What's New in the Translation Journal?

Volume 3, No. 2
April 1999

Front Page

January ’99 Issue

October ’98 Issue

July ’98 Issue

April ’98 Issue

January ’98 Issue

October ’97 Issue

July ’97 Issue

	What’s New? by Gabe Bokor
	Index 1997-99
	Translator Profiles
	A Typical Translator? by Cynthia Keesan
	The Profession
	The Bottom Line by Fire Ant & Worker Bee
	Legal Translation
	Pitfalls in Legal Translation by Davide De Leo
	Working in Brazil by Danilo Nogueira.
	Translators Around the World
	Translators’ Day in Armenia by Narine Khachatryan
	Arts & Entertainment
	Translation for Art and Architectural History by Michael Walker
	Science & Technology
	A Translator’s Guide to Organic Chemical Nomenclature XV by Chester E. Claff, Jr., Ph.D.
	Caught in the Web
	Web Surfing for Fun and Profit by Cathy Flick, Ph.D.
	Translators’ On-Line Resources by Gabe Bokor
	Translators’ Tools
	Translators’ Emporium
	Translators’ Events
	Letters to the Editor
	Call for Papers

What’s New?

by Gabe Bokor

As the Translation Journal approaches its second anniversary, it’s undergoing changes to reflect your suggestions and the development of Web technology. The new section “Translators’ Emporium” belongs to the first category; it started with several unsolicited mailings offering apparently useful software or publications intended for translators, and I thought it would be a waste just to file them away for possible later use. So a forum where vendors can present such tools was created with the intention to benefit both translators and vendors. It should not be confused with independent reviews of translators’ tools by their users, which will always be signed and featured as separate articles.
    Another new section also originated with an unsolicited, but highly welcome, contribution, this time from the former Soviet Union. Most of us know little about countries like those of the Caucasus, their languages, their culture, and the role of translation and translators in those peoples’ contacts with the world at large. I sincerely hope that “Translators Around the World” will become a permanent feature of the Journal with contributions about translators’ activities worldwide.
    Those of you using Java-enabled browsers (Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later) must have noticed two new features: the Quizlet and the Search This Site applets (both courtesy of Beseen.com and its advertisers. The Quizlet with its language trivia quiz will be updated more frequently than the rest of the Journal, so come back often, check it out and test your knowledge of language facts. The Search This Site applet allows you to search past issues of the Journal using key words.
    Starting with the January 1999 issue, the Translation Journal has been using style sheets introduced with HTML 4.0. Browsers v. 3.x and earlier ignore these style sheets, which add nothing essential to the Journal’s contents, but, in my opinion, make it more attractive and interesting. Unfortunately, different browsers have adopted different HTML 4.0 resources; thus, you will experience “live links” with Internet Explorer 4.0 and higher, but not with Navigator. In some cases style sheets may also cause format consistency problems, mainly due to erroneous coding by your inexperienced editor. Please call my attention to any such problems you may notice. As before, our aim is to make the Journal as enjoyable, attractive and easy to read as possible regardless of the computer software or hardware used in browsing.