Court interpreter weblog
am 19.01.2006 von Transblawg
I seem to have missed this one, but Céline quotes from it.
The blog started on December 11:
In my opinion, the public doesn´t really understand what an interpreter does. There are all kinds of interpreters: U.N. interpreters, conference interpreters, escort interpreters, seminar interpreters, court interpreters … sign-language interpreters. Nicole Kidman played an interpreter in The …
Interpreter weblog/Dolmetscherblog
Transblawg / From Our Lips to Your Ears is a weblog about interpreting by Nataly Kelly in New Hampshire. She is collecting interpreters' stories for a book project, whose site is here ('Contact Us' must be the royal we)n and the main purpose of the bl…
Court interpreting problems in Scotland/Gerichtsdolmetschermangel in Schottland
Transblawg / The Scotsman reports on court interpreting problems in Scotland: some trials have collapsed because the untrained interpreter was incompetent, and with the influx of foreign nationals into Scotland the problem is increasing (its presumably a mag…
Misinterpreting / Fehlerhaftes Dolmetschen
Transblawg / Just a note that both Language Log and languagehat have entries about poor court interpreting and its effects for the defendant. Bill Poser in Language Log talks about people who can speak two languages but don’t know anything about interpretin…
Court case on poor interpreting/Klage über fehlerhaftes Dolmetschen in Ontario
Transblawg / A class-action lawsuit in Ontario was filed in April alleging that the government uses an inadequate test for court interpreters. This was reported by the Globe and Mail - original article available for payment. It can also be found on Lia Bar…
Canadian multilingual legal glossary/Glossar kanadisches Rechtsenglisch
Transblawg / A comment by Cheryl Stephens (Plain Language Wizardry) under the last entry recommends a multilingual legal glossary at Vancouver Community College. Unfortunately this has no German. It offers plain-language definitions of 5000 terms in Canadian law…
Job for translators (interpreters) abroad
Transblawg / Feeling jaded - need some excitement? Jobs for translators (interpreters?) in Iraq. Contract is for 12 months (or perhaps less?) Thanks to Tim Slater on Compuserve for the link....…
EU glossaries / EU-Glossare
Transblawg / Mehrsprachige Glossare der EU-Dolmetscher zum Downloaden. There is a big collection of excellent interpreters’ glossaries from the EU interpreting service (is ‘interpretation’ not the US term? but perhaps it’s crept over the P…
Interpreting for the police / Dolmetschen für die Polizei
Transblawg / Gabi Zöttl gives a number of useful links on her translation weblog (German), including one to an article in the Münchner Merkur on the increasingly unprofitable business of interpreting for the police. Using the example of Hans-Joachim Lank…
Interpreters and Piano Man
Transblawg / It sounds as if Piano Man may come from the Czech Republic: The behaviour of the unidentified stranger, who is in a secure unit in north Kent, has left health professionals flummoxed. All attempts to coax him into communication, including...…
Interpreters ethics/Ethische Frage für Dolmetscher
Transblawg / I just traced the translator ethics article to its original source at the New York Times, where it costs something to access. While at that site, I found another ethics question about an interpreter: Some time ago I was working as a court interpret…
Translators are a race apart/Dolmetscher scheuen Seife und Sonnenlicht
Transblawg / Norman Birkett on the interpreters - of course referred to by him as translators - at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, as quoted by Mrs Boyo in The Daily Scorch: …translators are a race apart – touchy vain, unaccountable full of vagaries,…
Books on legal English - general/ Bücher über die englische Rechtssprache - allgemein
Transblawg / I wrote a whole screen on how you should choose a book as carefully as you choose your toothpaste, but I suspect people want concrete advice. That follows in a later entry. Here's the general waffle: Books to learn legal English /Bücher zu…
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