BIBLOS TRANSLATIONS

PROSPEROUS, word of the day

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According to the Webster Dictionary

marked by vigorous growth and well-being especially economically <a prosperous business that will soon be expanding>

Synonyms booming, boomy, flourishing, golden, halcyon, healthy, lush, palmy, prospering, roaring, successful, thriving

Related Words affluent, moneyed (also monied), opulent, rich, substantial, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do; comfortable

Near Antonyms declining, dying, failing, floundering, languishing, struggling; bankrupt, bankrupted, insolvent

Antonyms depressed, unprosperous, unsuccessful

having attained a desired end or state of good fortune <one of the most prosperous families in the community>

Synonyms flourishing, going, palmy, prosperous, thriving, triumphant

Related Words coming, promising; booming, growing, roaring, robust; boffo, gangbusters (also gangbuster), runaway, socko

Near Antonyms futureless, hopeless, inauspicious, no-good, unpromising; collapsing, failing, flopping, flunking, folding, washing-out; declining, slipping, slumping, waning; bankrupt, kaput (also kaputt), kerflooey; destroyed, ruined, wrecked

Antonyms failed, unsuccessful

growing thickly and vigorously <our neighbor has a real green thumb and a yard full of healthy, prosperous plants>

Synonyms lush, luxuriant, prosperous, rampant, weedy

Related Words lavish, profuse; overgrown, overrun, verdant; close, dense, tangled, thick

Near Antonyms dormant; blighted, stunted

Antonyms sparse

According to the Longman Dictionary

pros‧per‧ous formal|rich and successful:

WORD CHOICE:

rich, well-off, wealthy, affluent, prosperousRich is a very direct way of saying that someone has a lot of money and possessions

• one of the richest women in America Well-off means fairly rich, so you can buy most things. People are more likely to describe themselves as 'well-off' than 'rich'

• My parents were pretty well-off.Wealthy is a slightly more formal word meaning rich, especially over a long period of time

• He came from a wealthy family.Affluent and prosperous are fairly formal words, often used to describe societies where the economy is successful and the standard of living is good.Affluent means rich enough to have things like expensive cars and holidays

• People are becoming increasingly affluent.Prosperous means rich and successful

• the more prosperous regions of the country.

According to the Oxford Dictionary

successful in material terms ; flourishing financially:prosperous middle-class professionals

bringing wealth and success:we wish you a prosperous New Year

MISCONSTRUE, word of the day

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According to the Oxford Dictionary

interpret (something, especially a person's words or actions) wrongly:my advice was deliberately misconstrued

According to the Webster Dictionary

verb

: to understand or explain wrongly : misinterpret

EXAMPLES

According to the candidate, her comments about the city's schools were misconstrued by the media.

According to the Longman Dictionary

to misunderstand something that someone has said or done:

His behaviour could easily be misconstrued.

EKPHRASIS, word of the day

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According to the Oxford Dictionary

1. Unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable:the ineluctable facts of history

According to the Webster Dictionary

: not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable

Example: Even the best athletes have to contend with the ineluctable fact that they will grow older and must someday face opponents who are younger, faster, and stronger.

According to the Longman Dictionary

: impossible to avoid

CONTENTION, word of the day

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According to the Oxford Dictionary

Pronunciation:/kənˈtenCHən, kənˈtɛn(t)ʃən/ noun

1. heated disagreement:the captured territory was one of the main areas of contention between the two countries

2. an assertion, especially one maintained in argument:statistics bear out his contention that many runners are undertrained for this event

Origin:

late Middle English: from Latin contentio(n-), from contendere 'strive with' (see contend)

Phrases

in contention: having a good chance of success in a contest:he was in contention for the batting title in September

Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin contentio(n-), from contendere 'strive with' (see contend)

According to the Webster Dictionary

1: an act or instance of contending

2: a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument

3: rivalry, competition

According to the Longman Dictionary

1 [countable] formal a strong opinion that someone expresses

somebody's contention that

2 [uncountable] formal argument and disagreement between people

source/area/point of contention

3 in contention

having a chance of winning something:

Owen's goal kept England in contention.

4 out of contention

no longer having a chance of winning something:

Injury has put him out of contention for the title.

WORD FORMATION PROCESSES

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Word and word-formation processess

Etymology The study of the origin and history of a word.

Coinage The invention of totally new terms. Usuallly the coinage is an invented trademark for commercial products that become general terms for any version of that product

Aspirin nylon vaseline zipper kleenex teflon tylenol xerox

New words based on the name of a person or a place are called eponyms

Sandwich (from Earl the Sandwich)

Jeans (from Genoa)

Some eponyms are technical terms, based on the names of those who first discovered or invented things

Fahrenheit (Gabriel Fahrenheit)

Volt (Alessandro Volta)

Watt (James Watt)

Borrowing The taking over of words from other languages.

Croissant, dope, lilac, piano, pretzel

Sofa, tattoo, Tycoon, yogurt, zebra

Loan translation or calque: there is a direct translation of the elements of a word into the borrowing language.

Skyscraper :::: gratte-ciel, wolkenkrabber, wolenkratzer.

Superman :::: a loan from German

Loan word :::: also a loan from german lehnwort

Compounding The joining of two separate words to produce a single form.

Bookcase, doorknob, fingerprint, sunburn

Blending The combination of two separate forms to produce a single new term. It is typically accomplished by taking only the beginning of one word and joining it to the end of the other word.

