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Latin makes Vatican City comeback

In the new Vatican of Pope Benedict XVI, Latin is in and Polish, the language of John Paul II, is out.

Latin may be considered a dead language today, but for many centuries it was the language of the Catholic Church.

Forty years ago the Vatican decided to drop Latin as the official language of the mass and switch to the vernacular.

In the 1990s, even bishops stopped talking to each other in Latin when they went to official meetings at the Vatican.

When he was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI originally supported the idea of dropping the Latin mass.

Now he is Pope, he has apparently had a rethink and Italians are struggling to keep up.

Latin language courses at the Papal University are already oversubscribed.

Italian schools dropped Latin as a compulsory language many years ago and classics pundits are being called in to explain the terminology on television.

Vatican watchers are reaching again for their Latin primers.

- Via BBC News, Rome - By David Willey - 22 April 2005

Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity

The "visible web" is what you see in the results pages from general web search engines. It's also what you see in almost all subject directories.

The "invisible web" is what you cannot retrieve ("see") in the search results and other links contained in these types of tools.

IT>IT Glossario dei termini medici

20.000 lemmi sanitari.

ApSIC Xbench is an integrated reference tool aimed to provide a clear and structured view of the terminology of any translation project. 

ApSIC Comparator is a freeware tool that allows you to create side-by-side reports with all the changes made to a translation by a reviewer.  These comparison reports can be used both to evaluate the quality of the translation and to provide feedback to the translator

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri collection

"Thousands of previously illegible manuscripts containing work by some of the greats of classical literature are being read for the first time using technology which experts believe will unlock the secrets of the ancient world. Among treasures already discovered by a team from Oxford University are previously unseen writings by classical giants including Sophocles, Euripides and Hesiod. Invisible under ordinary light, the faded ink comes clearly into view when placed under infra-red light, using techniques developed from satellite imaging. The Oxford documents form part of the great papyrus hoard salvaged from an ancient rubbish dump in the Graeco-Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus more than a century ago. The thousands of remaining documents, which will be analysed over the next decade, are expected to include works by Ovid and Aeschylus, plus a series of Christian gospels which have been lost for up to 2,000 years".

- Via The Independent

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Translation and Its Discontents: A Memoir

In this easygoing ramble through a distinguished career, Gregory Rabassa -- the esteemed translator of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude , Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch , and dozens of other modern classics of the Latin American fiction "boom" -- comes across as a charming (if somewhat garrulous) old coot. His style is loose and conversational, utterly without airs. He prefers digression to exposition, makes terrible puns and drops in repeated references to old jazz songs and even older movie stars. Rabassa also writes with striking honesty about his disdain for the New York publishing industry and his dislike for academic literary criticism. Such humanity and a sometimes contentious forthrightness are unexpected from an eminent, if retired, Columbia professor.

- Via Washington Post