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Sunday, February 28, 2010

More on the Shafia Hearing

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The other day (February 18), I made some remarks about the Farsi (aka Dari) interpreters at the preliminary hearing for a murder trial in On...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

Olympics Interpreting

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Watched the Vancouver Winter Olympics on TV this week. Spanish TV uses native Spanish commentators, so no interpreting except during an occa...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

Malenglish

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Yesterday’s post nearly didn’t make it to the blog. My computer was invaded by malware. A rogue antivirus program calling itself Antivirus S...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

The Shafia Hearing (continued)

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This is a continuation of the preceding post. Please read the other one first. The photo shows the Frontenac County Court House in Kingston....
Monday, February 15, 2010

Murder and NT

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A terrible murder trial is just getting underway in Canada. It’s particularly shocking because the victims were three teenage girls and an o...
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Sign Language Natural Translation

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There are still a lot of misconceptions about sign language for the hard of hearing ('the deaf' for short). Many people, perhaps mos...
Saturday, February 6, 2010

Death of a Language

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The media have been reporting a sad cultural and linguistic event: the death of Boa Sr. (the Sr. stands for Senior). See photo. She was the ...
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Degrees in Arabic and Middle East History. Certified translator and certified conference interpreter. 30 years of teaching translating and interpreting in Canada, Spain and elsewhere, and of research. Now retired in Spain. For more, see 'natural translation hypothesis' in Wikipedia.
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