The French film Les traducteurs (The Translators) premiered last year in November at the French Film Festival in Prague. The plot follows a group of nine talented polyglots charged with ... Read more >
To quote scholars Barbara Byrne and Fons van de Vijver (2010), the goal of translating scales in multilingual and cross-cultural comparative survey is to produce an instrument that "measures ... Read more >
Beyond the AI hype and controversial reports about automatic translation achieving parity with human translation, neural machine translation (NMT) has undoubtedly made spectacular progress in the last three years. Should professional translators resist ... Read more >
Never before has translation been as important as during the current coronavirus pandemic. Understanding relevant medical terms is vital at all times but all the more so during a global health ... Read more >
People across China have been very creative in past weeks in finding ways to get around the ban on an article that was critical of how the government handled the coronavirus ... Read more >
Was the removal of the Parthenon Marbles by Lord Elgin, who brought them to Britain in the early 19th century, "legal"? A leaked draft of EU paper stirs Parthenon marbles ... Read more >
Subtitles translate a film's dialogue into a written text superimposed on the screen, allowing viewers to read along while following the actors as they speak in their ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Translating the Classics was for centuries "men's work", writes US academic, historian and writer Erika Harlitz-Kern, in a recent article for The Week. (1) Historically, women were expected to translate the works of their contemporaries ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
At least 1500 interpreters and translators in the Netherlands are on strike as of the 13th of January and refuse to take work from the judiciary, police and immigration service. They are striking against government budget cuts, which ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
The conversion of verbs into nouns is called "nominalisation" (the opposite, turning nouns into verbs, is called "verbing" or "denominalisation"). There are two types of nominalisation. The first involves adding a suffix: the verb "to investigate" produces ... Read more >