Found in Translation

RESOURCES
There are many associations for interpreters, translators, and language service
providers throughout the world. Here are some of the largest and most
important groups in the United States and Europe:
American Literary Translators Association (www.utdallas.edu/alta)
American Translators Association (www.atanet.org)
Association Internationale des Interprètes de Conférence (http://aiic.net)
The Association of Language Companies (www.alcus.org)
European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations (www.ceatl.eu)
European Language Industry Association (www.elia-association.org)
European Legal Interpreters and Translators Association (www.eulita.eu)
European Union of Associations of Translation Companies (www.euatc.org)
Globalization and Localization Association (www.gala-global.org)
International Federation of Translators (www.fit-ift.org)
International Medical Interpreters Association (www.imiaweb.org)
InterpretAmerica (www.interpretamerica.net)
National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators (www.najit.org)
National Council on Interpreting in Health Care (www.ncihc.org)
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (www.rid.org)

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INDEX
Aariak, Eva, 32
Academy Awards, 169
“actionable intelligence,” 4 9–50
active language, 196
Afghanistan War, 4 0, 4 1
Africa, 105, 193
Afrikaans, 75, 192, 217
Age of Spiritual Machines, The (Kurzweil), 230
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 4 7
Ahmed, Nazeer, 117–18
AIDS, 11
airline industry, 76–81
Al Bawaba, 10
Algic languages, 16
Algonquian, 29
Allen, Woody, 176
alliteration, 114
Al-Qaeda, 4 4
Alter, Robert, 114
America, 16–18, 19–20
American cuisine, 154
American Pie (movie), 177
American Sign Language (ASL), 167, 168
American University of Beirut, 117
America’s linguistic preparedness, 4 4 –4 7
Amharic, 86, 104
anagrams, 95–96
Anderson, Kirk, 158–60
Animal Crossing: Wild World (video game), 183
animation, 178–80
Annie Hall (movie), 176
Apple, 63–64 , 65, 223–24
appreciation of literary translators, 98–99
Apter, Ronnie, 173–74 , 175
Arabic and translation
pleasures, 130, 138
saving lives, 10, 18
storytelling and religion, 98–99, 117, 118
technology, 205, 208–10, 215, 217, 226–27
war and peace, 38, 4 2, 4 3, 4 5, 4 8, 59
Arawakan, 154
Argentina, 154 , 163

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Armenian, 161
Asher, Aaron, 98
Asher, Linda, 93
Asia, 73, 86, 95, 105, 115, 156, 215
Assad, Bashar al-, 4 9
Assamese, 105
astronauts, 81–84
Athabascan, 16
Athar, Shohaib, 199, 201
Atwood, Margaret, 33
Auden, W. H., 93
Auschwitz concentration camp, 34
Australia, 4 1, 163
auto manufacturers, 70
automated translation, 77, 203–4 , 218–19, 226, 227–28, 229, 231
automatic teller machines (ATMs), 75–76
Aymara, 75
back-translation, 136
Baio, Andrew, 71
Baird, Jessie Little Doe, 28, 29
Bangkok International Hospital, 138
Barabé, Donald, 30
baseball, 186–88
Bashir, Omar al-, 4 3
basketball, 184 –86
Basque, 75
Bayulgens, Okan, 200, 201
BBC, 4 2, 104
beauty pageants (international), 14 7–50
Behb d , Muhammad B qir, 118
Beijing, China, 195, 196, 197
bejuco daydreams, 103–6
Belgian, 151
Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas, 85–87
Bellugi, Ursula, 168
Bengali, 205
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Rajiv), 37–38
Benkala, North Bali, 171
Berlin Wall, 57
Berlusconi, Silvio, 59
Berne Convention, 97
beverage and food industry, 150–53
Bhutan, 50, 51
Bibles, 28, 112–13, 120, 220
Bing, 206
bin Laden, Osama, 199
bird flu, 9–10, 11
Bislama, 208
Björk, 78
Bohemian, 135