Moment of inappropriate-translation Zen

Grok Headline matches for Moment of inappropriate-translation Zen

translation company UK, UK translation
agency, translation company london,
translation services, translation
agency, translation jobs, translators,
trade transcription

translation company UK, UK translation
agency, translation company london,
translation services, translation
agency, translation jobs, translators,
trade transcription 06/26/2004 09:12 AM
the most untranslatable word in the world .. ten most untranslateable words .. a poll of 1,000 translators .. googly and spam .. full list .. More

todaytranslations.com/index.php/fuseaction/home.content/page/pr ess
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"Totally inappropriate"

"Totally inappropriate" 07/02/2004 06:14 PM

Move to cut inappropriate NHS use

Move to cut inappropriate NHS use 01/26/2004 12:41 PM
A campaign to try to minimise inappropriate use of NHS services has been launched by ministers.

Inappropriate Content Creeps into
Classrooms

Inappropriate Content Creeps into
Classrooms 06/25/2004 09:57 PM
Internet.com Jun 26 2004 1:51AM GMT

Inappropriate methods exposed in XML
-what's the essence?

Inappropriate methods exposed in XML
-what's the essence? 07/20/2004 04:37 PM
portsmut_at_navigator.lv (Jul 20 2004)

Offshoring an inappropriate choice for
call centers

Offshoring an inappropriate choice for
call centers 04/01/2005 06:28 AM
A few weeks ago, I discussed some of the things to think about when considering outsourcing - specifically offshoring. I noted that, among other things, language and culture barriers were an issue you definitely needed to take into consideration.

SME face increasing inappropriate email
problem

SME face increasing inappropriate email
problem 04/07/2005 01:18 PM
Computer Weekly Apr 7 2005 4:19PM GMT

BOI Chief Executive resigns over
inappropriate use of internet

BOI Chief Executive resigns over
inappropriate use of internet 05/29/2004 12:27 PM
Irish Independent May 29 2004 3:36PM GMT

a Pentagon spokesman said Monday that
1,200 unreleased images of abuse at Abu
Ghraib included "inappropriate behavior
of a sexual nature."

a Pentagon spokesman said Monday that
1,200 unreleased images of abuse at Abu
Ghraib included "inappropriate behavior
of a sexual nature." 05/12/2004 01:30 AM
Female Iraqi prisoners report sexual abuse, face ostracism, shame upon release .. raped by U.S. soldiers .. LATimes

latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-stigma11may11,1,6627 518.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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Translation

Translation 08/18/2004 06:46 PM
Speaking of balkanization and translations, this is what appears to be a double translation of Lessig blog. From English to Japanese and back again, as in: "If it will not be able to bear to like him, John Perry Barlow is the man who does not separate only in tedious...

wiki and add a translation there

wiki and add a translation there 12/25/2004 05:00 PM
Global Voices Convenant

cyber.law.harvard.edu/dyn/globalvoices/wiki/index.php/Glob al_Voices_Covenant_0.2
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The Web in Your Tongue: Translation with
PHP

The Web in Your Tongue: Translation with
PHP 11/08/2002 09:09 AM

Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation 03/06/2004 01:55 AM

The movie Lost in Translation finally arrived in Finland recently and without exaggeration I must admit that it is one of 3 or 4 movies I have ever seen and immediately wanted the DVD. Aside from the sparse dialogue that is crisp, excellent performances from Bill Murry and Scarlett Johansson, and cinematography that helps to tell the story instead of trying to impress the viewers, there was an insight to the human condition that is rarely ever explored with such frankness in film; What happens when you lose your sense of place and belonging?

Expats are not so unlike the characters in the movie as we are strangers in strange lands with varying degrees of isolation and feelings of being lost. Often expats don't feel at home in their own country and go in search of someplace that should feel like home but don't always find it. The sense of dislocation in LiT is only emphasized not created by the Tokyo landscape and Japanese language barrier.

A lot of reviewers call this movie a love story of sorts, but I saw two expats, one young and one much older, who are adrift in themselves and in their lives without a place they can call home or people who will listen and understand them. Maybe they are people who never made friends very easily or haven't yet figured out what they want out of life. What is often labeled as 'wanderlust' or 'nomadic' is likely a desire to find the missing niche or some meaning in life. Some people, like Bob, have been looking for a long time. The elevator scene in which Bill Murry looms over the Japanese businessmen is a brilliant dialogue-free moment that beautifully captures the sense of being apart, of being different than everyone else, of feeling exposed, of being alone.

