http://www.proz.com/forum/50 Discussion Forums for Translators en-us Copyright 1999-2005, ProZ.com. All rights reserved. support@proz.com http://www.proz.com/images/proz_logo_v4.gif http://www.proz.com/forums http://www.proz.com/topic/112670?float=true AniseK: Hello everyone! Yesterday, my translation teacher gave me a text for me to translate into US English. It got me wondering if the UK English is very... (18 posts) 21 Aug 2008 12:21:00 GMT http://www.proz.com/topic/112372?float=true Matt Coler: The most universal means of binding NP constituents together is adjancency, a term defined by Givon as “a transparently iconic device that keeps to... (3 posts) 11 Aug 2008 10:10:00 GMT http://www.proz.com/topic/110932?float=true Yumico Tanaka: Hi hope someone can help me understand this. In the death certificate I am translating, under the section of the 'informant', there is a sub sectio... (4 posts) 23 Jul 2008 21:31:00 GMT http://www.proz.com/topic/110926?float=true YuckSay: Hi, well I have to do a research regarding this topic (gender neutralization) and do a comparison between Spanish and English language (why English is... (6 posts) 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.proz.com/topic/110923?float=true Yumico Tanaka: Hi all, I am translating English birth certificates into Japanese and came across these three questions. 1) Should I convert the Christian Era into ... (5 posts) 24 Jul 2008 14:57:00 GMT http://www.proz.com/topic/110855?float=true Alexandra Speirs: I hope this is the right forum.... Anyway, I'm translating a text for an illustration competition and the subject is children's games. I'm having ... (12 posts) 24 Jul 2008 16:13:00 GMT http://www.proz.com/topic/110327?float=true Paul Dixon: I have recently asked a Proz.com question which I answered with "up the street", and a fellow translator asked if it could be "down the street". This ... (12 posts) 18 Jul 2008 21:09:00 GMT http://www.proz.com/topic/109675?float=true Fabrice: I am looking for some common but extreme example of translations being much longer than the English. This is to illustrate some of the challenges of ... (12 posts) 15 Jul 2008 03:30:00 GMT http://www.proz.com/topic/109076?float=true V_iris: I always confuse them two.The book I referred to says metonymy is a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with ... (4 posts) 04 Aug 2008 15:54:00 GMT http://www.proz.com/topic/108367?float=true Rosina Peixoto: What are the different implications in the following sentences? 1- I met Helen and Brian. 2- I met Helen, and Brian. 3- I met Helen- and Bria... (15 posts) 26 Jun 2008 10:51:00 GMT http://www.proz.com/topic/107698?float=true Vito Smolej: ...a fascinating study on language and psychosis that found that multilingual psychotic patients can present with either different or less psychotic s... (9 posts) 15 Jun 2008 15:35:00 GMT http://www.proz.com/topic/107588?float=true Henry Hinds: In recent days I have come across a number of examples where the author of a text to be translated has apparently become confused and put in a word th... (10 posts) 12 Jun 2008 16:29:00 GMT http://www.proz.com/topic/107395?float=true Smith Park: Hi, Everybody, I have some texts which needs your explanation. There are 2 word, talking and along. Please take a look at these paragraphs bell... (8 posts) 12 Jun 2008 16:34:00 GMT http://www.proz.com/topic/105791?float=true Yarula: i need a really comprehensive dictionary or encyklopedia of linguistcs (linguistic terms). can anyone recommend something to me? thnx (4 posts) 29 May 2008 09:33:00 GMT http://www.proz.com/topic/105589?float=true marco lessa: It is a common belief that the accent mark helps foreigners to use correctly the Portuguese stress. Look at the sentences below, all carrying words ... (4 posts) 04 Jun 2008 01:56:00 GMT