http://www.inttranews.net/ News Site for Linguists, Interpreters, Translators, Teachers, Translation Project Managers, Students http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=42678 California, USA (Courthouse News): A Los Angeles Superior Court interpreter filed a class action claiming the court subjects her and other interpreters to racial discrimination, saying their foreign national origins are "highlighted by the nature of their work." Alicia Grubic sued the court, presiding Judge Stephen Czuleger and head clerk John Clarke, claiming the court pays interpreters less than other court employees and keeps them from advancing, because interpreters are "overwhelmingly non-native-born members of minority national/ethnic groups." Grubic says court supervisors associate and identify interpreters with the "foreign-born monolingual criminal defendants" they work with. For more information, please visit: www.courthousenews.com/2009/07/02/Interpreters_Accuse_L_A_Superior_of_Racism.htm Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:26:01 +0200 http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=42677 New York, USA (NY Times): Take a book originally in Swedish, like Stieg Larsson’s wonderful Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. If somebody translates it into Dutch, the relatively small number of Dutch-speakers means that the market for the translation will be much smaller — and the royalties and profits smaller too — than the market for an English translation. These smaller returns attract translators who are not as good as those attracted into translating a book into English; the supply curve of translators is upward-sloping. For more information, please visit: freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/how-the-market-influences-what-language-you-read-in/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:25:36 +0200 http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=42676 New York, USA (NY Times): Mr. Rohde, 41, did not discuss details of his abduction or of his escape on June 19. But he allowed that Mr. Ludin had told the hostage takers that if they wanted to chop off Mr. Rohde’s head, they would have to chop off his own first. It was a chilling reminder of the dangers of reporting in Central Asia, where Daniel Pearl of The Wall Street Journal was murdered and beheaded in 2002. Mr. Rohde spoke of Mr. Ludin’s bravery and said he represented true Islam and not the “twisted” form of their captors, whose hard-line interpretation of religion, he said, made them less humane. For more information, please visit: cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/to-applause-reporter-who-escaped-taliban-visits-newsroom/?scp=2&sq=rohde&st=cse Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:24:51 +0200 http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=42675 London, UK (PC World): Spain has traditionally been the most opposed to the Community Patent, especially in recent years when the idea of automated translations of patents for all but the three official languages of the European Patent Office (English, French and German) has been accepted by a large majority of E.U. countries. Sweden's readiness to push for a breakthrough both on the Community Patent and the single litigation area was both welcomed and dismissed by lobby groups following the issue. For more information, please visit: www.pcworld.com/article/167772/sweden_aims_high_for_creation_of_a_single_eu_patent_system.html Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:24:15 +0200 http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=42674 Noida, India (BigNews): To cater to business needs in the Software Testing industry, QA InfoTech is offering Internationalization Testing Service. Through this service they aim to remove the language barrier of the software. They test the software well so as to ensure that it is properly internationalized or globalized. For more information, please visit: www.bignews.biz/?id=805336&keys=Testing-services-improvedfunctio-ProductTesting Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:23:46 +0200 http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=42673 California, USA (Macfixit): OS X supports displaying core system components in most common languages. This support also extends to third-party applications, where developers can add localization to easily implement multi-language support in their applications. Through juggling language preferences both for the system and for individual applications and components, you can set up personalized ways to handle languages in your computer. For more information, please visit: www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20090702161741495 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:22:24 +0200 http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=42672 London, UK (PR Inside): One year after the original launch of its reference guide "Financial Communication: Framework and Practices", the Observatoire de la Communication Financière ("OCF") has published a 2009 online edition enriched and updated with the latest regulatory developments. The new edition will be presented today by the members of the OCF during its "Economic crisis: impacts on financial communication" workshop held at the Pavillon d'Armenonville as part of the Paris Europlace international forum. For more information, please visit: www.pr-inside.com/release-of-a-new-and-updated-r1360390.htm Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:21:55 +0200 http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=42671 Auckland, New Zealand (Herald): A former University of Auckland professor is celebrating publication of the final instalment of a medical book he and a former colleague spent more than 20 years translating from Latin into English. Emeritus Professor John Carman and Dr William Richardson began translating Andreas Vesalius's Humani Corporis Fabrica (On The Fabric of the Human Body) in 1981. For more information, please visit: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10582186 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:21:25 +0200