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Feb7Mon14:00 Forum on Innovation, technologie...Forum on Innovation, technologie...Feb 7 @ 14:00 – Feb 9 @ 12:00Among the highlights labeled «French Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2022», the Ministry of Culture, through the General Delegation to the French language and languages of France, is organizing the online Forum on Innovation, technologies and plurilingualism. Programme. … Continue readingFeb23Wed19:00 First Online Series on Translati...First Online Series on Translati...Feb 23 @ 19:00http://www.irscl.com/news/?p=1474 Funded by the Athena Swann Scheme in the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies at NUI Galway, six webinars on translation for children and young adults organised by Dr. Pilar Alderete Diez (NUI Galway) will take place … Continue reading19:00 La traducción del humorLa traducción del humorFeb 23 @ 19:00
Conversación entre Juan José Martínez Sierra y Caterina Riba (en español). Forma parte del ciclo de conversaciones en abierto Cápsulas de traducción. (Con inscripción previa.)Feb24Thu17:00 Decir lo mismo con otras palabra...Decir lo mismo con otras palabra...Feb 24 @ 17:00 – 18:00Campamento Norte organiza este taller en línea, dirigido por la escritora y traductora Ana Flecha. “En este taller hablaremos de traducción: qué es y en qué consiste. Exploraremos recursos, ideas y formas de abordar un texto para aprender a pensar … Continue reading -
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Category Archives: English
NFT, vax, perseverance, strollout, vaccine
What do these words have in common? They are the English words of the year 2021, as chosen by lexicographers and users of various eminent anglosphere dictionaries. NFT NFT is the Collins Dictionary word of the year 2021. NFT, the … Continue reading
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Four takeaways from the Peter Bush interview
Editor’s note: This text follows up on the Cápsulas online conversation between Peter Bush and Ronald Puppo of 16th November. Watch the full interview on YouTube. The last Cápsulas de traducción in the current series will take place tomorrow evening, Tuesday … Continue reading
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Métissage
Use of indigenous words rather than foreign loanwords, or vice versa, is a matter of personal preference. Both may have their attractions. The use of “hoard” rather than “collection”, or “make it up” rather than “invent”, reaffirms the writer’s Anglo-Germanic … Continue reading
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Leaning into the new academic year
Do you use the expression “lean in[to] [something]”? Do you know what it means? I have noticed this expression become more common in English over the past few years. I find this intriguing since the creation of a new phrasal … Continue reading
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Forty lost years
Peter Bush continues his output of translations of significant Catalan novels into English with the translation of Quaranta anys perduts (Rosa Maria Arquimbau, 1971), which is published tomorrow by Fum d’Estampa. From the publisher’s catalogue, we read: Published for the … Continue reading
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