Terminology articles, resources, and more! Earlier this year I shared some useful links on terminology. I am adding more links found all over the Internet and social media. As my working languages are also Spanish, French, and Portuguese, I include a few more links in those languages, plus some tools at the end. Feel free to share with me your favorite terminology links by writing to inmyownterms@yahoo.com. Enjoy! MULTILINGUAL Gender-related terminology: If you encounter any of these terms, you will find their translation in IATE, validated by the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality. On the same note, YourTermFEM is one of the programs under the Terminology Without Borders initiative that includes a termbase of concepts addressing women’s rights. This is a joint effort by Université Paris Diderot and Università degli Studi di Padova. Avibase is a multilingual database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 27 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information for 20,000 regions, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages, and more. This site is managed by Denis Lepage and hosted by Bird Studies Canada, the Canadian copartner of Birdlife International. Fishbase is a global biodiversity information system on finfishes. Its initial goal to provide key facts on population dynamics for 200 major commercial species has now grown to have a wide range of information on all species currently known in the world: taxonomy, biology, trophic ecology, life history, and uses, as well as historical data reaching back to 250 years. At present, FishBase covers >33,000 fish species compiled from >52,000 references in partnership with >2,000 collaborators: >300,000 common names and >55,000 pictures. ENGLISH Acceptable and unacceptable disability terminology. Calvert Trust is a company in the UK that offers outdoor adventure activities and created this very useful page to make sure people use the correct terms. Emotions get lost in translation. Forbes. December 2019. A short article on the challenges of translating emotions. An interview by TermCoord with Mojca Pecman, Associate Professor on translation studies at the Department of Intercultural Studies and Applied languages – Études Interculturelles de Langues Appliquées (EILA) – of Université de Paris where she teaches terminology, phraseology, discourse analysis, term management, and database design. Award-winning PhD thesis on terminology “Migration on Translation” by Dr. Jessica Mariani “was born from the hypothesis that a historical and socio-political phenomenon like the migration crisis can be looked at through the lens of terminology.” It was funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. “Arrogate” and other pesky impeachment terms by Mary Norries of The New Yorker. 2019 Words of the year: Merriam-Webster: “they” – dictionary.com: “existential” – Oxford “climate emergency”. 28 Beautiful Words for Love from Around the World. Valentine’s Day may be overrated for many, but I couldn’t help including these love-related words in Greek, ASL, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic, Irish, Sanskrit, and (drum roll) Klingon! IATE’s Terms of the Week. We learn new terms every week thanks to IATE. Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment. The Guardian has updated its style guide to introduce terms that more accurately describe the environmental crises facing the world. Why you should care about terminology management, even if you never translate a single term, by Uwe Muegge, Facebook’s Head terminologist, published in one of the latest ATA Chronicle. (downloadable file) How Facebook Scaled Terminology Management by Marion Marking from slator.com Machine language – A guide to chatbot terminology. A short infographic for quick reading. What is an exoplanet? – 2019 laureates James Peebles, Michel Mayor, and Didier Queloz received the Nobel Prize in Physics. Since they discovered exoplanet 51 Pegasi 1, 4.000 more exoplanets have been discovered! William Whewell (1794-1866) said that “good terminology summarizes scientific progress, facilitates classification, and aids in accurate reasoning.” It is perhaps fitting, then, that we owe a number of common terms, both in the sciences and about the sciences, to him. He was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science. COVID-19 Multilingual Poster-Maker, a community project by Translation Commons that reaches out to all remote communities around the globe to inform on the proper steps to “Stop Coronavirus” by “Doing the Five” basic health precautions. Just type the language name and choose from the drop-down menu. The Association of LGBTQ Journalists Stylebook Supplement on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Terminology is intended to complement the stylebooks of individual publications, as well as the Associated Press stylebook, the leading stylebook in U.S. newsrooms. The Terminology of the rights of the child contains 48 terms related to the rights listed in the 1989 Child Rights Convention. English, Spanish, French, Catalan. Four new terms for the misinformation age: Viral sloganeering, keyword squatting, leak forgery, evidence collaging. ‘Master/Slave’ terminology was removed from Python programming language. The terminology has been a point of contention in the tech community for nearly two decades and now it was just removed from one of the most popular programming languages in the world. “For diversity reasons, it would be nice to try to avoid ‘master’ and ‘slave’ terminology, which can