Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Alain Colmerauer, Machine Translation Pioneer

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TAUM group showing off a piece of Q-System output circa 1970 My recent birthday, my 88th, was clouded over by news that somebody I...
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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Interpreter Ethics (updated)

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"Ethics: moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity." .A Spanish and an Americ...
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Saturday, April 15, 2017

Did Christ and Pontius Pilate Need an Interpreter?

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This is an Easter digression from the usual topics of this blog. One of the lesser mysteries of Easter is the language in which Jesus Chr...
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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Football and Baseball Interpreters and Interpreter Mimicry

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Javi Gracia and Interpreter Back in 2010 – time flies – there was a post on this blog about a pilotari , a player of the traditional...
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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Next Non-professional Intepreting & Translation Conference

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Post No. 386 Things are moving! The call for papers has appeared for the Fourth International Conference on Non-professional Interpr...
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Monday, February 27, 2017

Competitions for 'Budding Translators'

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A good way to stimulate young people's interest in something is to take advantage of their natural competitiveness by running a compe...
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Thursday, February 9, 2017

Two Teenage Egyptian Interpreters

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1. Luxor 1980 At dawn one morning in 1980 or thereabouts my wife and I left our hotel in Luxor to catch an early felucca across the Ni...
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