Let’s kick off – #NewWords2020

Let’s kick off – #NewWords2020

The world around us is constantly changing. With new inventions, ideas and achievements, we gain not only greater life comfort and broader knowledge, but also… new words! We love to discover the expressions that pop up in various areas, and we enjoy sharing them even more. To this end, we have prepared a series of Facebook posts ? each day, we upload one word that has been recently added to the Oxford English online dictionary. Here, on our website, we are going to post weekly summaries of our action in social media. New words we have discovered this week In the first week of our #NewWords2020 action, we learnt some new scientific and informal words. Ready? Enoughness ? the quality or fact of being enough; sufficiency, adequacy. Denialist ? a person who denies the existence or reality of something, esp. something which is supported by the majority of scientific or

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Second webinar “Translation memories” (May 25, 2020)

Second webinar “Translation memories” (May 25, 2020)

Here comes the second webinar created by the MD Online team entitled ?Translation Memories?. In this webinar training, you will find out how what are Translation Memories and how to manage them and successfully apply them in your translation projects. Translation Memories often referred to as TMs, are one of the functionalities of CAT tools. In simple words, they are record storage of all texts translated within the translation software. Translation Memories work in two ways ? they store all the translation units (e.g. sentences) while the translator translates a text and at the same time, they analyze the text that is currently being translated and search the database for similar units. If the TM finds such a unit, it automatically puts the text into the editor. In this way, the translator can quickly accept, reject, or modify the TM entry. Yet, what is significant about Translation Memories is the

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Interesting facts about?Icelandic!

Interesting facts about?Icelandic!

There are many interesting languages across the globe, but Icelandic stands out when it comes to languages spoken in Europe. Historically, it was the westernmost Indo-European language until the 14th century! It is still a rather mysterious language as well as culture. Let us take a look at some of the interesting facts about Icelandic! ?did you know? Icelandic is a North Germanic language, further categorised as Insular Nordic, closely related to Faroese. Even though it belongs to the same language family as German and English, it is probably the farthest German language from those two. It is spoken by over 300 000 persons inhabiting Iceland as well as several thousand in Denmark, USA and Canada. Nearly all citizens declare this language as their mother tongue. The Icelandic Language Day is celebrated on 16 November. It is also the birthday of a prominent poet and naturalist, Jónas Hallgrímsson. His actions contributed

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