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Might there be certain individuals or groups of individuals who naturally have a highly developed sensibility to audience and social situation, without having formal translation experience? The logical response as to who these individuals might be is those individuals who frequently have to adapt their speech or change their language for different audiences and contexts.

The first group of such people I can think of is politicians, who have developed the capacity to change not only their accent or register, but even their discourse. Politicians, however, are unlikely to begin translation careers. Another group I can think of, however, is bidialectal African-American English (AAE) (or Ebonics) speakers. Bidialectal African-American English (AAE) speakers, who naturally speak a minority social dialect, are especially aware of and used to choosing between AAE and SAE according to audience and situation. AAE speakers are especially attentive to audience and situation because their native tongue is generally stigmatized in the larger U.S. society, and the consequences of inattentiveness may be severe (unemployment, poverty, neglect, injustice). Since there is relatively little demand for AAE-SAE translation, these speakers would have to be proficient in another language, such as Spanish or Chinese, which has a lot of demand for translation to English – SAE English that is.

Any other “natural” translators??

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2.    Open the Workbench. Go to OPTIONS, and then go to TERM RECOGNITION OPTIONS and select your version of MultiTerm.

3.    Click on EXAMINE and with a click on the + sign select the local termbase. Select the source and target languages.

4.    When you click ACCEPT, you Hill see the MultiTerm window in the Workbench (in the extreme right).

5.    Now you can work. When you open a document, the saved glossary terms Hill appear in this MultiTerm window. If you notice that nothing appears in the MultiTerm window during too many segments of the translation, it’s possible that the MultiTerm has been disconnected. Open MultiTerm again or the Workbench.

6.    In the tool bar of Trados you will see new buttons, those of MultiTerm.

7.    If you click the middle button of those that have red brackets above (get current term), the program will insert the term as if it were a segment.

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These are the homes of the main sites in those languages, as well as a short description of each site in its language.

• Portuguese Site:

Tradução
Líder em Traduções de Português: Trusted Translations, Inc. Traduções de português de qualidade ao melhor preço, realizadas por tradutor/equipes de tradução especializados.

• French Site:

Traduction
Leader en traduction en français: Trusted Translations, Inc. Des traductions en français de qualité aux meilleurs prix réalisées par des équipes de traducteurs spécialisés.

• Dutch Site:

Vertaling
Leider in Nederlandstalige Vertaling: Trusted Translations, Inc. Nederlandstalige kwaliteitsvertalingen door gespecialiseerde vertalersteams tegen de beste prijs.

• Italian Site:

Traduzione
Azienda Leader nella Traduzione in Italiano: Trusted Translations, Inc. traduzioni in italiano di qualità e ai migliori prezzi, effettuate da team di traduttori esperti.

• German Site:

Übersetzung
Führend auf dem Gebiet von Übersetzungen aus dem Deutschen: Trusted Translations, Inc. Übersetzungen von höchster Qualität aus dem Deutschen, angefertigt von professionellen Fachübersetzer-Teams zu besten Preisen.

• Japanese Site:

翻訳
リーズナブルな料金でご提供する経験豊かな翻訳家チームによる確かな品質の日本語翻訳。

• Chinese Site:

翻譯
专家级翻译团队以最优价格提供高质量中文翻译

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The most well-known case (and least surprising to anyone familiar with stereotypes of the French) is that of France, with the Toubon Law of 1994 which mandates the use of French in all government documents, commercial contracts, commercial communications and advertising. In 2006, Malaysia began fining those who mix English words into Malay – so-called Manglish – in advertising and Iran it was decreed that all adopted foreign words be replaced with Persian equivalents (with the exception of Arabic, since it is the language of the Koran).

This week I’ve read that the ruling Christian Democrats of Germany are trying to enshrine the German language in their federal constitution as the country’s official language in order to protect the national language. Again, the main concern is the increasing use of English words. According to a study by Hanover University, cited by the December 16th The Independent article, “23 of the 100 currently most-used words in German were in fact English”.

There must be many other examples, but will any of them successfully ward of the apparent forces of language change and anglicization? Only time will tell.

