Places are available on a course on The law of contract & civil liability, the English legal system, and the terminology of intellectual property run by David Hutchins, of Lexacom English Law Courses.
The same course will be held on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26 January 2014 in Nice, France, and again on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th February 2014, in central London, UK.
On 1 February 2014 the Syndicat national des traducteurs professionnels is organizing a seminar for interpreters on business and financial concepts (in French).
Here is a selection of popular posts from last year, just in case you missed anything.
I’m so happy to see that posts are read long after publication (indeed some of those below were published in previous years) – it’s satisfying to know that the blog forms an archive of information that people find useful to refer to.
By the way, I am reliably informed by my hosting platform that the number of countries in which the blog is read has increased from 168 to 185. Thanks to you all! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Following a French Act of 18 December 1998 on access to law, a new role of “assistant juridique” has been defined, and according to the late legal specialist Jean Carbonnier, such a person is an “adoucisseur du droit” [softener of laws].
To all of you that read this blog worldwide, with heartfelt thanks for following, for your comments and contributions, and wishing you a great year ahead. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Can’t get enough of this… 🙂
The European Union’s Directorate-General Translation hosted a forum last October for the EU language industry to discuss the sector’s added value and best practices. Its title was ‘Joining forces for a stronger language industry’.
The event brought together language-industry stakeholders (service providers, companies of all sizes that require or buy language services, associations of professionals, etc.).
Videos have now been made available online, so all those who were unable to attend the workshops in person can now listen to the discussions in the comfort of their own computer!
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is recruiting two senior translator/revisers in French, to work in Geneva, Switzerland.
Stridonium, the professional translators’ association (www.stridonium.com) is organizing three workshops featuring Stuart Bugg, who qualified as an English and New Zealand lawyer and now practises in Germany. The one-day sessions will be run in English.
Following on from past posts about readability – Translating through the fog; and The Writer’s Diet test; as well as a great guest post on Lessons in powerful writing (from a lawyer…) – last week I came across some new text analysis software in an article about a browser plug-in called Literatin, which provides a Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG) score.
Researchers from the University of Nottingham have calculated that the updated version of Google’s latest terms and conditions is harder to read than Beowulf or War and Peace. 😉
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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