Rapport International, LLC is hosting a language translation contest for high school students in honor of International Translation Day on September 30. Students can win a $100 American Express gift card by translating a short story into the language of their choice.
High School students around the world are invited to compete by translating the story of a translation misunderstanding into one of any language. The winner of the $100 American Express gift certificate will be chosen by a random drawing of qualified translations. The contest will run from September 30 to October 31, 2010. The translation story and contest rules are posted on the Rapport International website. Read more.
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What can we do at Proz.com and among global professional translators?
Soonthon Lupkitaro
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The "story of a foreign language translation goof" has been taken from someone's blog and can be viewed on this page.
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The "story of a foreign language translation goof" has been taken from someone's blog and can be viewed on this page.
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
[EDIT to ask mods: what's happened to the method of displaying quotes on this site? They used to appear in white boxes, which were much easier to distinguish.]
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Argentina
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Dear Soonthon,
What can we do at Proz.com and among global professional translators?
Soonthon Lupkitaro
ProZ.com is organizing Translation3, a virtual conference to celebrate International Translation Day. If you haven't done so yet, you can register here http://www.proz.com/translation3
So far 7591 have registered. It will be a fantastic event.
See you there!
Romina
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Dear urbom,
[EDIT to ask mods: what's happened to the method of displaying quotes on this site? They used to appear in white boxes, which were much easier to distinguish.]
[Edited at 2010-09-24 05:55 GMT]
The the appearance of quotes in forum posts are back to normal now as reported here http://www.proz.com/post/1579156#1579156
Romina
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The the appearance of quotes in forum posts are back to normal now as reported here http://www.proz.com/post/1579156#1579156
Ah, I see. I had used HTML < blockquote > < /blockquote > tags as mentioned in the post form instead of BBcode tags, which are generated by the system.
[Edited at 2010-09-24 11:42 GMT]
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