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Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
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Beyond Words explores our experiences with language, culture, and the world through our day-to-day interactions.
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- Added on: Oct 24th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
New Resource For Legal Translators
A new online resource for legal interpreters and translators has recently become available thanks to Vancouver Community College. A team of language professionals collaborated to compile an online legal dictionary consisting of 5000 Canadian legal a...
More Gift Ideas for Language Lovers
Last year, Beyond Words brought you a December article filled with affordable gift ideas for language lovers. Below is an updated list of ideas to satisfy the linguaphiles on your shopping list this holiday season. Body Language Cards These fun, a...
Happy Hanukkah! or Chanukah! or Chanukkah?:How to Spell The Festival of Lights
Today at sundown marks the beginning of Hanukkah, the eight day Jewish Festival of Lights. Instituted to celebrate the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, the festival is observed by lighting the eight candles in a menorah, eating, the re...
Unpacking Words: David Brooks on Innovation
Innovation: it’s a word that conjures up images of scientific advances—meat in Petri jars, prosthetic limbs, the next big as-seen-on-TV product. It is also, as David Brooks reminds us, something viewed as quintessential to the American self-po...
Translation as Curation
Last week when I read an article in the New York Times discussing the first full-length Hebrew translation of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan—a translation which appeared only last month. “While the first two parts have long been available in trans...
The Etymology of Advent
Yesterday, November 29, 2009, marked the beginning of Advent, the first day in the year of liturgical Western Christian churches. Falling on the fourth Sunday before Christmas, the holiday was celebrated around the world in churches by the lighting...