Perhaps the most profound feature of the two lost souls in LiT is the lack of intimacy with everyone around them. Charlotte calls a friend at a low point who puts her on hold whereupon she clues in that this is not someone with whom she can divulge her feelings of desolation. Intimacy is becoming a rare experience in life, even Bob and Charlotte possess it only briefly before moving on. You find yourself wondering if Charlotte will still be as lost at Bob's age since it's clear he has seen a bit of his own lost youth in hers.

Less Lost in Translation

Less Lost in Translation 08/03/2004 01:50 AM

Direct and Related Links for 'Less Lost in Translation'

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Polish Translation of Mozilla 1.6
Available

Polish Translation of Mozilla 1.6
Available 01/22/2004 02:38 AM

French translation for FeedDemon 1.5

French translation for FeedDemon 1.5 03/14/2005 06:24 PM

An anonymous FeedDemon user just sent me a French translation for the new FeedD emon 1.5. If you're viewing this in FeedDemon, simply c lick this link to download and install the French language file.

Note: My understanding is that this translation contains a few mistakes, but they're minor ones which won't affect FeedDemon's usage.

Universal Translation Tools

Universal Translation Tools 04/29/2004 07:03 PM
Translating Mozilla and OpenOffice just got easier

Innocence lost in translation

Innocence lost in translation 08/04/2004 08:04 AM
From the doctor's office to the courtroom, immigrants often rely on their bilingual children to interpret for them. Are these kids learning valuable life skills -- or shouldering too much family responsibility?

Translation for European Languages

Translation for European Languages 10/22/2002 10:57 PM
Where to start and who to do it?

Czech to Slovak translation

Czech to Slovak translation 03/13/2003 12:53 PM
Slovniky a data k dispozicii

Internationalization and Translation
Issues

Internationalization and Translation
Issues 03/19/2003 10:27 PM

Internationalization and Translation Issues

I'm getting a huge push on this now.  And I understand the demand / need for it.  Trust me we're working on it.  If you want to pitch in on the user interface translation, drop me an email and I'll be in touch when we're ready to start on it.  I'm working on getting language categorization in very quickly results NOT in your native language can be filtered out of the result set.  And proper indexing, etc.

Transtalo Translation System

Transtalo Translation System 01/03/2005 05:48 AM
Esperanto input module released, core library 0.2 released

Another Italian translation of my DRM
talk

Another Italian translation of my DRM
talk 07/06/2004 01:33 PM
Domenico Della Side has posted another Italian translation of my DRM talk. Link (Thanks, Nico!)

GNU Translation and Localisation Team

GNU Translation and Localisation Team 11/11/2003 03:19 PM
Car incident with Project Leader

Palm Translation Utilities

Palm Translation Utilities 12/06/2003 12:33 AM
First release of Palm Translation Utilities

translation management system

translation management system 07/27/2004 12:32 PM
new t7e release info

Gesture lost in translation

Gesture lost in translation 02/01/2005 09:18 PM

Xeni @ Boing Boing

Jenna Bush, Spawn of Satan

Is it me, or is Jenna Bush holding up the sign of Satan next to her father's face in this photo? Choose picture #7 in this MSNBC slide show.
Here's the original MSNBC Link, and here's a link to a copy of the photo I saved locally (it's now offline at MSNBC) (thanks Jeremy)

Update: BB reader Charles Bestal says, "As a University of Texas student, we hear a good bit about the party animal around campus -- but it should be noted that she is most likely invoking the school's hand-sign (Hook 'em Horns, they say), rather than the devil, or her father."

The Houston Chronicle confirms that it was the University of Texas "Hook'em, Horns" but it appears to have offended some people in Norway.

Houston Chronicle

Norwa y reads something sinister in 'Hook 'em' sign

..."Sjokkhilsen fra Bush datter," read an outraged headline on Norwegian news Web site Nettavisen. Translated: "Shock greeting from Bush daughter."

...The "Hook 'em, Horns" that Bush flashed when The Eyes of Texas was played at the Black Tie and Boots gala Wednesday was misconstrued by some in Norway as a sign of the devil used by a musical scene that terrorized the country in the late 1980s and early '90s.

