Found in Translation

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, A (movie), 223
Hmong, 20, 76
Honda Fitta, 70
Hong Kong, 163
Hong Xiuquan, 109–10
Houston Rockets, 185
HP, 216
HSBC, 65
Hsia, Tim, 39
Hugo, Victor, 93
Hungarian, 58, 100, 114
Hupa, 208
Hurd, Carla, 221
hydrocortisone, 90–91
Icelandic, 78–81, 100, 161
Igbo, 215
IKEA and Danish product names, 65–68

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I’ll Scream Later (Matlin), 169
Ilocano, 86
immigrants, 16–18, 19–20
Incas, 75, 154
India, 162, 163, 165, 204 , 208
Indic, 215
Indonesian, 105, 206
industry of translation, xiii, 73–75
inserito scidulam, 75
International Science Fair, 230
International Space Station (ISS), 81–84
Internet, 24 , 32, 61, 74 , 131, 134 , 14 3, 177, 199, 202, 205, 207, 209, 211
Internet memes, 183–84
interpretation vs. translation, 4 3
interpreters, xiv, 233–35
See also translation
intoxicado, 4 –5, 6
Intuits (Eskimos), 31–32
Inuktitut, 31–32, 76
iPhones and iPads, 24
iPods, 64
Iran, 19, 50, 228
Iraq, 19, 20, 38, 39, 4 0, 4 1
Irish, 21–25, 58, 75, 161, 165
Iroquoian, 16
Islam, 115, 117–18
Israel, 176
Italian and translation
business, 85, 86
entertainment industry, 173, 174 , 176, 177
pleasures, 127, 135, 14 4 , 14 5, 152
technology, 206, 211
war and peace, 58
Japanese and translation
business, 68–69, 75, 85, 87–89
entertainment industry, 181, 182, 183, 186, 187
pleasures, 134 , 138, 14 7, 151, 158, 161, 163, 164
saving lives, 4
storytelling and religion, 97
technology, 205, 206, 217, 226
Jason, Jack, 167, 168–70
Java, 227
Jefferson, Thomas, 50
Jerome (Saint), 112–13, 114
Jerry Springer Show, The (TV show), 234
Jobs, Steve, 207
John Paul II (Pope), 234
Johnson, Lyndon (President), 55–56, 230
Johnson-Davies, Denys, 98–99
Jordan, Penny, 127–28
Joseph, Rajiv, 37–38
Journey of Ibn Fattouma, The (Mahfouz), 99

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Jua, María Clara Sharupi, 104 , 106
Judaism, 114
justice system, 17–18, 20–21
Kalderash, 27
Kama Sutra, 129–30
Kata Kolok sign language, 171
Keegan, Te Taka, 220, 221, 222–23
Kelly, Nataly, xiv, 1–3, 123–25
ke nako, 193
Kendigelen, Erden, 85, 86–87
Kennedy, John F. (President), 56, 57–58
keyboards (computer), 215–17
Khalidi, Tarif, 117, 118
Khmer, 138, 208, 212
Khrushchev, Nikita, 36
Kiesinger, Kurt, 55
Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, 4 9
King, Larry, 169
King James Bible, 120
King Lear (Shakespeare), 24
Kjöller, Klaus, 67
Knocked Up (movie), 176–77
Komac, Andrej, 191
K nyin Multilanguage Keyboard, 216
Koran translation, 117–18
Korean, 17, 75, 138, 14 7, 158, 161, 205, 206, 209
Koza (Okinawa), 133
Kravtsova, Irina, 171–72
Kriegstheater, 37
Kundera, Milan, 93, 98
Kurdish, 4 5, 105
Kurds, 19
Kuroda, Hiroki, 187
Kurzweil, Ray, 230–32
labels (food), reading, 152–53
language as force of socialization, 199
Language Interface Packs (LIPs), Microsoft, 220, 221
language service providers (LSPs), 73–75
Lao, 138
Latin, 23, 112, 113, 14 1
Latin America, 64 , 105, 135, 14 9, 155, 156, 176, 177
Latvian, 58, 153
Lavrov, Sergey, 52
Lee, Ron, 27
Less, Peter, 33–36
Liberians, 20–21
libretto translation, 173–76
Life in Hell (Groening), 178
lifeline (emergency calls), 1–3
LinkedIn, 205–7
“literals,” 104 –5

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Lithuanian, 58, 86, 153