Lawyer-linguist, lecturer, language lover. ATA President (2001-2003). UVA Law Grad. ATA-certified translator from French, Spanish, German and Dutch to English
Lookout Mountain, TN
Joined June 2012
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I'm looking forward to this. (Something tells me we'll be seeking parallels between high-end translation services and luxury hospitality services.)
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Presenting at the American Translators Association annual meeting in Miami. It was a pleasure to share with ATA attendees aspects of “Cultural Interference in Spanish-English Legal Translation” as reflected in Spanish Criminal Procedure. #ata64
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A university without languages is a poorer university.
Help save @WestVirginiaU's #worldlanguages department! Use @JNCLInfo's advocacy tool to share your thoughts with decision makers: go to languagepolicy.org/take-acti… and click Save World Language Courses at WVU. @atanet #advocacy
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Heinrich von Lehndorff, geb. 1909, wird als Leutnant nach dem Überfall auf die Sowjetunion 1941 Zeuge eines Massakers der SS-„Einsatzgruppen“ – und entscheidet sich zum Widerstand. Die Verschwörer des 20. Juli treffen sich im Park hinter seinem Schloss in Steinort/Ostpreußen. 1/2
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Babel readers! Please sign this petition against the closure of the University of West Virginia’s Dept. of World Languages. Short-sighted senior managers there are under the misguided impression that expert linguists can be replaced by language learning apps.
Thanks to everyone who’s helped to boost our signal. Please sign and share, no matter who you are or where! #WVU #stopthecuts #AcademicTwitter Preserve Students' Rights to Study World Languages at WVU - Sign the Petition! chng.it/hD98KQTH via @Change
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Fassbier in einer Maschine der Lufthansa, späte 1950er Jahre.
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Flashback to presenting @ChrisDurbanFR with the John Sykes Award at an @ITIUK event in London in … was it 2018?
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Hier à l'#UETF2023 : Engaging with a Gage: Secured Transactions in French and English avec Tom West @IntermarkLS | Présentation sur la #terminologie de l'évasion fiscale
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In American academia, you sometimes have to remind people that the language these people wrote in was not English
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We talk about the first sentence of Pride and Prejudice - the language, the humor, the snark - and then look at 10 Russian translations. They don’t like them, they see what they missed - and they pretend they are Austen in Russian.
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Intéressant projet de collectif sur la #traduction et la #lexicographie créole en Haïti.
blogs.mediapart.fr/robert-be…
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Do you spit on me? Or eat your teeth? Or slap the back of your neck? If not, do you know what that means? Here's a guide to make sense of all this bizarre behavior.
themoscowtimes.com/2023/07/0…
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Speaking of forensics, lawyer-linguist Tom West aka @IntermarkLS will take a deep dive into the Fr/En vocab of tax fraud and evasion at @SFTfr's UETF in Luxbg on July 18. @FIT_IFT rates apply. Join us? uetf.fr
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Can #lawyers really be that naive? Not checking sources? lnkd.in/gRMVKw4m
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Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-…
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Je reprends progressivement mes recherches sur un sujet aussi vaste que passionnant : le #langagedudroit dans l'œuvre de #Shakespeare. Plus d'infos ici -> linkedin.com/posts/fr%C3%A9d…
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Extrait d'un article à venir sur "Les faux amis ou les trahisons du vocabulaire anglais" de M. Koessler et J. Derocquigny (1928). Où l'on apprend que les "faux amis" ne l'ont pas toujours été...
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With Christmas around the corner, shall I mention #proofreading as an essential part of #translation ?
