The EU has diagrams with vocabulary on titles, subtitles, chapters etc. of legal instruments, in both English and German.
This applies only within the EU context. Outside that, the situation is much more complex.
Die EU hat Tabellen mit Wortschatz zu den Bestandteilen der Rechtsakte: Titel, Untertitel, Kapitel usw., auf Deutsch und Englisch.
Sie beziehen sich auf EU-Dokumente; außerhalb der EU ist die Situation komplizierter für Übersetzer. Continue reading
Via Marshall Fuss in alt.coffee (on Usenet), an article in The Onion finds that the majority of human discourse now occurs in online product reviews.
‘Duke sociology professor and study head Dr. Allan Piersall’ said, inter alia:
bq. “Not only was I impressed by the large number of people expressing themselves through the written word, but I was amazed by the sophistication of the rhetoric,” Piersall said. “In the same review, I saw examples of parallel construction, metaphor, and tautology, as well as standard debate devices like propositions of policy and use of evidenceall to support the argument that the Krups 872-42 Bravo Plus Espresso Maker is not worth the money.”
Via Marshall Fuss in alt.coffee (on Usenet), an article in The Onion finds that the majority of human discourse now occurs in online product reviews.
‘Duke sociology professor and study head Dr. Allan Piersall’ said, inter alia:
bq. “Not only was I impressed by the large number of people expressing themselves through the written word, but I was amazed by the sophistication of the rhetoric,” Piersall said. “In the same review, I saw examples of parallel construction, metaphor, and tautology, as well as standard debate devices like propositions of policy and use of evidenceall to support the argument that the Krups 872-42 Bravo Plus Espresso Maker is not worth the money.”
I am recovering from a day at the annual general meeting of the Bavarian chapter of the BDÜ (Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Übersetzer) typing up this blog with the Eurovision Song Contest in the background. I won’t offer a comparison of the two experiences.
The Wikipedia has nothing on the BDÜ but it has an entry on the Eurovision Song Contest. This was news to me (the second bit about the two-day event):
bq. Up until 2003 entry to the Eurovision song contest also requires the country to have performed with a reasonable amount of success for the previous few years. France, Germany, Spain and the UK automatically qualify.
bq. At the beginning of 2003 the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) decided to make the Eurovision Song Contest a two day event as from 2004. This means that the previous restrictions for countries to participate will be dropped. Any EBU member country will be able to participate in any given year. Continue reading
I am recovering from a day at the annual general meeting of the Bavarian chapter of the BDÜ (Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Übersetzer) typing up this blog with the Eurovision Song Contest in the background. I won’t offer a comparison of the two experiences.
The Wikipedia has nothing on the BDÜ but it has an entry on the Eurovision Song Contest. This was news to me (the second bit about the two-day event):
bq. Up until 2003 entry to the Eurovision song contest also requires the country to have performed with a reasonable amount of success for the previous few years. France, Germany, Spain and the UK automatically qualify.
bq. At the beginning of 2003 the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) decided to make the Eurovision Song Contest a two day event as from 2004. This means that the previous restrictions for countries to participate will be dropped. Any EBU member country will be able to participate in any given year. Continue reading
The main (but not only) subject of this weblog is legal translation from German to English (and sometimes vice versa).
Translators post queries and exchange information in many mailing lists, newsgroups and forums, both public and private, and I follow a number of those myself. However, I do not normally quote from those other places. I may give a sentence to give an impression of the forum when describing it I think that is fair use or I might quote myself if I gave the main answer, but again, I havent done that yet. Not only would it be unfair to the other forum, but the questions themselves are often private, in that translators have a duty of confidentiality towards their clients. Suppose I am translating a contract relating to a new kind of mayonnaise lets call it mustard mayonnaise – and theres some term relating to making mayonnaise that I dont understand and that isnt in the dictionaries. I might ask the question in a small mailing list. But I dont want to find the question repeated elsewhere, e.g. in Transblawg. Even if theres no harm in the discussion, what if the client happens to find out that the terminology has been quoted elsewhere? The client will no longer trust me to observe confidentiality.
If my theory is correct, then searching in Google for mustard mayonnaise (with or without inverted commas) should give a Transblawg hit perhaps not immediately, but in the next couple of days. How about mayonnaise alone (no inverted commas)?
Das Hauptthema dieses Weblogs ist deutsch-englische Übersetzung, meist von juristischen Texten.
Ich bin dabei, eine Seite über diesen Weblog zu verfassen, auf der ich ein paar Anmerkungen über Vertraulichkeit machen werde hoffentlich kürzer als dieses hier!
Ich zitiere andere Übersetzerforen meistens nicht. Ein Beispiel: wenn mein Kunde eine neue Art Mayonnaise einführt, die z.B. Senfmayonnaise heißt, und ich Schwierigkeiten bei der Übersetzung von Mayonnaise-Termini habe, stelle ich vielleicht eine Frage in eine Übersetzer-Mailingliste, aber ich möchte nicht, dass die Frage anderswo, z.B. in Transblawg, zitiert wird, sonst könnte mein Kunde dies erfahren und eventuell den Eindruck haben, ich sei nicht vertrauenswürdig.
Wenn meine Vermutung stimmt, dann dürfte eine Google-Suche nach mustard mayonnaise (mit oder ohne Anführungszeichen), vielleicht erst morgen oder übermorgen, direkt zu Transblawg führen.