German statutes in English/Deutsche Gesetze auf Englisch
am 02.02.2005 von TransblawgIt 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 …
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 Criminal Code translation/Englische Übersetzung des StGB
Transblawg / Wildy announce a forthcoming new translation of the German Criminal Code (Strafgesetzbuch) by Professor Michael Bohlander of Durham University. He also intends to publish a book on German criminal law this year. I think Ill wait to see the lat
What to do with long German sentences/Lange deutsche Sätze trennen beim Übersetzen?
Transblawg / German sentences are longer than English ones, in general. (Must find statistics) So they sometimes need to be broken up on translation into English. Maybe not in statutes (because German statutes are sometimes quoted by the half-sentence, or alterna
German Civil Code in English / BGB auf Englisch online
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / Follow this Link to the Website of the Bundesjustizministerium; for further sources and of German Law in German and English language see this Link-Collection at Simons Blawg. Via Margaret Marks - there you will find also more information about the b
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...
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
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
German-English technical translators weblog
Transblawg / Translationfound is the occasional weblog of Gisela Strauss, a technical translator in Munich. I t describes itself as follows: Translation Found is a loosely typed bilingual - English-German language blog, discussing language, translation and locali
Translation god sought in Düsseldorf / Übersetzer mit englischer Muttersprache in Düsseldorf gesucht
Transblawg / Only for native speakers of English who can translate marketing, technology, finance and economics and have two foreign languages in addition to German, several years experience, including interpreting and language teaching, to say nothing of se
Booklist: Books on German law in English/Bücherliste: Bücher zu deutschem Recht auf Englisch
Transblawg / The German legal bookshop Schweitzer has a superb commented booklist of books in English on German law, 51 pages long at present. In about four weeks’ time it should be online at the online shop. Or you can have it...
German Accounting Legislation / Deutsches Bilanzrecht
Transblawg / Deutsch und Englisch / German and English Many years ago, I had a copy of Deutsches Bilanzrecht, by Brooks/Mertin, which was a great secret weapon. That was a third edition of extracts from German accounting legislation, with a synoptic translatio
New translation weblog/Neuer Übersetzungsblog
Transblawg / Musings from an overworked translator is by German-English translator Jill Sommer in Ohio, who is active in the ATA and spent six years in Bonn. (Via Thoughts on Translation)
Shareholders/Gesellschafter
Transblawg / The translation of forms of business association is quite complex and takes so long to discuss that the steam goes out of the boiler before the discussion has got off the ground. I met some U.S. translators briefly last Friday, but not too briefly f
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
German-English translation weblog
Transblawg / Translation in the Trenches - ‘a blow-by-blow [account?] of a dog-eat-dog world’ is a translator’s weblog I’m unfamiliar with. I have my suspicions as to who Trench Warrior might be, but perhaps I’m wrong. Anyway, he men
Why learn German? - Apocryphal translation errors
Transblawg / Exeter University has pages for beginners in German including some material on Why learn German? There is sobering material, including links, about anti-German feelings in Britain. There are links on accentuating the positive. There is a list of ten
