Translation weblog
am 22.03.2005 von http://transblawg.euI found Paul Frank’s Language Jottings in the links at geotransblog. It describes itself as follows: Here you’ll find occasional jottings on language, translation, and whatever strikes my …
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…
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…
Japanese patent translator
Transblawg / There is an article about the patent translator Hidejiro Tanigawa in Daily Yomiuri Online. It’s a description of his career and his opinions about patent translation. It’s a good summary for those who are ignorant of technical translati…
San Diego doctors challenge free translation and interpreting
Transblawg / Eric Bakovic of Language Log, in ‘Translation and Free Speech’, links to a New York Times articleof August 31st: SAN DIEGO (AP) — Several doctors and a group supporting English as the nation’s official language filed a lawsuit…
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)...…
About Translation weblog
Transblawg / In About Translation, Riccardo (a long-since Flefoid, perhaps?) reports on translation news. Via Translator’s Blog, by Sonja Tomaskovic, who is building up an annotated links list....…
Statutory heir / Gesetzlicher Erbe 3
Transblawg / To sum up: in German law, there are Erben whether a person made a will or not. (Gesetzliche Erbfolge - gewillkürte Erbfolge) So sometimes the term gesetzlicher Erbe needs to be translated. What do you do, when it really matters? Strictly speaki…
Robert Gernhardt
Transblawg / Robert Gernhardt, who died of cancer on Friday at the age of 68, wrote ‘light’ or ‘nonsense’ and also more serious poetry. I have sometimes tried, not very successfully, to translate some into English. I think it could be tra…
Pseudo-English revisited
Transblawg / Languagehat has taken up the topic I mentioned earlier, and in his comments, Bertil gives a link to the Wikipedia page on Scheinanglizismen. This is what I need. I am sure there are more around, and it would make sense to add them here. I had been t…
Neanderthaler language / [Igunartok]
Transblawg / Almost exactly 150 years after the Neandertaler was found, we still don’t know much about them, but we do know what their language sounded like - or at least, one Ruth Omphalius thought up a Neandertaler language for a German TV series. It has…
Punctuation differences / Interpunktionsunterschiede
Transblawg / I would comment in Language Log’s comments feature if it had one, but it doesn’t, so here goes: Geoffrey K. Pullum writes: There’s a punctuation rule that American publishers follow rather strictly though British publishers do not:…
Düsseldorf Language and Law conference/Konferenz zu Recht und Sprache in Düsseldorf
Transblawg / The Language and Law Conference will be held from May 17 to 19, 2006 in Duesseldorf, Germany. It is an interdisciplinary joint-venture of the University of Duesseldorf and the University of California, Los Angeles. The full programme should be onlin…
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