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Joomla- Getting Online Without HTML (Part 1:Overview)
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In this article series, I will be taking you through the steps necessary to build a professional online presence for yourself, without knowing anything about HTML, without hiring a web designer, and without buying into any of the $30+ per month 'design-a-site' solutions. The current article provides an overview of how Joomla, a free and open-source content management system, can be used to build your web presence. Future articles will deal with the practical steps of customizing your Joomla site to reflect your business and increase your profits.
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Linguistic Barriers in Crisis Response - The Critical Need for Ontological Awareness
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An exploration of how linguistic barriers, ontological reality, and cultural hyperobjects impact survival and human dignity in emergency response and NGO contexts, and how information context saves lives.
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Vijf valkuilen bij het vertalen van Belgische gerechtelijke stukken naar het Frans
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Belgische procedurestukken naar het Frans vertalen lijkt eenvoudig omdat er al een Franse rechtstaal bestaat. Precies daarin schuilt het gevaar. Vijf terugkerende fouten — vonnis tegenover arrest, de hervorming van 2018, de partijbenamingen in hoger beroep, Belgisch tegenover Frans Frans, en het feit dat de officiële Franse tekst van de wet al bestaat — met telkens de reden waarom zij meer kosten dan zij lijken te kosten.
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Ten Things I Learned the Hard Way About Medical Translation
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The article argues that terminology is the easy part of medical translation, and that what really separates a usable file from a dangerous one is a set of working habits—ten of which make up the body of the piece. Decide who the reader is before translating anything, since clinician-facing and patient-facing documents demand different registers and consent forms carry readability ceilings. Never expand an abbreviation the document itself doesn't disambiguate. Run numbers, units and decimal separators as their own dedicated pass, and don't convert units unasked. On patient-reported outcome instruments, write naturally rather than calquing to flatter the back-translation. Keep a fixed source hierarchy, running from client glossary through regulatory templates and national references down to dictionaries, and follow it. Write queries that do the work for whoever answers them: location, ambiguity, options, recommendation. Flag source errors rather than silently repairing them, especially in certified work. Mark illegible handwriting as illegible instead of guessing a drug name. Use several narrow QA passes rather than one broad one, and read patient-facing text aloud. Decline work outside your subject competence. Closing it out is a case study of a hospital medical record — described structurally only, with no client, patient or clinical content disclosed — covering the six difficulties that job actually presented: a table-heavy composite file that stripped sentence context inside the CAT tool, the tension between layout fidelity and legibility once the target expanded, deciding which institutional identifiers had to stay in the source language for the document to remain verifiable, carrying reference ranges and units exactly as the issuing laboratory reported them, resisting the urge to upgrade non-standard clinical shorthand into polished standard English, and rendering context-free interface strings inside fixed cell widths. The translation itself turned out to be the smallest component of that job, which is more or less the point: this field rewards unglamorous discipline above all.
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Categorization of Translation Mistakes Made by Artificial Intelligence
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After broaching the primary artificial intelligence issues for translation in the first article of this series, I will delve into the weaknesses at greater length here. The initial article contains a brief description of four categories of errors: style, harmonization, terminology and interpretation of abstractions/references. Those types of mistakes are critical for the stakeholders in the translation process (client/customer, language service provider, and translator). In this article, I will address these in greater depth, while also adding a few other types of flaws.
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Should the Translator Take the Reader to the Author, or the Author to the Reader?
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Foreignisation and domestication are two fundamental approaches in translation. This article explores how translators balance cultural fidelity and readability, and why the most appropriate strategy often depends on the purpose, genre and target audience of the text.
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