Day 3: 50th ATA Conference

More sessions, and too many at one time, making it hard to choose which ones to attend. Some offer significant added value in the attendance; some don’t (the corresponding paper on the Conference CD suffices).

And some may not be worth going to at all. I ran across an old acquaintance, Paul G., who mentioned that [...]

Day 2: 50th ATA Conference

The morning’s program was devoted to the annual meeting of all ATA members, which I decided to skip, as I have nothing valuable to add to the discussion.

My day began by walking to the Marriott from my base near the United Nations. Once in the vicinity of the conference hotel, I kept walking, past [...]

International Translation Day 2009

Saint Jerome in his Study, by Domenico Ghirlandaio

Translators around the world today observed International Translation Day, which by no happenstance coincides with the feast day of St. Jerome, at least in Western Christianity.

Jerome was, by all accounts, an accomplished translator, and largely responsible for producing parts of the Vulgate translation of the Bible into [...]