Multilingual search Swiss site

The Enigmatic Mermaid gives a detailed summary of a talk by Anthony Pym (online publications on his website) on Risk Analysis in the Translation Process.

Pym says you always need more information than what is in the translation. He likes parallel texts. Enig gives a link to a Swiss site that is set up to search for parallel texts in Google. It turns out to be the site of Tanya Harvey Ciampi, who has a Yahoo group called wwwsift, all about finding materials for translators on the Web. I found her original ideas and files more helpful than the list, which is more or less silent except when she occasionally posts a URL. She has some links that look good too.

Multilingual search Swiss site

The Enigmatic Mermaid gives a detailed summary of a talk by Anthony Pym (online publications on his website) on Risk Analysis in the Translation Process.

Pym says you always need more information than what is in the translation. He likes parallel texts. Enig gives a link to a Swiss site that is set up to search for parallel texts in Google. It turns out to be the site of Tanya Harvey Ciampi, who has a Yahoo group called wwwsift, all about finding materials for translators on the Web. I found her original ideas and files more helpful than the list, which is more or less silent except when she occasionally posts a URL. She has some links that look good too.

Lord Chancellor continued

The Lord Chancellor has not quite gone. Lord Falconer has become Lord chancellor but will be the last to hold the post, which is to disappear shortly. Reading various British papers online, it appears that the Cabinet reshuffle was hasty because Alan Milburn, the Health Secretary, suddenly resigned. Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, was intending to resign anyway. So plans in the pipeline were brought forward. According to the Telegraph Online (registration required, costs nothing),

bq. Tory peers accused the Government of announcing a constitutional upheaval “worked out on the back of an envelope”. The Earl of Onslow condemned it as “playing Pooh sticks with 800 years of British history”. Continue reading

Lord Chancellor continued

The Lord Chancellor has not quite gone. Lord Falconer has become Lord chancellor but will be the last to hold the post, which is to disappear shortly. Reading various British papers online, it appears that the Cabinet reshuffle was hasty because Alan Milburn, the Health Secretary, suddenly resigned. Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, was intending to resign anyway. So plans in the pipeline were brought forward. According to the Telegraph Online (registration required, costs nothing),

bq. Tory peers accused the Government of announcing a constitutional upheaval “worked out on the back of an envelope”. The Earl of Onslow condemned it as “playing Pooh sticks with 800 years of British history”. Continue reading

Criminal Justice Links / Links zu Strafjustiz

Via Handakte WebLAWg, a large set of links about U.S. criminal justice, criminology and so on, auf der Site von Dr. O’Conner, North Carolina Wesleyan College. In particular the college does an online course on forensic criminology, including a terrorism unit.

For the UK, there is a website of the Criminal Justice System. Leeds University has a site with a lot of international links, including links to German police sites.

Criminal Justice Links / Links zu Strafjustiz

Via Handakte WebLAWg, a large set of links about U.S. criminal justice, criminology and so on, auf der Site von Dr. O’Conner, North Carolina Wesleyan College. In particular the college does an online course on forensic criminology, including a terrorism unit.

For the UK, there is a website of the Criminal Justice System. Leeds University has a site with a lot of international links, including links to German police sites.