English translations of speeches by Federal German President
am 06.10.2004 von TransblawgHeiko Hebig has an entry: Are all English translators in Germany on strike? Surely Horst Köhler has delivered more than one speech. He links to this page of …
German politics in English
Transblawg / Wortfeld, usually a German-language blog, has an entry in English describing the background to Schröder’s announcement of autumn elections. There are a large number of links. As Alexander rightly says, the coverage of German matters in the
Use of English in German enterprises
Transblawg / The Financial Times (English edition) of 12 April 2005 has two articles on the use of English in German businesses: English is not always music to the ears, and The new lingua germanica. They will be free online for a...
German Civil Code in English/BGB auf Englisch online
Transblawg / The Bundesjustizministerium has put an English translation of the German Civil Code online. It was done by Langenscheidt Übersetzungsservice. The same provisos apply as in the last entry with reference to translations of the Criminal Code! I w
German statutes in English online
Transblawg / There are two good sites to find links to online English translations of German statutes. One is the German Law Archive, run by Gerhard Dannemann, and the other is Carob, Robin Stocks’ weblog (click at the top right). However, if...
Perlentaucher.de goes English
Transblawg / Signandsight, Perlentaucher’s English site went online on March 1. It is subtitled ‘Arts, Essays, Ideas from Germany’. Perlentaucher.de is a site that collects, summarizes and links to German-language books and reviews. The English
Translations of Austrian statutes online
Transblawg / I have already mentioned some translations into English of Austrian statutes. Here are some more. I was wondering if the Austrian Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde had given itself an English name. I discovered its site is mildly allergic to Firefox and
German Civil Code translation into English/BGB ins Englische übersetzt
Transblawg / LAWgical reports that the German Civil Code is being translated into English, to appear online. All 5 books are to be translated into British English by autumn 2005 and appear online as part of the German Federal Ministry of Justice’s...
German statutes in English/Deutsche Gesetze auf Englisch
Transblawg / It can be useful to see an English translation of a German statute one is quoting in a translation. At worst, such translations may contain so many errors that they are not worth consulting. Better ones may give a springboard...
Unclogged English/Englisch enthollandisieren
Transblawg / I see that today the Dutch Queen's Day is being celebrated on the South Bank, so time to mention the presentation at the ITI conference on unclogged English last weekend. Dr. Joy Burrough-Boenisch has spent many years editing scientific English
Translator still wondering
Transblawg / In the last entry, I mentioned – inter alia - non-native speakers of English correcting my grammar. This has been met by a couple of rants about Germans writing English. I do feel like ranting against Germans correcting English myself...
German and English translation weblog / English-Deusches Übersetzungsweblog
Transblawg / I really ought to week out some dead weblogs from my blog roll. Of course one doesn't want all of them to be active all the time, but some of them are greatly missed. The demise of Open Brackets was a sad loss, to say nothing of Translation from
Federal Constitutional Court in English/Bundesverfassungsgericht auf Englisch
Transblawg / The German Federal Constitutional Court now has an English version of its website. Previously there have been English versions of judgments online, but they have not been easy to find. Now the link to decisions is available.
German court names translated / Deutsche Gerichtsbezeichnungen in Fremdsprachen
Transblawg / The German Auswärtiges Amt long since published a list of German court names and their translations into English, French and Spanish. I see this list has now been augmented to contain Russian, Bulgarian, Italian, Polish, Macedonian, Croatian an
Diploma / M.A. in legal translation, City University London
Transblawg / City University has recently announced, apparently, that its diploma / M.A. course on legal translation is not starting till autumn 2008. Meanwhile, there are a number of modules that can be taken separately as CPD (The ITI has recently been encourag
German Corporate Law Brief
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. A recommendation from Margaret Marks, author of TransBlawg: 87 pages PDF on German Corporate and Financial Law, in English, at Prof. Noacks blogsite. If Margaret calls it excellent, we can endorse it before having reviewed it. Trans
Schadenfreude
Transblawg / In the Bremer Sprachblog, Anatol Stefanowitsch has an entry on the use of Schadenfreude in English - the British and Americans claim, he says, that the feeling is unknown in English, which doesn't have a word for it, but of course Germans do. The
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