Smoge (smoke/fog) | Smaze (smoke/haze)

Smurk (smoke/murk) | Bit (binary/digit)

Motel (motor/hotel) | Brunch (breakfast/lunch)

Telecast (television/broadcast) | Chunnel (channel/tunnel)

In a few blends, we combine the beginnings of both words, as in terms from information technology

Telex (teleprinter/exchange) | modem (modulator/demodulator)

Clipping a word of more than one syllable is reduced to a shorter.

Facsimile > fax | Gasoline > gas

Hypocorisms, a longer word is reduced to a single syllable, then –y or –ie is added to the end.

Telly > television | Movie > moving pictures

Backformation A word of one type (usually a noun) is reduced to form a word of another type (usually a verb).

Televise > television | Donate > donation

One regular source of backformed verbs in English is based on the pattern worker – work. The assumption that if there is a noun ending in –er, then we can create a verb for what that noun –er does.

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Burgle burglar

Swindle swindler

Conversion A change in the function of a word, as for example when a noun comes to be used as a verb (without any reduction).

N à Vb bottle butter chair vacation impact

Vb à N a guess a must a spy

Some words change their meaning when they change categories

a doctor (positive)

to doctor (negative)

Acronyms They are new words formed from the initial letters of a set of other words.

CD compact disk

VCR video cassete recorder

NATO, NASA, UNESO

MADD mothers against drunk driving

Laser radar scuba zip

Derivation it is the most common word-formation process to be found, and it is accomplished by means of affixes.

ž Prefixes affixes added at the beginning of the word.

ž Suffixes affixes added at the end of the word.

ž Infixes affixes added inside another word.

Hallebloodylujah! Absogoddamlutely unfuckinbelievable

singabloodypore

Multiple processess It is possible to trace the operation of more than one process at work int he creation of a particular word.

Deli [ borrowing from delicatessen, and clipping]

Snowballed [compounding—snow/ball—and conversion into verb]

Lase [acronym laser, and backformed]

Waspish [acronym WASP, and derived –ish]

Analogy: new words are formed to be similar in some way to existing words.

Yuppie [acronym yup, and hypocorism –ie, and analogy of hippie]

Hippie [analogy of yippy]

Yippie [acronym for ‘youth international party’]

Yap [analogy of yappies]

MISCELLANEOUS, word of the day

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Definitions:

According to the Oxford Dictionary

Pronunciation:/ˌmisəˈlānēəs, ˈˌmɪsəˈleɪniəs/
Adjective
(of items or people gathered or considered together ) of various types or from different sources:he picked up the miscellaneous papers
(of a collection or group) composed of members or elements of different kinds:a miscellaneous collection of well-known ne'er-do-wells

According to the Longman Dictionary

mis‧cel‧la‧ne‧ous [only before noun]
a miscellaneous set of things or people includes many different things or people who do not seem to be connected with each other:
a miscellaneous assortment of books

They receive a grant of £1094 to cover the cost of miscellaneous expenses.

According to the Webster Dictionary

1: consisting of diverse things or members : heterogeneous
2 a : having various traits b : dealing with or interested in diverse subjects <as a writer I was too miscellaneous — George Santayana>
— mis·cel·la·neous·ly adverb

— mis·cel·la·neous·ness noun

IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING

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Since the development of writing, translation has been a topic of discussion for thinkers all around the globe.

And the governing issue was the impossibility of translation.

The translation of poetry was madness.

A complete waste of time was attempting to translate lyrics.

And do not even try to translate humor.

Even the translation of prose was questioned.

Nowadays, subtitling and dubbling are the great challenges for translator.

And yet, somehow, translators have managed to overcome such linguistic barriers.

Due to brave translators who have had the courage to take on the task of translating Shakespear's sonnets, or Neruda's poetry, society can now enjoy reading the most amazing literature works ever.

The original is unfaithful to the translation

J.L.Borges

MACHINE TRANSLATION?

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COMPUTER TRANSLATION by Alfredo Villaescusa

A translation exceeds the limits of grammar and syntax. A translation goes beyond words and their meanings. A translation is to see behind the letters, behind the commas, behind the signs. A translation is reading between lines that which the author has left unknonw and only the human mind can find. A translation is understanding a speech and be able to reproduce it in other words.

A basic concept in translations:

I cannot translate that which I do not understand

One question: do machines understand texts? Can they analize them semantically? Can an machine translator provide different translation options according to the possible interpretations? NEVER.

PROPER NAMES and their translation

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Should proper names be translated? Or should we, translators, just leave the names as they are?

It is a well known fact that translators, each have a different style when translating. Some may choose not to translate; others may choose a morphological and phonological adaptation to the other language.And others, just change the name entirely.

Are there any right choises?

When translating, any text, what it is most important is to be coherent throughout the translation. So, if a linguist decides to leave each name in their original form, as long as he respects that decison along the entire text, it is correct. If all names are translated, that is correct too.

In translation, there are no rights and wrongs. Everything is subjective.

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BIBLOS TRANSLATIONS

PROSPEROUS, word of the day

MISCONSTRUE, word of the day

EKPHRASIS, word of the day

CONTENTION, word of the day

1. heated disagreement:the captured territory was one of the main areas of contention between the two countries

2. an assertion, especially one maintained in argument:statistics bear out his contention that many runners are undertrained for this event

Origin:

Phrases

in contention

3 in contention

having a chance of winning something:

WORD FORMATION PROCESSES

MISCELLANEOUS, word of the day

According to the Oxford Dictionary

(of items or people gathered or considered together ) of various types or from different sources:he picked up the miscellaneous papers

IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING

MACHINE TRANSLATION?

PROPER NAMES and their translation

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