Trinity of One (a tale of love, loss and redemption) 4/9

...'t enough, he was now apparently in charge of the other 99 translators. When he got up the courage to ask his CO, Col. ... of certain English words among the residents from countries who used the language primarily for science. He'd already found out that English wasn't a .... He'd felt nothing but relief when he'd completed his language training because now he could get to the real work at hand, ...

Trinity of One (a tale of love, loss and redemption) 3/9

...Because who else was hiring Arabic translators who had been booted out of...d be willing to learn another language - uh, even French - if necessary.... until he acquired a new language. Now Rob understood why the ... be willing to learn another language. Well, it certainly wasn't ... Rob was studying only one language. Okay, really two, as he ... worked only for the spoken language. After opening several of the ...

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...a high school linguistics teacher. But translating the Chinese language for rich and fancy tourists wasn't something he...own translator be slapped for not knowing his own language. He opened his eyes again so he didn't...Zhou Mi. We don't even know the language.” Zhou Mi's eyes narrowed after he said ...Anyway, we weren't supposed to be their translators but having heard that they were famous singers,...

Sharing historical smut and fluff

...of Finland , written in mid-17th century (not the most accurate history of Finland ever written, but interesting in that it tells about how people saw their world in those times). The translators' foreword gave me a gigglefit though... see, I have the Finnish translation, and the foreword describes the difficulties they met when translating from antiquated Swedish. Occasionally, the job seems to ...

translators needed by nitaaj

Pro Freelance Projects http://pro-freelance.com http://pro-freelance.com/2009/11/translators-needed-by-nitaaj/ Tags: Our company needs much number of different types of translators to create huge multi-language site. We need people, which know very well any of this languages (and English): French, Italian, German, ...

Changing the sexist language of the Bible

...was written thousands of years ago, but whose language today is not considered politically correct. That’...or “brethren”, so the pastor uses inclusive language like ‘children of God’. While many Christians may...don't quibble with the intent of the translators, but it is more of an interpretation that...not only associate pastor, but a professor of language at Bethel College. He believes that because the...

Internet in China

...I, being me, began a dialog of sorts with one of chinaSMACK's primary, and I think founding, translators, a person with the screen name "Fauna." I asked her(?) about the Netizen response to President Obama's town hall meeting. She sent me a selection of links which led to English-language sites and translation blogs. Fascinating reading. (Yes, I will be working Saturday to make up the ...

Hello! I have a question (or, a handful of questions) for professional translators/interpreters: 1. Do you work full time? If you do freelance work is it hard to find enough work to live on? 2. If you are translating/interpreting into a language that is not your native tongue, do you find you are at a disadvantage? 3. Is it more advantageous to know three or ...

To the Chinese media, is Obama "aobama" or "oubama"?

... news article: A Mirror reporter spoke to noted ambassador and translator Guo Jiading (current vice-president of the Translators Association of China, former director of the foreign ministry's translation office, and a translator who worked with Zhou ... much of transliteration is making it sound like the original pronunciation, and how much is making it sound like a word in the receiving language?

Navajo Code Talkers break silence for Veterans Day

...Wednesday. The young Navajo Marines, using secret Navajo language-encrypted military terms, helped the U.S. ...an alarming rate because they had expert English translators. American forces then devised ever more complicated codes... The code, based on the ancient Navajo language, changed that. In the first 48 hours of...visit ground zero later in the day. "Our language was used to help win the war," ...