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If you’re attending this year’s ATA Conference, being held in Denver, Colorado, and you happen to be interested in aerospace terminology, stop by my presentation on Saturday. Details cribbed from the ATA Conference list of sessions by language are shown below. SL-5 A linguistics professor was giving a lecture to a class of freshmen and was trying to make a point about how different languages go about expressing a negative. “In some languages, a single negation is sufficient to denote a negative, as is the case in English,” said the prof. “In others, such as Russian, negatives are grammatically [...] A search string of a product name plus the manufacturer often takes you to a page with product data for the item, often in English. Case in point: Some time ago, I was translating a table of hardward items that contained something called a “pièce de référence,” with the additional information that it was manufactured by [...] A large chunk of the world represents dates with the days up front, followed by the month, followed by the year (for example, October 19, 2010 would be written 19/10/10 or 19/10/2010). American readers, generally speaking, prefer the month to come first, followed by the date and the year (e.g., 10/19/10 or 10/19/2010). To make [...] Translators live and die by the word count, but don’t be like one of my translator acquaintances who can never just “answer a question,” preferring instead to “provide a response to an interrogative statement.” Thus, avoid “description of the hazardous condition” for описание опасного условия when “hazard description” will do, and don’t “conduct a visual inspection” [...] If you browse among any of the offerings for the Kindle on the Amazon site, you cannot fail to notice the enticement to send you a sample of the publication so you can “Try it free.” In addition to allowing you to get an idea of what the book is about, this feature also allows you [...] Products developed in the United States typically need to be reworked at some point to “internationalize” them, particularly from the perspective of the use of non-Latin characters. Amazon’s Kindle falls into this category of product. UFHack is a hack for the Amazon Kindle 2 (including the international version) and the Kindle DX (including the international [...] I must admit to having been spoiled rotten by technology. A few laptops ago, I learned that not only could you hook up an external display to the computer, but that you could “extend” the Windows desktop to allow you to work with both screens at once. By strategically positioning the screens next to each other, [...] |
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