Resources from Pearl Linguistics

Articles and Papers

Happy Birthday Learn to say Happy Birthday in 75 languages.
One More Beer Learn to say 'One more beer' in 50 languages.
Why can't a computer translate more like a person? Alan K. Melby, 1995
Advantages and disadvantages of translation memory A Cost/Benefit Analysis, Lynn E. Webb, 1998-2001
Translation of Proper Names - Part 1 What's in a Name: Juliet's Question Revisited by Verïnica Albin (Freelance medical translator. Teacher of advanced translation, cross-cultural communication, and medical Spanish. ATA's language chair, co-chair, and deputy chair.)
Translation of Proper Names - Part 2 Does Juliet's Rose, by Any Other Name, Smell as Sweet? by Verïnica Albin (Freelance medical translator. Teacher of advanced translation, cross-cultural communication, and medical Spanish. ATA's language chair, co-chair, and deputy chair.)
A Little Conversation about Tone and Translation by Prof. Ruy Vasconcelos de Carvalho
An Easy Translation Job by Danilo Nogueira (Professional translator, editor, writer, consultant, trainer, Brazil)
Globalisation and Translation A discussion of the effect of globalisation on today's translation by Nico Wiersema (MA in Translation Studies. Professor of English and Dutch. Specializes is literary translation.)
Hermeneutics and Translation Theory by Aiwei Shi (M.A. in English Linguistics and Literature Xinzhou Teachers University Shanxi, China)
Going Broke in Brazil by Danilo Nogueira (Professional translator, editor, writer, consultant, trainer, Brazil)
The Business of Translating by Danilo Nogueira (Professional translator, editor, writer, consultant, trainer, Brazil)
His Excellency and His Interpreter by Danilo Nogueira (Professional translator, editor, writer, consultant, trainer, Brazil)
What Every Novice Translator Should Know by Antar Solhy Abdellah (Ph.D. on a translation programme for pre-service language teachers Qena faculty of Education, South Valley University, Egypt)
Translation Tools Today: A Personal View by Danilo Nogueira (Professional translator, editor, writer, consultant, trainer, Brazil) top
It's a Small World by Steve Vlasta Vitek (Magister of Arts, A freelance technical translator from Japanese, German, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Polish and French into English, USA)
Reflections of a Human Translator on Machine Translation or Will MT Become the "Deus Ex Machina" Rendering Humans Obsolete in an Age When "Deus Est Machina?" by Steve Vlasta Vitek (Magister of Arts, A freelance technical translator from Japanese, German, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Polish and French into English, USA)
Style and Stylistic Accommodation in Translation by Aiwei Shi (M.A. in English Linguistics and Literature Xinzhou Teachers University Shanxi, China)
The Changing World of Japanese Patent Translators by Steve Vlasta Vitek (Magister of Arts, A freelance technical translator from Japanese, German, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Polish and French into English, USA )
The Language of Inflation Traps in Translating Brazilian Portuguese by Danilo Nogueira (Professional translator, editor, writer, consultant, trainer, Brazil)
The Use of Transition Notes in Learning English & Translation by Ibrahim Saad (B.A. in English Language and Literature from Cairo University, M.Ed. from Manchester University, M.A. in Translation from Salford University, Ph.D. in translation from the faculty of Arts, Manchester University Professor at Ajman University (UAE), Teaching Translation)
Useful Machine Translations of Japanese Patents Have Become a Reality by Steve Vlasta Vitek (Magister of Arts, A freelance technical translator from Japanese, German, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Polish and French into English, USA)
Wordfast: A quick and inexpensive way to translate by Reed James (Freelance translator, Spanish-English Santiago, Chile)
Working in Brazil by Danilo Nogueira (Professional translator, editor, writer, consultant, trainer, Brazil)
Bibliography on the Profession of Interpretation by Heltan Y.W. Ngan, Ph.D. (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

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