be associated with slavery,” Victor Stinner, a developer with the open-source software company Red Hat, wrote. What is “cancel culture”. You can cancel Netflix subscriptions, Amazon orders, and even Zoom happy hours, and now you can cancel people. TERF is an acronym for transgender exclusionary radical feminist, a term reportedly coined more than a decade ago by a cisgender heterosexual woman who works as a writer in Sydney, Australia. FORBES discusses this topic in light of J.K. Rowling’s tweets. MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline a huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic terms. Applications, websites, and other products relying on neural networks trained using MIT’s dataset may end up using these terms when analyzing photographs and camera footage. Oxford English Dictionary updates COVID-19 terminology. Their latest blog post on this topic. Using corpora to track the language of COVID-19. OED monitors the use of COVID-19 language by running monthly searches to analyze word count of keywords. No wonder burofax is a trending term after Messi expressed his wish to leave Barça. What is a burofax and why did Messi use one to tell Barcelona he wants out? Music glossary just for fun! In English only but short enough to just “unplug” for a second—pun intended! Solar Panel terminology and definitions by LG Business Solutions Terminology standards bridging gaps between health systems during COVID-19. Terminology services help two health systems talk to each other and make the information stored within them, useful to both patients and practitioners across the care journey. The HL7 2.x or FHIR API standards are the messengers that help deliver the language from one system to another. A simple example is the way different clinicians would write COVID-19 (is it COVID-19 or COVID 19 or just COVID?). Climate change: should we change the terminology? Could terms like ‘climate crisis’, ‘climate collapse’, and ‘global meltdown’ do a better job of altering our behavior? Iceland is inventing a new terminology for a high-tech future. Language planners, led by linguist Ari Páll Kristinsson, are working furiously to match every English word or concept with an Icelandic one—giving young Icelanders no excuse for depending on loanwords learned online. com revises definitions to eliminate prejudiced language. Dictionary.com is making major changes to more than 15,000 of its definitions, from capitalizing Black to updating entries about sexual orientation, aiming to foreground people over “clinical language”. Across the board, Dictionary.com’s language referring to LGBTQIA people has been revised to change “homosexual” to “gay” and “homosexuality” to “gay sexual orientation”, with the dictionary saying that the changes would put “the focus on people… removing the implication of a medical diagnosis, sickness, or pathology when describing normal human behaviors and ways of being”. How Linguists Are Using Urban Dictionary. Urban Dictionary allows researchers to track terms that are too recent or too niche to appear in establishment dictionaries and to determine how people are using English online. SPANISH La palabra del Año 2019 de Fundéu fue emoji. Las otras palabras candidatas fueron electromovilidad, desglobalización, neonegacionismo, exhumación, DANA, huachicolero, seriéfilo, influente, albañila, cúbit y superdesempate. Por su parte la RAE escogió 14 palabras que definieron 2019 El Portal de Terminología de la Wikilengua en español da acceso a interesantes recursos como Terminesp, un banco terminológico que ofrece definiciones dadas en las normas españolas UNE de varias decenas de miles de términos, con equivalencias en otras lenguas. Es un esfuerzo conjunto de AETER, AENOR y Fundéu BBVA. El Manual de Estilo Sobre La Comunidad Lesbiana, Gay, Bisexual y Transgénero. La Asociación Nacional de Periodistas Lesbianas y Gays, incluye periodistas, profesionales, educadores y estudiantes que trabajan en los medios de comunicación y promueven la inclusión de la comunidad lesbiana, gay, bisexual y transgénero (LGBT). El Diccionario Visual de Geografía Física fue creado por la Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Extremadura, España y se divide en seis secciones muy útiles para entender conceptos: (1) Tierra y Universo, (2) Cartografía, (3) Relieve, (4) Clima, (5) Hidrografía y (6) Glosario. PORTUGUESE Mejores diccionarios de portugués y bilingües para tus traducciones por traducirportugues.com.ar FRENCH Outil de terminologie juridique en français – Boîte à outils by Jurisource.ca French-English glossary of naval defense, This glossary or lexicon is intended for French-to-English translators and writers specializing in technical journalism. The document attempts to deal with a terminological challenge specific to journalism, namely access to and equivalents for the many synonyms, multiple technical designations, and other devices that journalists use in both English and French — though perhaps even more in the latter than in the former — to avoid repetitions. Downloadable for dtSearch. La Société française de terminologie est une société savante à but non lucratif. Elle a pour but de “promouvoir et soutenir toute action en matière de terminologie et disciplines associées” (Journal officiel du 29 mai 1999). TERMINOLOGY TOOLS TBX Exporter converts .xls, .csv or .xslx files to .tbx format Watch a 2-minute tutorial on how to use the new IATE2. Did you know? UNESCO’s Index Translatorium is a database containing cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published by UNESCO.