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A New Language Discovered at the Sochi Olympics: Snowboarder

 

  In the world of language translation and interpreting, you get used to certain challenges: slang and idiom, poor pronunciation and thick accents, regional dialects that aren’t well-documented, and many other standard problems. At the Olympics, many of these problems raise their ugly heads all at once, and it’s not uncommon to double-up interpreters assigned to press conferences because the language load is so huge and the mental stress so acute that a single interpreter often burns out and falls behind.

  This past week, though, something altogether unusual and interesting happened when Sage Kotsenburg won the Gold Medal in the slopestyle snowboard event in Sochi. His triumphant press conference where he attempted to explain his thought process and the resulting routine that won him the Gold was almost like listening to a new language being invented right in front of your eyes – and believe this translation professional when he tells you that every interpreter, translator, and other translation services worker in that room earned their living and then some during that press conference!

A 1620 Japan

Here’s Kotsenburg’s routine as outlined in Snowboarder:

 

“Landing a cab 270 to switch, half-cab on back 540 off flat down, half-cab layback slide off the cannon back 180 out, cab double cork 1260 holy crail, frontside 1080 off the toes rocket air, then a 1620 Japan.”

 

Yes, that is all technical jargon and it all actually means something. In a situation like this, no amount of translation experience matters: this is simultaneously a perfectly legitimate sentence in English and completely untranslatable by anyone unless they share a technical snowboarding background and make sense of the word salad of terms there. That last bit, by the way – the 1620 Japan – is the complex move that Kotsenburg decided to add to his routine just a few minutes before competing, and involves rotating in midair exactly four and a half times.

Disponível em: <http://www.onehourtranslation.com/translation/blog/newlanguage- discovered-sochi-olympics-snowboarder#sthash.0Pd3vMQ6.dpuf> Acesso em: 18 fev. 2014. (Adaptado).

Glossário:

challenges: desafios

double-up interpreters: intérpretes trabalharam em pares

Kotsenburg\'s routine is expressed in

A New Language Discovered at the Sochi Olympics: Snowboarder

 

  In the world of language translation and interpreting, you get used to certain challenges: slang and idiom, poor pronunciation and thick accents, regional dialects that aren’t well-documented, and many other standard problems. At the Olympics, many of these problems raise their ugly heads all at once, and it’s not uncommon to double-up interpreters assigned to press conferences because the language load is so huge and the mental stress so acute that a single interpreter often burns out and falls behind.

  This past week, though, something altogether unusual and interesting happened when Sage Kotsenburg won the Gold Medal in the slopestyle snowboard event in Sochi. His triumphant press conference where he attempted to explain his thought process and the resulting routine that won him the Gold was almost like listening to a new language being invented right in front of your eyes – and believe this translation professional when he tells you that every interpreter, translator, and other translation services worker in that room earned their living and then some during that press conference!

A 1620 Japan

Here’s Kotsenburg’s routine as outlined in Snowboarder:

 

“Landing a cab 270 to switch, half-cab on back 540 off flat down, half-cab layback slide off the cannon back 180 out, cab double cork 1260 holy crail, frontside 1080 off the toes rocket air, then a 1620 Japan.”

 

Yes, that is all technical jargon and it all actually means something. In a situation like this, no amount of translation experience matters: this is simultaneously a perfectly legitimate sentence in English and completely untranslatable by anyone unless they share a technical snowboarding background and make sense of the word salad of terms there. That last bit, by the way – the 1620 Japan – is the complex move that Kotsenburg decided to add to his routine just a few minutes before competing, and involves rotating in midair exactly four and a half times.

Disponível em: <http://www.onehourtranslation.com/translation/blog/newlanguage- discovered-sochi-olympics-snowboarder#sthash.0Pd3vMQ6.dpuf> Acesso em: 18 fev. 2014. (Adaptado).

Glossário:

challenges: desafios

double-up interpreters: intérpretes trabalharam em pares

The expression “earn their living and then some” refers to the fact that the translators/interpreters

A New Language Discovered at the Sochi Olympics: Snowboarder

 

  In the world of language translation and interpreting, you get used to certain challenges: slang and idiom, poor pronunciation and thick accents, regional dialects that aren’t well-documented, and many other standard problems. At the Olympics, many of these problems raise their ugly heads all at once, and it’s not uncommon to double-up interpreters assigned to press conferences because the language load is so huge and the mental stress so acute that a single interpreter often burns out and falls behind.

