Dirty Little Secrets for Translators

10
Sep

Apple iPhone 6 & Watch

Apple has unveiled the new iPhone 6 and larger iPhone 6 Plus handsets, as well as a smartwatch device.

Watch the Iphone 6 trailer here:
http://youtu.be/Nr0_byEB3bo

Watch the Apple Watch live here:
http://youtu.be/AKVESA7JwaM

09
Sep

International Conferences 2014: September

York (United Kingdom), 3 – 6 September 2014: 24th Conference of the European Second Language Association, Eurosla 24

Oxford (UK), 10 – 11 September 2014: Comparative Criticism and Translation

Jyväskylä (Finland), 10 – 12 September 2014: 2nd International Conference on Interactivity, Language and Cognition

Murcia (Spain), 10 – 12 September 2014: International Conference on Translation and Interpreting. Discussing Translation: Art, Mediation or Professionalization?

Geneva (Switzerland), 10 – 13 September 2014: 4th International Conference Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice

Poznan (Poland), 11 – 14 September 2014: Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea

York (United Kingdom), 12 September 2014: 2nd Postgraduate and Academic Researchers in Linguistics at York

Oslo (Norway), 15 – 17 September 2014: 11th International Conference on Romani Linguistics

Istanbul (Turkey), 16 – 17 September 2014: Transferring Cultural Images: Parallels between Stereotyping and Globalising

Montréal (Canada), 18-19 September 2014: The Language Industry Showcase 2014

Nitra (Slovakia), 18 – 20 September 2014: 18th Hungarian Sociolinguistics Conference

Tbilisi (Georgia), 18 – 20 September 2014: Literary Translation – a meeting place for Nations and Literature

Brașov (Romania), 19 – 20 September 2014: 3rd International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Structure, Use and Meaning Intercultural setting

Olomouc (Czech Republic), 19 – 20 September 2014: Interchange between Languages and Cultures: The Quest for Quality

Athens (Greece), 20-21 September 2014: IAPTI 2nd International Conference – The International Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters

Lublin (Poland), 22 – 24 September 2014: 2nd International Conference on Language skills: working with text and around text

São José do Rio Preto (Brazil), 22 – 26 September 2014: XXXIV Translator’s Week – International Translation Symposium

Rapallo (Italy), 25 – 26 September 2014: 1st International Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Immigration

Novi Sad (Serbia), 25 – 26 September 2014: Third IATIS Regional Workshop – Western Balkans. Translator and Interpreter Training

Lund (Sweden), 25 – 27 September 2014: 1st International Association for Cognitive Semiotics Conference

Kaunas (Lithuania), 26 – 27 September 2014: 6th International Conference Human Language Technologies: The Baltic Perspective

Warsaw (Poland), 26 – 27 September 2014: International Conference on Eyetracking and Applied Linguistics: Can these eyes lie? ICEAL 2014

29 – 30 September 2014: ProZ.com’s 2014 virtual conference for International Translation Day

08
Sep

electric – electrical – electronic

  • Electrical means of or relating to electricity, and it’s used for things that generate or process electricity—for example, electrical generators and electrical outlets. It’s also simply a broad term for anything that uses electricity.
  • Devices that run on electricity are electric—for example, electric lights, electric heaters, electric cars.
  • Electronic describes devices that manipulate electrical current internally through switches. It’s also used for virtual forms of things that were traditionally in the physical world, such as electronic stores and electronic books.

Source: Grammarist

07
Sep

Exchange books, advice, CAT licenses, etc.

IUntitled‘ve recently discovered the ProZ Exchange page where members can offer and request books, language training, CAT tools licenses, travel advice, TMs and more.

Read more: http://www.proz.com/?sp=exchange

 

06
Sep

ProZ survey for full-time translators

This survey is directed at full-time language professionals. Please take a few moments to complete the following survey on some aspects of your translation work.

Read more: http://www.proz.com/phpQ/fillsurvey.php?sid=749