Dirty Little Secrets for Translators

12
Sep

International Conferences 2014: October

Madrid (Spain), 1-3 October 2014: Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference

New York, NY (USA), 3-4 October 2014: 4th Annual Meeting of the Language and Social Interaction Working Group

São Carlos (Brazil), 6-8 October 2014: PROPOR 2014 – International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese

Tucson, AZ (USA), 6-11 October 2014: Digital Literacies in a beyond the L2 Classroom: A Hybrid Symposium on Research and Practice

Cluj-Napoca (Romania), 10 October 2014: La Traduction et l’interprétation de conférence à l’interférence des disciplines

Stockholm (Sweden), 10 October 2014: Making Terms Matter Again! – Exploring Terminology as a Valuable Information Asset

Gujrat (Pakistan), 15 – 16 October 2014: First International Conference: Translation and Gender Studies

Badajoz (Spain), 15-17 October 2014: Applied Cognitive Linguistics: New challenges – 9th AELCO International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics

Bucarest (Romania), 16 October 2014: Xe Journée scientifique Realiter: «La terminologie panlatine au service du citoyen»

Antwerp (Belgium), 16 – 17 October 2014: QUALETRA: Final Conference

Warsaw (Poland), 16 – 17 October 2014: East-Asian Encounters in Discourse Analysis, Translation and Language Teaching

Leipzig (Germany), 17-18 October 2014: Grammatical Hybridization and social conditions – Workshop

Poznań (Poland), 18-19 October 2014: 1st Poznan Conference of Celtic Studies

Riva del Garda, Trento (Italy), 19-23 October 2014: 13th International Semantic Web Conference

Logroño, La Rioja (Spain), 22-24 October 2014: International Symposium on Verbs, Clauses and Constructions

Athens, GA, (USA), 24-26 October 2014: 1st Interdisciplinary Conference in Linguistics at the University of Georgia

Vancouver (Canada), 27 – 28 October 2014: TAUS Annual Conference 2014, Bridging the Language Divide

Alicante (Spain), 28 – 30 October 2014: Phraseology, Variations / Diatopy, Translation. 5th Lucentino Conference

Manchester (United Kingdom), 29-31 October 2014: International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting: Intersect, Innovate, Interact – New Directions in Translation and Interpreting Studies

Amsterdam (Netherlands), 30-31 October 2014: SNOMED CT Implementation Showcase 2014: making health records make sense

Lisbon (Portugal), 30 – 31 October 2014): Moving Bodies across Transland

Innsbruck (Austria), 30 October – 1st November 2014:  2nd International Conference on Translation and Interpreting Studies “Translation Studies and Translation Practice”

San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Spain), 30 October – 1st November 2014: Mediterranean Editors & Translators Meeting 2014 – Innovation and tradition: mining the human resource

Cambridge, MA (USA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 31 October – 2 November 2014:45th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society

10
Sep

Free tests in 25 languages

Gothe Verlag offers free interactive tests in the following 25 languages:

Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

Read more: http://www.goethe-verlag.com/tests/

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