Interview with Henry Pavlovich on chartered linguists

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Céline has posted an interview with Henry Pavlovich from the latest edition of The Linguist. He mentions the criteria being discussed.

As this is an achievement and mark of approbation for the profession of linguists as a whole, membership of any ONE approved professional body in the language field (eg IoL, ITI, AIIC) will be sufficient.

This still begs the question of why a charter should be granted to the profession of linguist, which I take to mean language teacher, translator or interpreter (in the USA it would be taken to mean a specialist in linguistics too).

Those who think it would be good to be a chartered translator still think it odd that the IoL should have the charter, since the ITI came into existence, apparently, because the IoL thought the translators’ group in the IoL was getting a bit above itself.

Baking host wafers / Hostienbäckerei

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Things have obviously changed a lot in the past two thousand years.

These people produce 3.5 million host wafers a year and have baked 653,000 for the World Youth Day (sic) in Cologne.

Varensell Abbey

In unserer Hostienbäckerei werden alle gängigen Oblatentypen hergestellt:
* dünne, weiße Priesterhostien mit Kreuzsymbol und Brechzeichen
* dünne, weiße Laienhostien mit Kreuzsymbol
* Brothostien mit 6,5 cm Durchmesser (Priesterhostien)
* Brothostien als Laienhostien
* Brothostien für die Konzelebration: Durchmesser 9 cm und 12 cm und 20 cm
* Es können auch ganze Brotplatten zum Brechen (z. B. für Gruppenmessen) bestellt werden: 25 x 30 cm.

bq. Auf Bestellung liefern wir für Zöliakiekranke glutenarme Oblaten, die gebacken werden aus der Weizenstärke „Cerestar“.

(Deutscher Kurzbericht)

The Devil’s Infosec Dictionary

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Dictionary

24/7
adj. The window of time in which systems are most vulnerable to attack

Access Control List (ACL)
The operating system file that gives users access to files and programs they have no good reason to access

Analyst, security
A mercenary paid vast sums of money to tell you that your systems can’t be secured

Back door
A hacker’s front door

Backup
A process you don’t need until you don’t do it

(Via Onze Taal, via langwich sandwich)

Weblogs that have nothing to do with legal translation

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Drones Club, EN, by Cornelius Bear, is a spoof foodie blog (via Appetites, which isn’t, and which is written by a lawyer).

English Cut, EN, is the blog of Thomas Mahon, a bespoke tailor of Savile Row and points north.

Bento moblog consists of photos of bento lunches.

Der Shopblogger, DE, reports on the life of a supermarket manager.

Making Light, EN, the blog of Theresa Nielsen Hayden , an editor. Her latest entry is on the Litte Lytton, a competition for writing bad first sentences.