In autumn 2016, the Southern Baptist Church, the largest Protestant denomination in the USA, has seen a new edition of their translation of the Bible published. The “Christian Standard Bible” or “CRB” has now rendered the language of the holy book in a way that is more gender inclusive.
“Mr and Mrs Dursley, o nummer fower, Privet Loan, were prood tae say that they were gey normal, thank ye awfie muckle.”
In 2016, AmazonCrossing, the publishing arm of the online retail giant, was the largest US publisher of translated fiction for the third year running. Although some may see this as a welcome development, helping to remedy the fact that translated literature makes up a very small part of the English language market, others have been more sceptical.
The translation of given names, whether of public figures, characters in books and even of our own names when we travel, is a sensitive matter.
The University of Warwick (Coventry, UK) has announced that will award its first “Prize for Women in Translation” in November 2017.
The Human vs. Artificial Intelligence Challenge, held at Sejong University in Seoul on 21st Feburary, saw human translators face off against machine translation engines.
In an early scene of the 2003 film “Lost in Translation”, Billy Murray’s character travels in a taxi through bustling Tokyo streets. He stares, open mouthed, at the brightly-lit signs, covered with symbols he cannot understand. Indeed, although linguistic barriers may create difficulties for all tourists the Japanese language’s use of 3 different writing systems, with thousands of different characters, may pose particular challenges.
The translation of official documents is not an easy task and has specific characteristics and rules that must be taken into account and respected, otherwise the procedures for which they are intended will be made invalid. Therefore, you should always use translation specialists and not run the risk of wasting unnecessary time and money.
There are some words from around the world that can’t be translated. Traductanet would like to present you with a list of 12 untranslatable words that we will try to explain.
For instance: is it the case that words such as the Portuguese “saudade” can only be truly understood by those who speak the language in question?
The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States on the 20th January marked, for better or worse, a seismic shift in US politics. There are many groups whose lives will be affected by Trump’s ascendancy to the Presidency. What is not so well known however, is the impact it will have on the language professionals working in the field of US politics.
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