European conquest during the 17th to 19th centuries created a classic scenario for the emergence of new language dialects called pidgins and creoles out of trade between the aborigine inhabitants and aliens. The naming ‘pidgin’ is possibly a distortion of English business and the term ‘creole’ was used in relation to a non-native person born […]
Translating of children’s books rises particular challenges owing to some special characteristics of children’s readings and qualities of child audience. The situation that children’s literature tends to have a distant position in cultures and disadvance from lack of prestige makes it possible to manipulate materials translated for children in different ways to enable them accord […]
National lingua academies had their beginning in the Renaissance, when the debut such academy, the Italian Accademia della Crusca, was set up in 1584. The Academie Francaise appeared in 1635, and the Real Academia Espanola in 1713, establishing a tradition which has gone on into nowadays; the Polish Language Academy was, inter alia, established in […]
Translation is the activity that renders knowledge, whether literary or scientific, a mobile nature of culture. Such mobility, in turn, is what gives human understanding a deep and lasting influence beyond the borders of its primary setting. Discussions related to the theory, practice, and history of translation have preferred to pay attention on literary […]
Translation memory (TM) techniques, the most widely used toolkits in the localization of digital information at HQ-translate agency, enable the proofreading and cultural accommodation of electronic content (e-content) for local markets. The idea behind TM systems is to store in a computer system the original e-content and the translation that has been produced by human […]