Translation links/Übersetzungslinks
am 04.10.2008 von http://transblawg.eu
1. On Sarah Dillons weblog, there is an entry headed 5 Qs with Marc Prior:
Based in Germany, Marc Prior is a freelance translator with over 20 years’ professional translation experience under his belt. By day, he translates from German, Italian and Dutch into English, specialising in occupational health and safety and environmental engineering. By night, he’s a mentor on the very popular ITI Professional Support Group and is also active on support forums for a range of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) tools. Read on for Marc’s take on life without Windows and getting started as a translator.
This is an interesting interview, mainly about Linux and becoming a translator. Marc was in his mid-teens when he decided to become a translator, so he presumably went through the whole process consciously, which makes him well-suited as a mentor.
2. I know Marc from FLEFO on Compuserve, in the good old days. When I was talking to him recently, I was mentioning Brian Mossops book Revising and Editing for Translators. I read the first edition and found it very interesting. Part of it I implemented, and part I read away from the office so never got back to. Mossop discusses degrees of quality, since checking has to take place under constraints of time and money. He also quotes empirical studies - what do translators actually do when they revise? I wondered if the second edition was much different? It looks as if it has more on computer …
Journal of Specialised Translation
Transblawg / The online Journal of Specialised Translation has appeared again, this time with an issue on revising. Brian Mossop wrote a wonderful book on revising, which has just come out in its second edition. His article describes a number of empirical studie…
Translation weblogs / Übersetzerweblogs
Transblawg / Some years ago, searching for weblog + translation usually led to sites dealing with the translation of computer programs in computer languages. Now there are many more human-language translation weblogs and it's hard to keep up with them. Maske…
Linux for translators / Linux für Übersetzer
Transblawg / An interview with Marc Prior, who has been advocating the use of Linux for translators for as long as I've known him, cam be found at Open Source Update. He answers questions on how he got started with Linux, what his current working environment…
Translation Journal new edition
Transblawg / The January 2005 edition of the free online Translation Journal has appeared. I note in particular a translator’s profile of the unforgettable Alexander Feht, and a number of articles in Spanish and one in Italian - it’s a good idea...…
Linux for translators 2 / Linux für Übersetzer 2
Transblawg / Further to my entry of 25 December, Marc adds another. Quoting a message to the ITI GerNet group: PCLOS-Trans homepage.uibk.ac.at/~c61302/pclostrans.html (German) Linguas OS www.baldwinlinguas.com/linguasos.html (English) PCLOS-Trans is a liv…
FR>EN DE>EN translator blog
Transblawg / Here’s another translation weblog, Translation Musings. The blogger seems to have been active in April but not in May, however. (Via blogroll of The German-English Translator)...…
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