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Blogging to build bridges between legal translators, lawyers and academia.

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12 Oct 2022
W2D2023 – Full steam ahead! wordstodeeds.com/2022/10/12/…

W2D2023 – Full steam ahead!

I am delighted to announce that the conference programme for the conference “Legal Translation and Risk” is now fully final, and we are good to go for Saturday 28 to Sunday 29 January 2023. Don’t m…

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Job vacancy – Head of Terminology, NATO wordstodeeds.com/2023/05/17/…

Job vacancy – Head of Terminology, NATO

NATO has advertised for a Head of Terminology, based in Brussels, Belgium, with application deadline 31 May 2023. The Head, NATO Terminology Office (NTO) is responsible for the NATO Terminology Pro…

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Monday smile – Get out of jail with Monopoly card wordstodeeds.com/2023/05/15/…

Monday smile – Get out of jail with Monopoly card

During a traffic stop in Chisago [not a typo] County, a driver surprised law enforcement by presenting a ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card from the board game Monopoly. The Chisago County She…

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UNESCO launches Women4Ethical AI expert platform to advance gender equality wordstodeeds.com/2023/05/10/…

UNESCO launches Women4Ethical AI expert platform to advance gender equality

In late April, UNESCO, in line with its work to implement a global ethical framework for artificial intelligence, launched Women4Ethical AI, a new collaborative platform to support governments and …

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Monday smile – Password trouble wordstodeeds.com/2023/05/08/…

Monday smile – Password trouble

Well, it’s IT upgrade time again at W2D HQ. Hence the silence (and anguished cries)… So my apologies to readers of this blog for the brief hiatus. We are now back on track! Have a great…

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Book publication – Translating Crises wordstodeeds.com/2023/04/15/…

Book publication – Translating Crises

Translating Crises, recently published by Bloomsbury, explores the challenges and demands involved in translating crises and the ways in which people, technologies and organisations look for effect…

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Free online courses on public policy by the United Nations (EN, FR, ES, PT, Arabic) wordstodeeds.com/2023/04/14/…

Free online courses on public policy by the United Nations (EN, FR, ES, PT, Arabic)

The UN System Staff College (UNSSC) is committed to innovative learning and training programmes focused on public policy. It offers a range of courses either online, face-to-face, or a combination …

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Monolingual and Parallel Legal Corpora of Arabic and English Countries’ Constitutions wordstodeeds.com/2023/04/12/…

Monolingual and Parallel Legal Corpora of Arabic and English Countries’ Constitutions

We have news this week from a good friend of this blog (and speaker at the WordstoDeeds Conference 2017 at Gray’s Inn), Dr Hanem El-Farahaty. She informs us of the publication of her latest p…

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Monday smile – Sneezing dragons go head to head wordstodeeds.com/2023/04/10/…

Monday smile – Sneezing dragons go head to head

We have all had to read tedious and sterile judgments. So when one comes along illustrated with cuddly green dragons, life immediately becomes more cheerful. Last week the English legal commentator…

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The Dictionaries Conference 2023 – Call for papers wordstodeeds.com/2023/04/06/…

The Dictionaries Conference 2023 – Call for papers

The Dictionaries Conference aims to bring together specialists and professionals in the areas of lexicology and lexicography to disseminate and discuss current and relevant themes and lines of rese…

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Monday smile – Lawyers and their clients (Part 1) wordstodeeds.com/2023/04/03/…

Monday smile – Lawyers and their clients (Part 1)

Legal translators often discuss how to best communicate with their clients, and so when I came across these humorous descriptions of lawyers’ own clients I just couldn’t resist. Oh yes,…

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Practice Note on interpreters at Federal Court, Australia wordstodeeds.com/2023/03/30/…

Practice Note on interpreters at Federal Court, Australia

A new Federal Court Practice Note has just been issued by the Chief Justice, mainly to implement the recent second edition of the Recommended National Standards for Working with Interpreters in Cou…

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Monday smile – San Serriffe wordstodeeds.com/2023/03/27/…

Monday smile – San Serriffe

April Fools’ Day is fast approaching, and on that subject a reader of this blog made me aware of a hoax (stroke of genius) by The Guardian newspaper in the 1970s. The “small archipelago…

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Call for papers – EULETA Legal English Conference VIII wordstodeeds.com/2023/03/22/…

Call for papers – EULETA Legal English Conference VIII

The EULETA Legal English Conference VIII will be held from Friday 22nd to Saturday 23rd September 2023 in Warsaw, Poland, co-organised by Kozminski University Language Centre and EULETA, the Europe…

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Monday smile – The Paperwork wordstodeeds.com/2023/03/20/…

Monday smile – The Paperwork

Planning to start the week by being dutiful on the admin side? Horrid but it’s got to be done… Have a great (and productive) week! 😊

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Video guide to EU call for tenders wordstodeeds.com/2023/03/17/…
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Glossary (FR) – INSEE wordstodeeds.com/2023/03/14/…

Glossary (FR) – INSEE

The other day I came across a helpful and succinct set of definitions ranging across many fields, published by the French Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE). The …

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Monday smile – Cat calls wordstodeeds.com/2023/03/13/…

Monday smile – Cat calls

Zoom fatigue? See below. Enjoy your week! Oh, and if you need a legal connection to this smile, see “Consolidated Cat Laws” from Michegan State University’s Animal Legal and Histo…

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HCCH adopts Spanish as third official language wordstodeeds.com/2023/03/12/…

HCCH adopts Spanish as third official language

In a historic decision this week, Spanish was adopted as third official language of the HCCH – Hague Conference on Private International Law as of 1 July 2024. The official announcement notes…

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Survey on ergonomics and health among translators and editors wordstodeeds.com/2023/03/07/…

Survey on ergonomics and health among translators and editors

The estimable Emma Goldsmith, a medical translator with a background in nursing, is conducting an anonymous survey to gain an overview of workstation set-ups, break strategies, and upper-body probl…

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