...Death metal's history
In Norway the horns carried a greater menace. The country has long been a hotbed of death metal, a subgenre of music with a sordid history of church burnings, murder, inadvertant bludgeonings (with sheep skulls), pet sacrifices and sundry behavior best described as anti-Christian. There the gesture has little to do with sports rivalries.

...Needless to say, Norway's more prudish contingent was aghast upon seeing the daughter of the American president flashing a sign associated with such behavior.

It could be worse ...
..."I suppose it can mean different things to different people in different parts of the world," Clark says. "I guess the Norwegians and Italians should be happy that our mascot was a longhorn and not a unicorn."

This sounds like something from a Douglas Adams book. Luckily it didn't mean anything offensive to our future Alien Overlords.

Thanks to Glenn to the Houston Chronicle link

UPDATE: David Weinberger's "Forgive me" gesture and "The Shocker" via AG.

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Open source translation tools

Open source translation tools 03/23/2005 04:12 AM
Do you speak open source, but English is not your native language? You can turn to a growing list of user-friendly tools for translators, including specialized graphical tools like poEdit, KBabel, and Gtranslator.

Criticism in Japan for "Lost in
Translation"

Criticism in Japan for "Lost in
Translation" 04/19/2004 09:45 AM
Interesting piece in the Christian Science Monitor on reactions in Japan to the film Lost in Translation -- which is evidently not translating so well.

[T]he film is under attack for cultural bias, and for maximizing its humor by depicting Japanese as robotic and cartoon-like. The question is: to what degree is the film insensitive - and to what extent is this the kind of "poking fun" that some ethnic groups now ignore? Until now, none of these voices or questions has come from Japan. Indeed, while "Lost in Translation" opened all over the world last fall, it opened in image-conscious Tokyo only last weekend. Some sources say this is deliberate. Japanese decorum on culturally sensitive matters precludes angry protest or high-volume misgivings about images that might be considered unfair or "unpleasant," to use a local reviewer's term. But it is telling that the Academy-award-winning "valentine" can be seen here only in a small 300-seat theater in Shibuya, and critics warn that the film may hurt the feelings of ordinary Japanese.

Link, and Link to background on earlier inter-cultural criticism of the film (via Joi Ito)

Protocol Translation Made Easy!

Protocol Translation Made Easy! 09/13/2004 03:34 AM
The EnNET® Centralized Monitoring and Control (CMC) Server is a software application used to connect disparate building management systems to any centrally managed BACnet/IP operator workstation. The EnNET CMC Server provides robust protocol translation so that legacy building management systems using non-BACnet/IP automation protocols can be managed from a central operator’s console using BACnet/IP. The EnNET CMC Server can easily translate Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP/IP, SNMP, LON, and OPC DA to BACnet/IP. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

Video Games - Lost in Translation?

Video Games - Lost in Translation? 04/29/2004 01:53 AM

A Huawei Story Lost in Translation

A Huawei Story Lost in Translation 08/03/2004 10:54 AM
Business Week Aug 3 2004 3:38PM GMT

Translation license discussion starts
soon

Translation license discussion starts
soon 04/23/2004 12:13 PM
Public discussion on the Creative Commons translation license starts this Monday (April 26). The translation license would be used by authors who want to make their works available for others to translate into local languages. The initial idea for the license came from a lecturer at a conference in South Africa in January this year. He said that he found it virtually impossible to get permission from authors to allow him to translate articles into local languages for use by his students.

Go here to join.

Lost in Translation 1.0.0 (Default
branch)

Lost in Translation 1.0.0 (Default
branch) 04/08/2005 04:27 AM
Lost in Translation is a steganographic encoder that exploits the possibilities of steganographically embedding information in the "noise'' created by automatic translation of natural language documents. Because natural language translation inherently creates plenty of room for variation, it is ideal for steganographic applications. Also, because there are frequent errors in legitimate automatic text translations, additional errors inserted by an information hiding mechanism are plausibly undetectable and would appear to be part of the normal noise associated with translation.

Brazillian Portuguese translation for
FeedDemon 1.5

Brazillian Portuguese translation for
FeedDemon 1.5 03/14/2005 06:24 PM

José Flávio Vidal just sent me a Brazillian Portuguese translation for FeedD emon 1.5. If you're viewing this in FeedDemon, just click this link to download and install this language file. Thanks, Flávio!

