- December 17th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
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 le…
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
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…
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- December 11th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
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 light…
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- December 9th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
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, somethin…
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- December 2nd, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
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…
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- November 30th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
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 celeb…
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- November 24th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
Unfriend n. To remove a contact from your network on a social networking site, such as Facebook. The verdict is in: the New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2009 Word of the Year is “unfriend.” Th…
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- November 20th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
A picture may say a thousand words, but what about a flower? Last week in Singapore, while the world leaders convened to discuss politics, global climate change, and humanitarian efforts at the annu…
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- November 12th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
What is a Psychometrician? A psychometrician is someone who practices the science of educational and psychological measurement, or in other words, testing. Psychometricians measure the validity, relia…
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- November 10th, 2009
- November 3rd, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
While my friend and I were driving through the mountains to a small Appalachian town in southwestern Virginia for their weekly bluegrass jamboree, we passed the turn-off to Green’s Garage. I expla…
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- October 28th, 2009
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The last week of October and the beginning of November brings together some fairly disparate events, holidays, and emotions. For one, especially here in the U.S., October 31 is Halloween, that stran…
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- October 27th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
Since earning recognition for Innovation in Multicultural Health Care, Kaiser Permanente’s Clinician Cultural Linguistic Assessment language testing tool, which is administered by ALTA, has been…
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- October 26th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
Although not his most famous work, one of Dante Alighieri’s most important ones was a composition entitled De Vulgari Eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular or Concerning Vernacular Eloquence),…
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- October 22nd, 2009
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- October 15th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
In honor of Blog Action Day 2009, here is an exploration of the language used in the climate debates: Today there exist an impressive number of environmental publications, blogs, and websites dedicat…
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- October 14th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
There are few things that I love more than finding out that two seemingly very different words share the same root. Like the shared history of pomegranate and hand grenade, these connections betwee…
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- October 13th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
Last week on October 8, Britain celebrated National Poetry Day. The theme was “Heroes and Heroines” and various newspapers, blogs, and websites celebrated the word mastery of thousands of popula…
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- October 12th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
It’s raining heavily again in Atlanta, and the soothing sound of heavy drops hitting against the roof and windows brings to mind the language of house and home. Both the words “house” and …
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- October 9th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
By now everyone has heard the announcement that the United States’ president Barack Obama is the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. The announcement, which was made at 5 am Eastern Standard…
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- October 8th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
Students from Longview High School in Texas recently contacted ALTA to ask for advice about a class project. Their project is part of an Engineering Design and Development course where the students t…
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
The English names for the days of the week have their roots in astrology and ancient cultures. The practice of naming days after heavenly bodies began – at least for the Western world – with the…
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Last night I had the pleasure of hearing Ronny Cox, the actor who played Drew Ballinger in Deliverance and Richard “Dick” Jones in RoboCop, perform his country western music at a small…
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- October 7th, 2009
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The field of animal cognition has been rapidly expanding since the mid-twentieth century. In the March 2008 issue of National Geographic, Virginia Morell explored the various animal cognition studies…
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- September 23rd, 2009
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So youve decided to take that next big step, to apply to graduate schools for a Translation Studies degree. But the big questions are rolling around in your head — which of the U.S. schools t…
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- September 22nd, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
You may be surprised to learn how many of the words we use have unusual origins. Having spent centuries in our lexicons, these words have lost their original significations and now take on colloquial…
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
For those not in Atlanta and who have not heard any news about what is going on right now, we are in the middle of the biggest flood on record. Although it has been raining for over a week now in Geo…
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- September 21st, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
When we experience a sensation, we feel it; when something makes sense we get it; when we get a sense of something, we understand it; and when something is entirely senseless, it is stupid, ou…
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- September 16th, 2009
- September 15th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
Many a quarrel has ended with a search for the nearest dictionary. The answer to a question of connotation versus denotation, implied or explicit meaning, and historical, social, or academic understa…
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- September 14th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
Over the past year or so Ive noticed a strange phenomenon: people are showing up in cafeterias and break rooms carrying tiny plastic boxes or tins filled with elegantly arranged or cutely flourished…
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- September 9th, 2009
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Today marks the first unofficial day of Fall and where I am, at least, the weather is starting to cloud up and cool off a bit and the kids are back in school. To celebrate the close of summer, the Ne…
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- September 4th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
It’s that time of the year again, the application cycle for graduate programs across the nation is about to start. Applying to any program is a daunting task, whether it be a certificate progra…
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- August 31st, 2009
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One of my favorite web comics is Anders Loves Maria by Renee Engström. The comic follows the story of Anders and Maria, two artists living in Stockholm. I love the complexity of the storylineit…
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
Irish speakers will now be able to use Googles online translation tools to translate web documents into Gaeilge. In addition to translating specific pages and text, the tool allows users to search…
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- August 26th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
This summer feels like it has been, the summer of food. Between the premiers of movies like Food Inc. and Julie and Julia, the buzz around New York Times food critic Frank Brunis retirement , and…
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- August 25th, 2009
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
Four hundred years ago today (August 25), Galileo Galilei (Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei) demonstrated the use of a telescope to the Venetian senate. His telescope, a simple leather…
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AltaTranslation has posted a new entry on: Beyond Words : The ALTA Blog
Over the past few days I managed to pack up all of my belongings into cardboard boxes, meticulously arrange them in a U-Haul truck, drive almost five hundred miles north, unload the truck, and then un…
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