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St Nicholas Girls’ may offer translation course as ’O’ Level subject
SINGAPORE : St Nicholas Girls’ School wants to offer a course on translation as an ’O’ Level subject come 2012, provided the Ministry of Education approves its proposal submitted on Thursday.

PULP celebrates winners of ‘Grinch’ translation contest
The scattered conversations in Spanish and French faded as students ate Chinese take-out and listened to a translation of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” in Twi, a language spoken in Ghana...

Internet translation site takes a humorous turn on fathers
Bring up the subject of fathers with Japanese people studying the English language and you might find their locutions a little on the strange side. This is because Space Alc, the popular Japanese-English translation Web site, has been drawing attention for its many funny example sentences for "oto-san" (father). Read the full story

UAE University hosts translation conference
UAE University hosts translation conference

This Week in HD: Literal Translation
HD programming picks for Nov. 20-26: “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?,” “Crusoe” and “True Blood” “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?,” (Starz) Thurs., Nov. 20, 5:35 p.m.: In the Coen brothers’ film loosely based on Homer’s “The Odyssey,” three escaped convicts (George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson) set off through 1937 Mississippi to find a hidden treasure. “Crusoe,” (NBC) Fri., Nov. 21, 9 ...

Translation Memory Software facilitates global communication.
Used as platform-independent, Java-based editing environment, Wordfast v6.0 also lets translators, LSPs, and corporate localization teams use MS Word-based Wordfast Classic. UI is customizable and supports toggle between table/document translating views. In addition to short cut key mappings for translation memory (TM) systems, solution offers capabilities for simultaneously linking multiple TMs ...

Europe Launches Its Own Digital Library
In riposte to Google Books, site sponsored by 27 countries goes on line and is instantly swamped. Europeana will offer books in 23 languages and instant translation.

A Ranchwife's Slant: Spouses get lost in translation
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IBM to buy Transitive
IBM has announced plans to acquire Transitive, the company that makes the code translation technology behind Apple's Rosetta. IBM says Transitive's software will enable x86 Linux applications to run on Power systems. Read More...

Forward.com
“Some years ago I heard a Christian minister say that the King James translation of the fifth of the Ten Commandments, the Hebrew lo tirtsaḥ , as ‘Thou shalt not kill’ rather than ‘Thou shalt not murder’ was an accurate translation for its day.

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SPSS and Language Weaver Unveil Solution for Rapid Interpretation of Government Intelligence Documents
Entries Sought for 36th Korean Literature Translation Awards
Interpreters Lost in Translation
Open source translation tools
BabelPort
Translation Transformation: Governments Get Serious About Being Clear (from The Washington Post)
AATIA Letter (Austin Area Translators and Interpreters Association)
L'antenne (Ordre des traducteurs et interprètes agréés du Québec)
Apuntes: Spanish Language Translation Journal
Communicate! (International Association of Conference Interpreters)
German Language Translation Newsletter
Gotham Translator (New York Circle of Translators)
Language International
Machine Translation News International
Proteus (National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators)
Transforum (Association of Translators and Interpreters of Alberta)
Translation Journal

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