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Tony Bennett Video at St. Jude Gala Organized by Trusted Translations

On May 28, 2009, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, featuring special guest Tony Bennett, held a black tie, red carpet event to help raise funds. The charity event was organized

June 15, 2009

The Celtic Languages: the Richness of the Isles

As we saw in a recent post, Celtic languages are a subfamily of the Indo-European languages. The Celts were the first inhabitants of central-southern Europe, around the 5th century BC.

June 12, 2009

The Use of the Dash in English and Spanish

This punctuation mark is, in Spanish, the equivalent to parentheses, though it does have one function that differs: marking off asides that are suggestive, ironic, or emotional, and the effect

June 12, 2009

The Symbolic Power of Words

This blog is not a forum for furthering political agendas of any kind, and that is absolutely not the intention of this particular post. What I am interested in pointing

June 11, 2009

The Million Word Followup

As I mentioned earlier, the Global Language Monitor previewed the introduction of the one millionth word to the English language. Great publicity followed. They have returned two months later to

June 11, 2009

New Language Toy (Wordnik)

I was sent over to Wordnik.com yesterday and all productive plans I had were immediately dashed and replaced with “let’s see what it says about this word…” Wordnik’s purpose is

June 9, 2009

Chairman’s Speech at St. Jude Wine and Chocolate with Tony Bennett and Kristin Davis

I would like to thank everyone for coming tonight to support this great cause. Many people have come from very distant places to be here, including Brazil. In fact, I

June 8, 2009

Synesthesia Revisited: What’s the Word I’m Looking For?

In a previous post of mine I mentioned the intriguing and perplexing condition of synesthesia, noting that it only affects a very tiny portion of the total population. Nonetheless, much

June 5, 2009

Contemporary Theories on Translation: Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz asserts that language is, above all, translation (translation and literature are synonyms). Translation is always a literary operation, since it is an artistic or scientific work as it

June 4, 2009

Book Club Meeting #1

(And there’s enough time before Christmas for me to throw this on the wish list…finding this under my tree would instantly move the responsible commenter to #1 on the “Best

June 1, 2009

When Speaking the Same Language Doesn’t Mean Being Able to Communicate

Today we’ll shift gears a bit and recommend a highly awarded film: “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,” directed by Wayne Wang. It earned itself the distinction of Best Film

May 29, 2009

Unit of Translation

Units of translation depend on the text itself, i.e. to what point can I understand the meaning. Both the word and the sentence, the period and the paragraph must be