The Interactive Rosetta Disk v1.0 that can be explored from the site The Rosetta Project. A Long Now Foundation Library of Human Language
The is September 30, you going to forget, the day International Translation , celebrated ( remember ) like every year the day of St. Jerome , patron of translators and interpreters. All those who have translated an extremely or very little, and those who aspire to do so is honored and enjoy this day to reflect on their profession or their favorite occupation.
The press release announcing the theme chosen by the International Federation of Translators for this world day of laying the groundwork for entering the debate on what calls "cultural diversity " which as outlined in the Universal Declaration of UNESCO adopted in 2001 " is as necessary for humankind as biodiversity is for nature "
Our planet is rich linguistic diversity. The approximately six to seven thousand languages spoken around the world are custodians of our collective memory and heritage intangible. However, this linguistic and cultural diversity is under threat: 96% of these languages are spoken by less than 4% of the world and hundreds of them will soon disappear forever.
This is to say that the theme chosen by the IBT for this day World translation is that which was proposed by the URT Russian:
" translation quality for a plurality of votes .
Mailboxes China (Suzhou, 2002, PK) I take this opportunity to inform you that the program 27th conference on translation Arles be held the 5-6-7 November 2010 on "Translate correspondence is available online at the site of ATLAS.
This year it will Sylvie Gentil, translator, among other things Mian Mian ( Panda Sex , Au Diable Vauvert, 2009), who will carry the voice of China and its literature in workshops on Saturday morning. The second day will also hold a roundtable on "Translating Les Liaisons Dangereuses", one of many opportunities to put the translation in the spotlight during the three days that will emphasize to Russia, its language and its rich literature.
To stay on topic the world's languages (and conclude this 400 e ticket), I would point out that UNESCO has published a new study linguistic diversity on the Internet . This shows that the French occupies a more modest, far behind the English , with only 3.48% web pages written in our language cons over 50% in that of Shakespeare, but also that our language is less present on the Web than German (4.91%), the Japanese (6.04%), the Simplified Chinese (7.49%) which can be added the modest 1.58 % of Chinese traditional that rivals the Korean to 1.92%, but remains before the Thai (0.83%) and Vietnamese (0.60%) [Rating Google realized July 3, 2008 (pp. 68-69)] . Then, an effort, please, your blogs ... (PK)