March 6, 2005: I've just posted an updated version of this FDLANG which includes a few corrections.

asianmediawatch.net mobilizes against
"Lost In Translation"

asianmediawatch.net mobilizes against
"Lost In Translation" 02/15/2004 02:26 AM

asianmediawatch.net has started a campaign to petition the movie industry to vote against "Lost In Translation" for the Academy Awards.

My sister blogs about the negative depictions of Japanese in "Lost in Translation". She links to a UK Guardian and New York Times article that point out similar issues with the movie.

When I first saw the movie, I thought it was funny. After reading the articles and the asianmediawatch site and thinking about how much influence Hollywood has on the way the world views cultures, I can see their point.

Qtopia for Yopy - Translation & Patc

Qtopia for Yopy - Translation & Patc 11/03/2003 07:08 PM
Qtopia for Yopy - Translation & Patches

OASIS Converges on Translation,
Localization

OASIS Converges on Translation,
Localization 12/18/2002 10:06 AM
The open-source-centric e-business consortium eyes more ways to standardize Web services tasks.

Frankenstein Translation Memory Suite

Frankenstein Translation Memory Suite 10/31/2003 04:03 PM
Frankenstein Translation Memory Suite
Grok Description matches for Moment of inappropriate-translation Zen
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Linux NTFS 1.9.2 (NTFS Tools and
Library)

Linux NTFS 1.9.2 (NTFS Tools and
Library) 05/17/2004 10:37 AM
NTFS and LDM drivers and tools for Linux.

Linux NTFS 1.8.4 (NTFS Tools and
Library)

Linux NTFS 1.8.4 (NTFS Tools and
Library) 01/27/2004 10:16 AM
NTFS and LDM drivers and tools for Linux.

Linux NTFS 1.8.3 (NTFS Tools and
Library)

Linux NTFS 1.8.3 (NTFS Tools and
Library) 01/22/2004 10:25 AM
NTFS and LDM drivers and tools for Linux.

Linux NTFS 1.8.0 (NTFS Tools and
Library)

Linux NTFS 1.8.0 (NTFS Tools and
Library) 11/19/2003 03:29 PM
NTFS and LDM drivers and tools for Linux.

Linux NTFS 1.9.4 (NTFS Tools and
Library)

Linux NTFS 1.9.4 (NTFS Tools and
Library) 09/06/2004 11:14 AM
NTFS and LDM drivers and tools for Linux.

Linux NTFS 2.1.12 (NTFS TNG Driver)

Linux NTFS 2.1.12 (NTFS TNG Driver) 06/11/2004 04:06 PM
NTFS and LDM drivers and tools for Linux.

Linux NTFS 2.1.11 (NTFS TNG Driver)

Linux NTFS 2.1.11 (NTFS TNG Driver) 05/26/2004 03:23 PM
NTFS and LDM drivers and tools for Linux.

Scrounge NTFS 0.8.5

Scrounge NTFS 0.8.5 05/20/2004 04:01 AM
A data recovery program for NTFS filesystems.

XP: Convert Fat32 to NTFS

XP: Convert Fat32 to NTFS 06/20/2004 11:07 AM
Tech-Recipes Jun 20 2004 3:13PM GMT

Choosing NTFS Or FAT For SQL Server

Choosing NTFS Or FAT For SQL Server 06/10/2004 01:13 AM

DiskInternals NTFS Reader has been
Released

DiskInternals NTFS Reader has been
Released 09/17/2004 03:06 AM
DiskInternals NTFS Reader 1.01 for Windows 95, 98, Me released. [PRWEB Sep 17, 2004]

Using the Real ntfs.sys Driver Under
Linux

Using the Real ntfs.sys Driver Under
Linux 12/02/2003 12:21 PM

10.3: Mount and use NTFS disks natively

10.3: Mount and use NTFS disks natively 11/05/2003 12:05 PM
For the longest time I was stymied by how to share large video files between my Windows and my MacOS box on an external FireWire hard drive. FAT wouldn't cut it as the file sizes were often larger than that file system allowe...

Keeping in shape your Windows NTFS
Installation

Keeping in shape your Windows NTFS
Installation 02/17/2004 08:07 AM

Nuevo 'driver' NTFS para Linux

Nuevo 'driver' NTFS para Linux 12/03/2003 07:29 AM

Linux NTFS file system support

Linux NTFS file system support 03/13/2003 07:26 PM
NTFS 2.1.2a available for Linux kernel 2.4.20

Moment of inappropriate-translation Zen

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