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Fiction in translation's future?
Translation News - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 23:33
Bright sparks amid gloom over the number of foreign-language books reaching English readers That nasty rumour still won't go away: publishing houses in the UK are allergic to literary fiction in translation. A recent report by English PEN even warned that "future geniuses comparable to Murakami or García Márquez might never become accessible to English readers" if the situation isn't properly ...
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‘Ana en el Tropico’ (‘Anna in the Tropics’): Found in translation at GALA
Translation News - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 20:48
Playwright Nilo Cruz first found his voice in translation as a boy in Miami when his Cuban immigrant parents would have him decipher missives in English. Cruz, who was 9 when the family arrived in the United States in 1970, made it his mission to master English as quickly as possible. He knew it was the ticket to success. Read full article >>
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Snap-On Beats Estimates
Translation News - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 17:30
Snap-On reported revenues of $736.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2011, up 5.7%, from 2010 levels. Excluding $1.5 million of favorable foreign currency translation, organic revenues increased 5.9%....
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CAD Translation Software offers Autodesk Inventor interface.
Translation News - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 16:08
Proficiency Collaboration Gateway enables transfer of complete design intelligence in conversion process between major CAD systems. Through native Autodesk® Inventor® interface, solution supports parametric assemblies and parts as well as associative drawings. It also provides complete, automatic solution for legacy data migration and OEM delivery to users of Autodesk Inventor. Interface also ...
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Enterprise Translation Leader MultiLing Continues Expansion With New Utah Headquarters
Translation News - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 14:10
PROVO, UTAH-- - The translation industry's most advanced provider of global enterprise and intellectual property translation is expanding again. Following its move to expanded headquarters in 2005, MultiLing ...
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Enterprise Translation Leader MultiLing Continues Expansion with New Utah Headquarters
Translation News - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 13:06
The translation industry’s most advanced provider of global enterprise and intellectual property translation is expanding again. Following its move to expanded headquarters in 2005, MultiLing has finalized an agreement to occupy two floors of the newly constructed Zions Bank building at 180 N.
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Translation drawn into question in Terre'Blanche trial
Translation News - Wed, 02/01/2012 - 20:15
The work of a translator who mediated between police and a youth accused of killing right wing leader Eugene Terre'Blanche is being questioned.
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Translation queried in Terre'Blanche case
Translation News - Wed, 02/01/2012 - 19:55
The work of a translator who mediated between the youth accused of killing Eugene Terre'Blanche and police officers has been called into question.
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Language Services Associates Named a Finalist in the 2012 Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service
Translation News - Wed, 02/01/2012 - 17:00
Language Services Associates , a global language service provider offering a full suite of translation, localization and interpretation solutions, announced today it has been named a finalist in the sixth annual Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service.
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Interactive Online Tool Provides Objective Method for Comparing and Evaluating Translation Technology Vendors
Translation News - Wed, 02/01/2012 - 15:35
BOSTON, Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Translation management systems (TMS) tools facilitate the rapid development, day-to-day management, and publishing of multilingual content in the estimated US$31 billion-dollar ...
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Who lost the plot? (UPDATED with Chinese Translation)
Translation News - Tue, 01/31/2012 - 18:37
You talk about the first BERSIH march of November 2007 and how that turned the tide that eventually saw the opposition win big in March 2008. Do you know that many in UMNO were supportive of BERSIH? Do you know I had many meetings with UMNO people on how to make the BERSIH march a success?
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Nuances of translation
Translation News - Tue, 01/31/2012 - 02:07
Authors Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany Chevallier, translators of French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir's ‘The Second Sex' on why the work is as relevant as ever
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The language of broken barriers
Translation News - Tue, 01/31/2012 - 02:00
Both Varma and Sampurna, who translate poetry, have had the authors of the original works congratulating them that the translation surpasses the original. Varma brushed aside the praise. "Gulzar and Kaifi Azmi are both generous and extremely cultured," he said, going on to quote Gulzar: "Translation is like a mistress, if she's beautiful, she's not faithful and if she's faithful, she is not ...
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The language of broken barriers
Translation News - Tue, 01/31/2012 - 00:53
Bengali is the most translated of all Indian languages and so it was in the fitness of things that the first edition of the Calcutta Literary Meet, held in association with The Telegraph, have multiple sessions on translation with about half a dozen author-translators attending.
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TransPerfect Legal Solutions Announces Release of Integrated Machine Translation with Relativity
Translation News - Mon, 01/30/2012 - 22:41
TransPerfect Legal Solutions , a leading global provider of legal support services, announced today the release of Integrated MT, a first-of-its-kind solution that integrates
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Lost in Translation: Pair Detained in Twitter U.S. Threat Mix-Up
Translation News - Mon, 01/30/2012 - 22:25
A young couple from across the pond was detained at a Los Angeles airport after Homeland Security agents mistook a couple Twitter quips for threats against the U.S., the two told British media today.
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Lost In Translation: Because Of Twitter Joke, Brits Denied Entry To U.S.
Translation News - Mon, 01/30/2012 - 22:04
The British tourist said he was going to "destroy America," meaning he was going to party hard, but Homeland Security took the threat seriously.
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Making a mark in many languages
Translation News - Mon, 01/30/2012 - 02:00
Chattarji, who has also translated Sukumar Ray's Abol Tabol, said: "I did the translation out of foolhardiness and love for Sukumar Ray." The session fittingly ended with a reading of the English translation of Ray's "Bhoy peyo na, bhoy peyo na, tomaye ami marbo na (Fear not, fear not, I won't hit you at all)".
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The Siren's Call: A once and future epic
Translation News - Sat, 01/28/2012 - 10:26
Simon Armitage's translation 'The Death of King Arthur' presents a familiar legend in an unexpected light; Bernard Cornwell pits Vikings against Saxons in 'Death of Kings.' Behind the action of Simon Armitage's marvelous translation of the Middle English epic "The Death of King Arthur" (W.W. Norton: 306 pp., $26.95), there's an unmistakable mood of bitterness.
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The Translation of the Bones - By Francesca Kay - Book Review
Translation News - Fri, 01/27/2012 - 23:32
The troubled women in Francesca Kay’s novel are caught up in strange happenings at a South London church.
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