Korea: Investigations of translators of report on mad cow disease

The Seoul Central District Prosecutors` Office investigating the distortion of the safety of U.S. beef by MBC’s in-depth investigative program “PD Notebook” has concluded in its interim probe results that the program either stretched the facts or intentionally edited certain contents.

At a briefing Tuesday, prosecutors said, “Reviews on U.S. media reports and related data, and [...]

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Hungary: Changes to spelling rules

Hungarian linguists prepare for national spelling reform

Linguists of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are preparing to make changes to the spelling rules of the Hungarian language – a code which has not been amended since 1984, the daily Nepszabadsag reported on Tuesday.
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Following a meeting in June, the Hungarian language committee of the Academy will sit [...]

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Dostoevsky translators got it wrong

Those famous brothers have the wrong name
Dostoevsky’s last, longest and possibly greatest novel has been known for nearly 130 years in English as The Brothers Karamazov. Sadly, this is wrong. It should be called The Karamazov Brothers. At least, so argues Ignat Avsey in his translator’s note for the Oxford University Press edition of the [...]

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Armenia to develop legal terminology

The Executive body of Armenia has made a decision to start a state order on establishing information system development, legal terminology and “Official Statements” web site, reported the press service of the Government.
In 2008 the expenses have been distributed as following: legal terminology: 13000.0 thousands drams, development of information system: 23000.0 thousands drams and establishment [...]

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Greece: No translator in “humanitarian crisis” at migrant camp

Greece is locking hundreds of migrants in an overcrowded centre on the Mediterranean island of Lesbos without proper sanitation and medical care in what French charity Medicins Sans Frontiers branded a “humanitarian crisis”.
The migrants, most of them from war-torn Afghanistan, are kept in rooms clogged with stagnant water and only allowed outside for half an [...]

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Sri Lanka: Number of qualified translators declining

his month, July, the 25th anniversary of July 83, has quite appropriately seen significant commentary in the press over the interrelated themes of the war, its character or its perceived character, and contending interpretations of Sri Lankan identity. In 2001, in an essay entitled “The Sources of Intractability”, published in Ethnic Studies Report, the journal [...]

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Sólo hablo español

‘I’m sorry’, sólo hablo español
Casi el 50% de los españoles no conoce idiomas extranjeros.- Manchegos, andaluces y cántabros, los que menos saben

El español es el único idioma que conoce la mitad (49,7 %) de los españoles. Un estudio de la Fundación de las Cajas de Ahorros (FUNCAS) así lo desvela. También apunta que no conocen [...]

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Lenguas y políticas en Argentina y el Mercosur

Seminario

Lenguas y políticas en Argentina y el Mercosur

Buenos Aires, 11 al 13 de agosto de 2008
Sede Centro Cultural Borges

La crisis del año 2001 en Argentina puso en evidencia la necesidad de un profundo cambio de rumbo en el país. No se trataba solamente de ensayar un nuevo modelo productivo, o una [...]

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Prospectos plurilingües: útiles pero no prioritarios

La riqueza cultural y lingüística de España tiene “efectos secundarios” en todos los asuntos, como en los prospectos de los medicamentos. El idioma utilizado es el castellano, olvidando otros como el gallego, euskera y catalán. Los expertos coinciden en apoyar todo lo que mejore la comprensión de la sociedad, pero ¿es lo prioritario? Este texto, [...]

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Martínez de Sousa denuncia el «abuso» que viven los traductores

El escritor José Martínez de Sousa ha denunciado esta mañana la situación de “abuso” que sufren los traductores, ya que asumen funciones en la edición de los libros “que no les corresponden”.

Martínez de Sousa ha hecho estas declaraciones en la conferencia inaugural del Curso de “Corrección de Textos” organizado por la Fundación del Español Urgente [...]

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