by Giovanna Lester | Oct 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? — Translation and the Meaning of Everything — By David Bellos — Book Review – NYTimes.com. It’s often said, for instance, that a translation can’t ever be an adequate substitute for the original. But a translation, Bellos...
by Giovanna Lester | Oct 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
The American Translators Association 52nd Annual Conference is coming to a close. ATIF is making this update available to those who were not able to go and still want to stay current with developments. Holly Mikkelson is the 2011 Gode Medal recipient. The Gode Medal...
by Giovanna Lester | Oct 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
Hartford Translator Wins National School Outreach Award “Good translations open doors, whereas mistakes can be embarrassing, costly, and potentially disastrous,” stated Nicholas Hartman, President of the American Translators Association. Through the...
by Giovanna Lester | Oct 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
U.S. Medical Device “Total Cost of Content” Estimated at over $1 Billion – MarketWatch. For most manufacturers, increased complexity means significantly increased cost to create, update, maintain, translate, and format device-related content...
by Giovanna Lester | Oct 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Medical interpreters in demand for health industry. Because of the growth of the non-English-speaking population in the U.S., and federal laws that require services be understood by people with limited English skills, medical interpreters are in increasing...
by Giovanna Lester | Oct 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Language Fossils Buried in Every Cell of Your Body | Human Evolution | DISCOVER Magazine. MIT linguist Noam Chomsky asserted that the way children acquire language is so effortless that it must have a biological foundation. Building on this idea, some of...
