horror set in Baghdad … which novels to read following the Man Booker International prize. Translations make up only a tiny proportion of the literary fiction published in the UK, but as a survey revealed in 2016, they punch well above their weight in sales. The boom driven by writers …
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