Articles tagged "controlled language"
International English: Making A Case for Efficient and Clear Communication
Posted by Jody in Publications Archive on March 21st, 2009
This article examines the current climate for translation and the new and expanding market presented by globalization and the Internet. It discusses the need for a clear and concise form of English as a means of communicating information to both native and non-native speakers of English. It looks at areas where streamlined, “International English” is useful, and presents a number of ways of achieving this through style, grammar, and syntactic recommendations. Read the rest of this entry »
Translators to Face the Balka?
Posted by Jody in Publications Archive on March 21st, 2009
It seems that despite the 10-point plan outlined in the last issue to raise the profile of translators and interpreters we’re all doomed! Those clever eggs at HewlettPackard have come up with something that could conceivably see translation becoming a thing of the past, something to be looked back on fondly and studied in much the same way as scholars study Sanskrit. How you might ask? Well, what do you get if you cross English, Japanese and Esperanto? You get a hybrid, manufactured language called Computer Pidgin Language, CPL for short. Read the rest of this entry »
Translators to Face the Balka?
Posted by Jody in Publications Archive on February 18th, 2003
A magazine article examining the implications for human translators of a new controlled language aimed at improving machine translation.
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