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A few decades ago, before there was such a thing as advanced technology, translators worked only with pen and paper. Research was a very difficult aspect, since it required a lot of effort to access texts from other parts of the world. In addition, those were different times, since the translations had to be written out by hand or, even better, on a typewriter. Finding out that some friend or acquaintance was traveling to another country was a big deal, since this gave the translator the perfect opportunity to get his or her hands on priceless material. Informational material handed out by certain foreign companies was also of great value.

Today this reality has changed. In certain ways we have become salves to technology. By this I only mean that a translator who does not have at least a fundamental understanding of software and other technological aspects of the job will not see as many opportunities. To work with a variety of clients, be it with companies or with translation agencies, we need to be well-versed in the finer workings of programs such as Acrobat, Excel, Word, Multiterm, Trados, among other. For this reason, it is highly important that we are certified in these tools. If we are already working with these software programs, we have to stay constantly up to speed on the latest features and changes. Unfortunately, a translator who fails to stay updated on technological issues will fall behind the rest.

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As professional translators and people interested in someday running our own agency, this tells us a few things:

First, have more than one person who understands the target language look at what is being sent along, especially if it is being used for publication in a place where many, many people can see it.

Second, if a translator you normally work with sends you a translation with no additional comment, confirm that it is a translation and not an automatic message or something that they otherwise sent without thinking.

Third, if you’re generally working with one specific language pair (here, Welsh-English), make sure that your emails are correctly in both, in case someone is looking to contact you from either end.

Last, learn from your mistakes or those of others…mistakes like these can only be prevented by thorough attention to detail from every party involved.

There are dozens and dozens of errors like this out there…don’t have me add yours to the list later…

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2.    Choose the folder in which you want to save the database and click ACCEPT.

3.    The Termbase Wizard will open. Click NEXT.

4.    Select the option LOAD AN EXISTING TERMBASE DEFINTION FILE. Click BROWSE… to search for the .xdt file in your system. Once you’ve found and selected the file, click NEXT.

5.    Write the name and, if you wish, the description of the termbase. Click NEXT.

6.    The languages of the termbase are already preconfigured in the .xdt file. Therefore, don’t do anything and directly click NEXT.

7.    The descriptive fields of the termbase are already preconfigured in the .xdt file. Therefore, don’t do anything and directly click NEXT.

8.    In this step the entry structure is configured, but it isn’t necessary to do anything. Directly click NEXT.

9.    Wizard has finished. Click FINISH.

10.    The MultiTerm window opens with the termbase just created.

11.    In order to import the glossary terms, go to TERMBASE > IMPORT ENTRIES… > PROCESS…

12.    Click BROWSE… to search for the .xml file. The log file path is created automatically. Click NEXT.

13.    Write the name of the exclusion file. This file will include the invalid entries or those that present problems during the importing process. Click NEXT.

14.    A summary of the previous steps appears. Click NEXT.

15.    When the program finishes importing, click NEXT.

16.    Click FINISH and then ACCEPT.

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Historically, technological advances tended to increase the social and economic phenomena to talk about thus requiring new words, new phrases or semantic expansion of old words and phrases as well as to increase contact between peoples and the consequent impacts of such contact (and domination). These types of changes are obviously still occurring today and doing so on a greater scale. The contemporary extinction of minority languages and expansion of dominant languages, especially English, are the most drastic and sensational of the latter type of changes, and new words/phrases such as “google” (transitive verb), “infomania”, “hypermiling”, and “password fatigue” are interesting examples of the former type (of which Webster’s New World Dictionary language monitoring program finds about 2,000 examples a month).

In addition to these types of language changes, however, there is another speculated, if not evidenced, change that seems entirely novel, which we might call the minimization, the simplification or the “dumbing down” of language. This process is the speculated consequence of a new generation of speakers who have developed their daily use of language significantly, if not predominantly, through chat rooms and text messaging rather than through books, lectures, radio and face-to-face conversations. It is to be seen of course just how serious this process might be and the labeling of it as “dumbing down” or “making more efficient” (i.e., linguistic economy) may be more of a matter of value judgment than description.

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