New Year’s resolutions
Considering the sleep habits of most translators, lawyers and academics, I think this humorous talk by Arianna Huffington, the founder …
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Conference – ‘Those Who Can, Teach’: Translation, Interpreting and Training
Saturday 10 November 2012 (date changed from Saturday 3 November) University of Portsmouth, UK These are challenging times for translator and interpreter …
Season’s Greetings
Dear Readers, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a relaxing and enjoyable festive period, whether …
Trilingual termbase for the Portuguese Parliament
The Textual and Terminological Database for the Portuguese Parliament [BDTT-AR] is the result of a collaboration between the Portuguese Parliament (Assembleia da …
Mixed metaphors
Not strictly a guest post, but a delightful nugget found and sent in to me by Mary Lynn, a former …
Collaboration or exploitation?
Something rather controversial for you today. The video presentation below discusses book digitization, use of crowd resources, and translation by …
OECD glossaries
For international lawyers and translators alike, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) publishes a number of comprehensive glossaries, …
New access to supreme court rulings in French
The Juricaf database has been freely accessible to the public since October this year, and includes almost 800,000 supreme court rulings …
Play with words and do some good in the world
“What if just knowing what a word meant could help feed hungry people around the world? Well, at FreeRice it …
Legal history, fish, olive oil and a call for papers
This post has a historical flavour, although it’s always surprising how much from the past is still relevant today… Call …
