Translation Contest

Volume 5, No. 1
January 2001

A new Translation Journal is published every three months, and there is nothing much that can happen to a staid translator over a three-month period. Or usually there isn't, that is. Since the last TJ, 1001 Termos—Balanços e Relatórios Anuais, a short Portuguese - English glossary for those who translate accounting stuff from Portuguese into English, has been published by Editora SBS (www.sbs.com.br)

Despite the name, the book holds over 1600 terms, often with examples and comments, more or less in the vein of my articles for the Translation Journal* (it is the only way I can write). Another volume on Corporate Law is in the oven. The next one will be on Tax Law. English - Portuguese glossaries will come later.

Every translator's dream is to publish a dictionary, and mine has now come true.

Danilo Nogueira can be reached at:
danilo.tradutor@uol.com.br.

*Editor's Note: Mr. Nogueira has numerous articles published in past issues of the Translation Journal on financial, banking, and business terminology, as well as on general translation-related topics.

	From the Editor
	TJ in the New Millennium by Gabe Bokor
	Index 1997-2001
	Translator Profiles
	A Vocation Found by Danilo Nogueira
	The Profession
	The Bottom Line by Fire Ant & Worker Bee
	Existe-t-il des traducteurs spécialisés ? by Frédéric Houbert
	Translator Education
	Revision—Food for Thought by Nick Somers
	Program Evaluation—A Missing Critical Link in Translator Training by Moustafa Gabr
	Spanish
	Strategies for Translating "-ing" Adjectives and Nouns from English to Spanish by Constanza Gerding Salas
	Portuguese
	World Translation Contest by Danilo Nogueira
	Interpretation
	The Importance of Knowing Your Local Vernacular by Serghei G. Nikolayev, Ph.D.
	Advertising Translation
	Translation Practices in International Advertising by Mathieu Guidère, Ph.D.
	Science & Technology
	A Translator’s Guide to Organic Chemical Nomenclature XXII by Chester E. Claff, Jr., Ph.D.
	Dictionary Reviews
	The Very Mind of English?—Activate Your Mind, Socrates Style by Zsuzsanna Ardó
	The Very Heart of English?— Reflections on culture, fluency and the native speaker's head prompted by the LDELC by Zsuzsanna Ardó
	Two New Portuguese Dictionaries by Gabe Bokor
	Translators and Computers
	Machine Translation and the Future of the Translation Industry by Yves Champollion
	From Novelty to Ubiquity: Computers and Translation at the Close of the Industrial Age by Celia Rico Pérez
	Caught in the Web
	Web Surfing for Fun and Profit by Cathy Flick, Ph.D.
	Translators’ On-Line Resources by Gabe Bokor
	Translators’ Tools
	Using MS Word's Advanced Find and Replace Function by Tibor Környei
	Translators’ Emporium
	Letters to the Editor
	Translators’ Events
	Call for Papers and Editorial Policies

Translation Journal's First World Translation Contest

by Danilo Nogueira

he deadline for submitting entries for the First World Translation Contest, anounced in the last issue of the Translation Journal is rapidly approaching. On December 31, 2000, the contest will be closed, and the winner announced in this space.

For your convenience, we reproduce below the text to be translated into English and the terms and conditions of the Contest UNIVERSALIDADE DA JURISDIÇÃO. Postulado indeclinável do Estado de Direito, o Diploma Excelso o contempla por meio do artigo 5º XXXV, que hospeda a seguinte fraseologia "a lei não excluirá da apreciação do Poder Judiciário lesão ou ameaça a direito". Dito de outro modo, significa a garantia constitucional que assegura a qualquer pessoa o direito de bater às portas do Judiciário. Por sem dúvida, exprime um dos sustentáculos do Estado de Direito, incorporado entre nós pela Constituição de 1946, quando ensejou candente comentário de Pontes de Miranda ao dizer que foi "a mais típica e mais importante criação daquela Carta." Por força de seu conteúdo, nenhum diploma normativo pode estabelecer qualquer limitação que condicione o ingresso em juízo, como por exemplo, o esgotamento das vias administrativas, porquanto tal hipótese afigura-se decididamente conflitante com a dimensão semântica do aludido primado constitucional. The rules for the contest are a lot simpler that the above text.

1. You may submit as many entries as you want. Only submissions by e-mail will be accepted. All e-mails should be addressed to danilo.tradutor@uol.com.br. Only e-mails with "TRANSLATION JOURNAL CONTEST" in the subject line will be considered. Use a penname and one of those untraceable addresses that are so easy to get nowadays. If you do not know how to get one of those addresses, have a non-translator friend mail your entry. But, please, remember to ask your friend NOT to add something like "Hi! This is X's entry". In other words, if your entry is identified, you will be disqualified.

2. I will judge the entries, if any. I may ask some colleague for an opinion, but the final decision will be mine. If you don't like my decision, that is too bad. Don't sue me. Not worth the trouble. I am as poor as any translator.

3. Entries will be accepted until December 31, 2000. If you win, I will e-mail you for your name and address and later mail my next dictionary. No great prize. The dictionaries are very small and cost very little. Just a memento.

4. The results will be published in the first number of the Translation Journal for 2001.

5. There is no "right" solution. There can be several possible good translations for this paragraph. So you do not have to guess what the translation is.