In Translation

Gent, Belgium, 22 December 2009 -Tale of Tales releases translations of their indie horror game The Path, thanks to the help of many volunteers. The freely available patch translates the game to Danish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian or Spanish.  

Forum: Business issuesTopic: Professional Translators Against Crowdsourcing and Other Unethical Business PracticesPoster: Cedomir PusicaPost title: Machine Translation [quote]M. Ali Bayraktar wrote: But crowdsourcing damages the industry less than Machine Translations. What about to start an initiative against Google and other MT Producers and make them provide MT services not free of charge but payable. [/quote] Dear Mr. Ali, [...]  

Forum: Translation Theory and PracticeTopic: Training Human Translators as Opposed to Programming MT SystemsPoster: Fang KePost title: Translations are interpretations… Unless deliberately trying to do so, a human translator simply would not translate like a machine (any today＇s machine at least), no matter how poor his or her translation skills may be. If it＇s possible machines [...]  

The early diffusion of Darwin's ideas into China resulted in multiple interpretations, imperfect translations and unsatisfactory terminology, as James Pusey notes in his Opinion article (Nature462, 162–163; 2009). However, he inadvertently implies that it was the Chinese scholar  

The ability to communicate in Spanish is fast becoming a real need for many professionals. In order to meet this growing demand, Site Translations Inc. (www.site-translations.com), a translation services agency is launching a new Learn Spanish Program geared towards individuals or group situations. Site Translations' Learn Spanish Program lessons are designed for business purposes or self-enrichment. Classes are tailored to industry-specific...  

Today, we're excited to announce the release of the Google Translator Toolkit Data API. Translator Toolkit is a powerful but easy-to-use editor that enables translators to bring a human touch to machine translation through translation search, bilingual dictionaries, and custom terminology databases. Using Translator Toolkit, you can translate HTML, Word, AdWords, Wikipedia, and other documents in a WYSIWYG ("what-you-see-is-what-you-get...  

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[We talk to two veteran Square Enix translators on the intriguing history of localization at the Final Fantasy creator, and their work on classic titles like Vagrant Story.] At the most recent Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, Kajiya Productions gave a presentation on their work localizing Japanese games into English. Operated by Alexander O. Smith and Joseph Reeder, the two translators have also worked in novels, manga, and anime. The team is...  

The longer one translates, the more obvious it becomes that translation is a craft, like any other, which, like wine, matures and improves with age. What for many a novice translator is confusing and complicated may be second nature or not need a second thought for the experienced linguist. This becomes especially apparent in translation training [...]  

CNET NewsGoogle adds translation to main search engineAFPSAN FRANCISCO — Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service. A new "translated search" tool lets ...Goodbye, Dictionary.com...Hello, Google DictionaryZDNetGoogle's search engine now features translationTopNewsGoogle Launches Tool To Search in Other LanguagesSci-Tech TodayeWeek -TopNews United States -Internet Search Engine...  

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Sound of communal harmony: Gita on song - in UrduSamayLiveWhile he has achieved that with 40 'shlokas' or verses so far, he has now set the bar even higher by aiming for a lyrical translation of the Hindu scripture ...and more »  

Mormon TimesJoseph's translation shows remarkable consistencyMormon TimesAfter Martin Harris lost the first 116 pages of Book of Mormon translation he was released from his duty as Joseph's scribe. ...  

Lost in translationIndian ExpressA section of the councillors of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation have time and again expressed their inability to comprehend the proceedings of the ...