Collegiate Assistant Professor Miguel Caballero Vázquez and second-year Maya Osman-Krinsky talk to The Maroon about their exhibit on the poetry of the Spanish Civil War. By Zoe Bean What happens when fascism wins? This is the title and overarching concern of the Regenstein Library exhibit created by Collegiate Assistant Professor Miguel Caballero Vázquez and second-year Maya
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Emil A. Wcela – May 08, 2019 “Literal, reverent, faithful to the Latin original, suited to a sacred function like the Divine Liturgy”? Or “clunky, with run-on Latin sentences where the subject is long forgotten by the time one gets to the object, a misguided attempt to teach Latin grammar and vocabulary by means of
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BY JADE MORGANFIELD, STAFF WRITER – MAY 2, 2019 Filed under Around Campus, Champaign-Urbana, News University graduate student in creative writing, Edgar Garbelotto received recognition for his translation of the Brazilian novel “Lord,” written by João Gilberto Noll, into English. The novel was originally written in Portuguese and was reviewed by The New York Times. Garbelotto also participated in
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By JOON YOUNG KWON As English is a de facto lingua franca of the world, many countries opt to incorporate English words into their languages. In doing so, translation of English has become an important part of their language systems, and has significantly affected daily communication. In this article, I would like to explore how East
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The language also referred to by some as “Twi” is spoken in Ghana by 58% of the population. Around 30% of Ivorians also speak the language. by Isaac Kaledzi – March 31, 2019 A group of young Ghanaians has started translating Wikipedia pages into Ghana’s foremost local language “Akan”. The language also referred to by some as “Twi”
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By IFP Media Wire -March 19, 2019 Popular search engines use machine translation to translate one language to another in seconds. But the problem with machine translation is it merely substitutes the words without really understanding the meaning behind them. While this is impressive, it can also be a reason for concern for many companies trying to
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B. Kolappan – MARCH 15, 2019 On Wednesday, addressing a mammoth election rally in Nagercoil, Congress president Rahul Gandhi launched a spirited attack on the Rafale deal saying the contract was awarded to [Anil] Ambani, who had no previous experience in manufacturing aircraft. But the Tamil audience did not get the import of his English speech
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G S Jayasree – MARCH 07, 2019 Despite facing a double disadvantage of language and gender, body of translation literature of and by women is growing in the country Women translators. Translating women. The moment we begin writing about women engaged in the act of moving a text from one language to another, we face the very
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Around 186 million people in the world are believed to speak Arabic, making it the sixth most popular language. Arabic is also used by a large chunk of the Muslim population of the planet as this is the language of the Holy Quran. Needless to say, the importance of Arabic cannot be underestimated. This is
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Meenakshi Shivram FEBRUARY 02, 2019 The translation has editorial lapses, but it’s the ticket to Punjai A classic question perennially asked of translations is: who is to judge the merit of a translated text? Should it be those who have read the original or those who do not have access to the original? Readers not
