Hend
Found in Middle English and meaning ‘expert, skilful, clever’, hend comes from the word for ‘hand’, and originally meant ‘near at hand’. In a similar line are the words well-handed and habile.Read more…
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Oct
Oct
Ebola: A Crisis of Communications Over and over again, aid workers report that people do not have the knowledge they need to contain this deadly disease. In a major survey in Sierra Leone (late September) UNICEF found:
- 30% believed Ebola was transmitted via mosquitos; 30% believed it was an airborne disease
- 20% believed treatment by spiritual healers is effective
- 42% believed hot salt water baths are an effective cure
Aid workers know kissing deceased loved ones is a major cause of the epidemic (the virus is most potent right before and right after death). And yet the ritual continues. They also know epidemics can be reduced if the practice of eating bats (a delicacy in West Africa) is reduced or eliminated. Yet this knowledge is not effectively passed on to those who need it.
Why?
21
Oct
Oct
Internationalization (i18n)
The process of making a program localizable. This would cover work to allow for different fonts and charactersets to be displayed correctly. To allow for scripts that run from right-to-left, etc. This work is usually done once for a language, once the toolkits and programs support a language the internationalization work is usually complete.
Localization (l10n)
The process of taking an existing program or operating system and making it work in your language. This would include translating: interface and documentation, creating a locale file and the creation of fonts. It would not include changing the widget set or program operation to cater for your language, that work would fall under internationalization.
Source: Read the docs
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Oct
Oct
| Acrolinx |
| ApSIC Xbench |
| CrossTerm |
| FiveFilters |
| Lexicon, DejaVu (Atril) |
| MultiCorpora |
| qterm |
| SynchroTerm |
| Syn-Tactic |
| TaaS |
| TerMine |
| Webterm |
| UniTerm |
Read more: http://tinyurl.com/ko3fq2x
20
Oct
Bulgarian – English: EuroVoc BGEN Excel / EuroVoc BGEN .tbx
Oct
Two file types are available: Excel (.xlsx) or .tbx (the latter is in a .zip folder). Click on the desired file type(s) under the desired language pair to start the download.
Bulgarian – English: EuroVoc BGEN Excel / EuroVoc BGEN .tbx
Croatian – English: EuroVoc HREN Excel / EuroVoc HREN .tbx
Czech – English: EuroVoc CSEN Excel / EuroVoc CSEN .tbx
Danish – English: EuroVoc DAEN Excel / EuroVoc DAEN .tbx
Dutch – English: EuroVoc NLEN Excel / EuroVoc NLEN .tbx
Estonian – English: EuroVoc ETEN Excel / EuroVoc ETEN .tbx
Finnish – English: EuroVoc FIEN Excel / EuroVoc FIEN .tbx
French – English: EuroVoc FREN Excel / EuroVoc FREN .tbx
German – English: EuroVoc DEEN Excel / EuroVoc DEEN .tbx
Greek – English: EuroVoc ELEN Excel / EuroVoc ELEN .tbx
Hungarian – English: EuroVoc HUEN Excel / EuroVoc HUEN .tbx
Italian – English: EuroVoc ITEN Excel / EuroVoc ITEN .tbx
Latvian – English: EuroVoc LVEN Excel / EuroVoc LVEN .tbx
Lithuanian – English: EuroVoc LTEN Excel / EuroVoc LTEN .tbx
Maltese – English: EuroVoc MTEN Excel / EuroVoc MTEN .tbx
Polish – English: EuroVoc PLEN Excel / EuroVoc PLEN .tbx
Portuguese – English: EuroVoc PTEN Excel / EuroVoc PTEN .tbx
Romanian – English: EuroVoc ROEN Excel / EuroVoc ROEN .tbx
Serbian – English: EuroVoc SREN Excel / EuroVoc SREN .tbx
Slovak – English: EuroVoc SKEN Excel / EuroVoc SKEN .tbx
Slovenian – English: EuroVoc SLEN Excel / EuroVoc SLEN .tbx
Spanish – English: EuroVoc ESEN Excel / EuroVoc ESEN .tbx
Swedish – English: EuroVoc SVEN Excel / EuroVoc SVEN .tbx
Read more: http://tinyurl.com/lx7alt2
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Oct
Oct
Amit Agarwal created a Google Sheet that’s powered by Google Scripts, and translates all language pairs that are supported by Google Translate in real-time. This means that once you save a copy of the Google Sheet to your own Google Drive, you can share it with anyone who writes in another language and have a real-time chat within the document. Just enter your contact’s name along with yours in the cells provided, select each participants native language from a drop-down menu, and start typing in the colored fields.
Read more: http://tinyurl.com/opdwmdp
16
Oct
Oct
Researchers at Northern Illinois University say that prolonged the use of a tablet’s touch-screen keyboard can cause chronic shoulder pain.
Read more: http://tinyurl.com/pstksxo
16
Oct
Oct
Google this evening has announced a new Chrome extension that ties directly in with Google Translate. The new extension allows you to highlight a piece of text on a web page and then click the Translate icon that pops up. Alternatively, you can right-click on a phrase and choose “Google Translate” from the list of options.
Read more: http://tinyurl.com/lbm98jw
16
Oct
Oct
A major step in implementing the ETPN Translation Hub has been reached, with three European projects entering the finalisation stage of their EU Grant Agreements. The project ENATRANS is for networking of SMEs in the nano-biomedical sector and supporting the SMEs with getting their products from the laboratory phase to the clinical applications. The projects ‘NANOFACTURING’ and ‘NANOPILOT’ will establish pilot lines to scale-up the production of novel nanopharmaceuticals from the lab-scale to the quantities needed for clinical testing.
Read more: http://tinyurl.com/lqosjgk
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