Musings of the Mad Wordsmith (and other things)

This time it is Latin America - and I need a new reading list!! From Daily News : Latin American literature got a high spot at last Thursday...

From BBC: The European Commission has launched a recruitment drive for native English speakers, predicting a serious shortage of interpreter...

From the ABC: Lawyers for former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan have lost an appeal at the United Nations-backed genocide tribunal ...

Dublin - The mystery of Ireland's worst immigrant driver, a Pole logged on the police computer as Prawo Jazdy for more than 50 motoring ...

Abu Dhabi, 22nd Feb. 2009 (WAM) -- Secretary General of Sheikh Zayed Book Award Rashed Al Oraimi announced Saturday winners in two categorie...

An interesting insight into community interpreting in the USA. Oh, and please read the comments at the end of the article ! Charles Sheldon ...

It takes an English-only-speaker to do something like this in public :-)

From Press Telegraph, Long Beach CA: Q. A Google search turns up a director who criticizes your translation, comparing it unfavorably with t...

RED-FACED Whitehall bosses are spending £4m upgrading a new courts IT system – because it can’t translate documents into Welsh. But despite ...

ABSTRACT: "Language tests in immigration contexts typically perform a gate-keeping role in decisions about whether an applicant should ...

I heard it somewhere just a few months ago: translation agencies, squeezed by a diminishing market in the recession, will opt into selling ...

Translating religious texts has often been wrought with danger for the translator. William Tyndale's was the first English translation t...

In case you are asking why I am writing a sales pitch for a Kiwi company - I know Liz Seymour . She brought 4 of her staff to the AUSIT Bie...

..then you have seen nothing yet! For some, being killed because of taxation is a real threat. Form D/4a from the Iraqi Ministry of Finance ...

From Cape Town with love - some comments on how the very idiomatic expressions in isiXhosa are being translated in mass media into English...

What does Bill Jemas know about Biblical Hebrew? So he has a Juris Doctor from Harvard. And he brought Marvel Comics back from the dead by...

The perpetual error in Spanish that seems to beleaguer English-speakers. An election campaign poster for a Council candidate in Corona, Quee...

George Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author, most recently, of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, which won sev...

OK, I don't like Ratzinger . We have family reasons dating from early 1940s not to. So when an article about Catholic-Jewish reconciliat...

Coleman Barks, Rumi's most popular "translator" in the USA, can neither read nor speak Farsi. Being a poet himself, Barks “re-...