Whistleblowers: Sibel Edmonds

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Thanks to Bootheando, once again, this time for the publication of a post on Sibel Edmonds, an FBI language specialist (Persian, Turkish, English and Azerbaijan), with a BA in criminal justice and psychology, MA in public policy and international commerce and founder and director of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC).

Read this interview in the Armenian Weekly Online conducted in English. Translate it into Spanish and check your translation against this one by Martin: Entrevista exclusiva con Sibel Edmonds.

Mistranslations

By natalia & gabriel

 
Reading Bootheando about  the imminent closure* of Westminster University Interpreting course , one of the best in the world, I came across this great resource for Translation: Exploring Translation. The first exercises are about the differences between interpreting and translating and machine translation. They include video clips to comment

Check the Spanish examples. They are great to get you thinking about  comparative grammar/structure and literal translating errors. It will help you too with translation commentary.

*Visit the facebook page set for comments and support

Some Points of Ethics in Translation

Thinking about issues of  ethics regarding translators (ethics test coming soon!), I have come across a couple of blog entries by Rose Newell (German/English translator):

• The Ethics of Proofreading
• The Ethics of Translation Blogging

Read them carefully and note all the different issues treated here: plagiarism, unethical translators claiming to work for other translators found on professional websites, negative proofreaders, etc.

Check her ten points towards ethical proofreading.

Send me/your teacher a summary of what you've learnt from reading the blog posts linked above an refer to the code of ethics relevant to the issues mentioned.

La mejor traducción-The Best Translation

Once again Bootheando publishes a very interesting entry on how to search for the best meaning of a difficult word of expression.
Check the entry in this post. Look for the expressions we were discussing in class today: aggregate marks, partnership (between home and school), remedial classes.
This could be our first competition for 2011. If you want to translate into English, I'll publish the best translation in this blog.

You can read our last competition's winner in the post Where are the Cockneys? Translated by Simon Wright.
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The picture below illustrates the translation of the passive voice from English into Spanish impersonal/pasiva refleja.

New RAE Orthography

Parramatta new cathedral: Can you spot the incongruency?

Consistency of style? Check the question above the picture and tell us what you think in comments.

We were talking about the new orthography changes to come after the 1-4 November meeting by academics of the Spanish language in its birthplace, San Millán de la Cogolla. Before we get the new Orthography by the Real Academia de la Lengua Española, you can check the forum discussions in proz and also know that you can find the old one in our wiki's sidebar.

photo © 2005 Toprural | more info (via: Wylio)

Colocaciones en español

Thanks to Bootheando for informing us about the links below. They are all in Spanish and deal with the topic of collocations in Spanish.
Bootheando  sigue inspirándonos con la publicación de un artículo sobre colocaciones con un par de enlace interesantes:

• DICE Diccionario de colocaciones del Español de la Universidad de la Coruña

• Enlace al blog de Alberto Bustos, que ha publicado un libro electronico en su Blog de Lengua Española bajo la  licencia Creative Commons Reconocimiento-No comercial-Sin obras derivadas 3.0. Ello quiere decir que podemos incrustarlo (embed) en nuestro blog o imprimirlo, siempre que lo usemos sin fines lucrativos.
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Where are the Cockneys? Translated by Simon Wright

The winner of our first challenge to translate one post from bootheando is Simon Wright, who translated the post Donde está el Cockney? .

Read Simon's translation, Where are the Cockneys?, and think of the techniques he has used. What problems did he face? What choices were there for him? What were his final solutions and why?

Read the CVC article on jaifacan and the other links posted in bootheando.

Finally, check this out: Bootheando in australiano!

Keep watching this space for our next winner!