http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/MegaBBS/forum-view.asp?forumid=11 TC Discussion Forums Copyright ANVICA Software Development 2002-2009. All rights reserved. TC RSS Generator 21 Nov 2009 20:27 GMT http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/images/SteamingCup40.gif http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/MegaBBS/category-view.asp?showall=true /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread15183msg189938.htm#189938 Derek Thornton: It has been reported that British scientists now believe that kissing developed to spread germs. They are reported as saying that the uniquely human habit allows a bug that is dangerous in pregnancy to be passed from man to woman to give her time to build up immunity. Cytomegalovirus , found in ... 21 Nov 2009 17:16 GMT /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread3988msg189935.htm#189935 Jacek K.: http://www.utne.com/Science-Technology/Stupid-People-High-IQ-tests-.aspx?utm_content=11.20.09+Sci-Tech&utm_campaign=Science-Technology&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email Just because people are intelligent doesn’t mean they’re smart. Though IQ tests do pretty well measuring ... 21 Nov 2009 15:41 GMT /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread11765msg189933.htm#189933 Liliana Boladz-Nekipelov: Well Poles were not spying that much on one another under the communism. They may be spying more now, when they want good jobs. 21 Nov 2009 14:40 GMT /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread13011msg189932.htm#189932 John Bunch: I don't understand the connection there. When the stock market was at its peak in the U.S. in the 1990s, unemployment was lower about 3 % or less. In Japan during the peak of the stockmarket in 1989, unemployment was almost non-existent. Sorry to burst the "bubble" there, but those are not ... 21 Nov 2009 14:29 GMT /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread11765msg189931.htm#189931 John Bunch: A French politician was prosecuted recently for publicly saying that he thinks that heterosexuality is "superior" to homosexuality. While I personally would disagree with his opinion on that (I don't think that one orientation is "superior" to another), I would also defend his right to say it. He ... 21 Nov 2009 14:20 GMT /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread11765msg189929.htm#189929 John Bunch: Orwell was right. The Left-wing authoritarian state is here ... in Britain, at least. This type of thing (neighbors spying on one another was a staple of East German life under the communists. 21 Nov 2009 14:05 GMT /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread10486msg189927.htm#189927 dominique f.: Arthur's point (2 years ago, but still very much topical) was that after living a long time in a foreign country and years of speaking/hearing the local language, translators (and others) sometimes end up falling both feet first into the trap of "false cognates/faux amis" without even ... 21 Nov 2009 12:37 GMT /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread10486msg189926.htm#189926 Liliana Boladz-Nekipelov: I think thinking is beyond language. 21 Nov 2009 11:31 GMT /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread10486msg189913.htm#189913 Xilin Hu: Arthur, I don't quite understand this: why did the colleague strike out the word "proned" and use "advocated" instead? Is the word "advocate" derived from a French word? best wishes, Xilin Hu 21 Nov 2009 02:18 GMT /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread10486msg189896.htm#189896 Dodo Kaipdodo: Nah... On second thoughts, a linguist has to think foreign while learning a foreign language, but a translator must think nothing but native while translating. Literature, I mean. Interpreters have it more tough... they must think both! 20 Nov 2009 18:50 GMT