The Lingo-ist, April 2007
The following articles are from the April 2007 edition of The Lingo-ist
Rage against the machine?
A human translator studies a source text, 'decodes' its meaning and then 're-encodes' this to the target language. Sounds simple enough - so simple that a machine could do it. And of course it can. With automatic translation tools so readily available on the Internet, is it time for the human translator to be worried? No, not yet..
Lingo-ist-ics
Another serving of linguistic bloopers, blunders and ...faux pas (for want of another word beginning with 'b').
Out of the mouths of babes...
The nature versus nurture debate with regard to language acquisition is long-running. Is our ability to produce and comprehend language innate, or a natural process of learning resulting from exposure to a cultural and linguistic environment?