  This past week, though, something altogether unusual and interesting happened when Sage Kotsenburg won the Gold Medal in the slopestyle snowboard event in Sochi. His triumphant press conference where he attempted to explain his thought process and the resulting routine that won him the Gold was almost like listening to a new language being invented right in front of your eyes – and believe this translation professional when he tells you that every interpreter, translator, and other translation services worker in that room earned their living and then some during that press conference!

A 1620 Japan

Here’s Kotsenburg’s routine as outlined in Snowboarder:

 

“Landing a cab 270 to switch, half-cab on back 540 off flat down, half-cab layback slide off the cannon back 180 out, cab double cork 1260 holy crail, frontside 1080 off the toes rocket air, then a 1620 Japan.”

 

Yes, that is all technical jargon and it all actually means something. In a situation like this, no amount of translation experience matters: this is simultaneously a perfectly legitimate sentence in English and completely untranslatable by anyone unless they share a technical snowboarding background and make sense of the word salad of terms there. That last bit, by the way – the 1620 Japan – is the complex move that Kotsenburg decided to add to his routine just a few minutes before competing, and involves rotating in midair exactly four and a half times.

Disponível em: Acesso em: 18 fev. 2014. (Adaptado).

Glossário:

challenges: desafios

double-up interpreters: intérpretes trabalharam em pares

 

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The term \'\'hate speech”, as defined by the Council of Europe\'s Committee of Ministers, covers all forms of expression which spread, incite, promote or justify racial hatred, xenophobia, anti-Semitism or other forms of hatred based on intolerance, including: intolerance expressed by aggressive nationalism and ethnocentrism, discrimination and hostility against minorities, migrants and people of immigrant origin.

According to the given definition, which of the following cartoons contains “hate speech”?

Britain’s biggest, pinkest fundraising day is back for 2013! It’s your chance to invite friends and colleagues to join forces, have fun and do something incredible for women with breast cancer. All you have to do is grab something pink, wear it on Friday 25 October 2013 and donate £2 to Breast Cancer Campaign. But don’t be alone in your pink glory – with our ideas for wear it pink day at the office, in school and at home you can make sure everyone joins in.

 

So let’s get started! Tell everyone about wear it pink. Send an email around, tell the school in assembly, share it on your work intranet, invite the girls round for a pamper night just for wear it pink. Get your own wear it pink posters by registering and stick them all over the place!

GET INVOLVED

Disponível em: <http://www.wearitpink.org/>. Acesso em: 17 set. 2013.

 

According to the text,

Movie Info

It only takes one person to start a revolution. The extraordinary story of Steve Jobs, the original innovator and ground-breaking entrepreneur who let nothing stand in the way of greatness. The film tells the epic and turbulent story of Jobs as he blazed a trail that changed technology - and the world - forever. (c) Official Site

 

PG-13, 2 hr. 7 min. In Theaters: Aug 16, 2013 Wide

Drama US Box Office:$15.5M

Directed By: Joshua Michael Stern Open Road Films - Official Site

Written By: Matt Whiteley

Disponível em: . Acesso em: 17 set. 2013. 

Glossário:

entrepreneur: empreendedor

blazed a trail: abriu caminho

 

LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER tells the story of a White House butler who served eight American presidents over three decades. The film traces the dramatic changes that swept American society during this time, from the civil rights movement to Vietnam and beyond, and how those changes affected this man's life and family. Forest Whitaker stars as the butler with Robin Williams as Dwight Eisenhower, John Cusack as Richard Nixon, Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan, James Marsden as John F. Kennedy, Liev Schreiber as Lyndon B. Johnson, and many more. Academy Award (R) nominated Lee Daniels (PRECIOUS) directs and cowrote the script with Emmy (R)-award winning Danny Strong (GAME CHANGE). (c) Weinstein

 

PG-13, 2 hr. 6 min. In Theaters: Aug 16, 2013

Wide

Drama US Box Office:$100.0M

Directed By: Lee Daniels The Weinstein Company - Official

Site

Written By: Danny Strong

Disponível em: . Acesso em: 17 set. 2013.

 

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