In my work as a translator, I often hear people, due to an understandable unfamiliarity, tell me that they once again needed an “oral translation”. I then deduce that the concept of “interpretation” is not well-known and that is why people who are not part of this small world of translation tend to be so [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Oxford English Dictionary’
What is Interpretation?
Friday, October 30th, 2009The Million Word Followup
Thursday, June 11th, 2009As I mentioned earlier, the Global Language Monitor previewed the introduction of the one millionth word to the English language. Great publicity followed. They have returned two months later to declare that the one million word barrier has been surpassed. Fanfare abounds to celebrate this glorious day. And the GLM brand is once again associated [...]
Is 1,000,000 words possible?
Friday, April 3rd, 2009The Global Language Monitor, which was born from the ashes of yourdictionary.com, focuses on trends in the use of language, primarily through automatic algorithmic readings of texts on the web. The latest news from the site (and you’ll notice, should you visit the site, that most of the “news” on the homepage is articles where [...]
Sapir-Whorf and Experimentation
Thursday, January 15th, 2009If any of you languagephiles out there are not familiar with the Spair-Whorf hypothesis, it posits that the language a person speaks influences his or her thought patterns perception of the world. I have always found this fascinating for a variety of reasons, but especially when considering something like word order in the construction of [...]
New Words in English 2008
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008The Oxford English Dictionary, whose corpus of texts now contains over 2 billion words, recently released its list of new words for inclusion in the Eleventh edition in the Revised Edition of its Concise Oxford English Dictionary.
http://www.askoxford.com/worldofwords/newwords/?view=uk
Some of my thoughts:
“Best”, as used in phrases such as “best of breed” is [...]
