Here is a German version of the U.S. Constitution including the amendments. Seems to be up to date – goes up to Amendment 27 (1992).
And here’s another from the US Embassy.

Spam lunchmeat, well-known even outside Britain through Monty Python, is fighting back to reclaim its trade mark, according to the Seattle Times (via Slashdot).

bq. Unable to stuff this problem back into the can, Hormel is instead doing what companies often do: asserting its trademark rights. Claiming dilution of the trademarked name Spam, the company has filed complaints against Spam Arrest, a Seattle technology company that provides spam-blocking software for e-mail users.

More links on Monty Python and the real thing in the Wikipedia. Many Spam links here, on Dan Garcia’s Spam Homepage too.

Spam lunchmeat, well-known even outside Britain through Monty Python, is fighting back to reclaim its trade mark, according to the Seattle Times (via Slashdot).

bq. Unable to stuff this problem back into the can, Hormel is instead doing what companies often do: asserting its trademark rights. Claiming dilution of the trademarked name Spam, the company has filed complaints against Spam Arrest, a Seattle technology company that provides spam-blocking software for e-mail users.

More links on Monty Python and the real thing in the Wikipedia. Many Spam links here, on Dan Garcia’s Spam Homepage too.

A typical translation problem on the pt mailing list yesterday: someone wanted to know what Ellenbeuge means. Four or five answered immediately: crook of the arm. He was still surprised it wasn’t in any of his dictionaries. No surprise: the word doesn’t exist – it should be Armbeuge.

We quite often have to deal with non-existent words in the original text.

A typical translation problem on the pt mailing list yesterday: someone wanted to know what Ellenbeuge means. Four or five answered immediately: crook of the arm. He was still surprised it wasn’t in any of his dictionaries. No surprise: the word doesn’t exist – it should be Armbeuge.

We quite often have to deal with non-existent words in the original text.

I was asked in a comment on the .. thread whether I would not normally have asked this in FLEFO, the CompuServe translators’ forum. The truth is that if I have a translation query I have to turn to somewhere where there is more than one person who might help. There are large numbers of mailing lists. Here is a question I posted on two mailing lists of networks of the British ITI (Institute of Translation and Interpreting):

bq. I am never happy with my rendering of schon deshalb. Can anyone suggest a good rendering? Here is an example:
Original:
An dieser Voraussetzung fehlt es hier schon deshalb, weil in dem Werbespot – insoweit vergleichbar einem Titelblatt – lediglich darauf aufmerksam gemacht wurde, daß sich die beworbene Zeitungsbeilage inhaltlich mit Marlene Dietrich als einer Person der Zeitgeschichte befaßt.

bq. Draft translation:
This requirement is not fulfilled in the present case if only because it was merely pointed out in the commercial that the newspaper supplement in question deals with Marlene Dietrich as a figure of contemporary history; here, it is similar to a title page. Continue reading →