Course Summary: Why Translation?

April 7, 2016

Today in class, we were given three questions to answer:

1. Why did we choose to study translation?
2. Are translators becoming obsolete, to be replaced by machine translation?
3. Did we enter the program intending to pursue something else afterwards or did we always want to work as translators?

“There is no delight in owning anything unshared.”

– Seneca

Class Summary: Jobs and the Economy

March 24, 2016

This week’s class focused on:

• The importance of terminology in our professional lives
• The distinction between microeconomics and macroeconomics.

“There is no joy in possession without sharing.”

– Erasmus

TermWiki

It’s official!  I am now part of the TermWiki world!

Check out my TermWiki profile here.

 

One of our class assignments was to create a term, pertaining to our chosen subject, that was not yet published on TermWiki. Normally, terminological records have a structured format. TermWiki, whilst also having a structured format, differs from the structure of classic terminology. One of the most notable differences is the 100-word limit that TermWiki imposes that contradicts the golden rule of terminology, that of concision. This is why, contrary to Mme. Danièle Marcoux’s directives in her terminology class,  all the definitions I submitted to TermWiki complied with TermWiki’s 100-word limit.

Take a gander at my TermWiki additions inspired by my last “Uber” Your Cooking post:

• couchsurfing
• kitchensurfing
• ridesharing

“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”

– His Holiness the Dalai Lama

“Uber” Your Cooking

March 21, 2016

While looking for inspiration in my search for two terms to define on TermWiki this week, one of my classmates, Sebástien Hernández, shared an article by Forbes that directly related to my subject of choice. That is to say, it was entirely about my subject of choice: the sharing economy. The article, “Uber” Your Cooking: The Sharing Economy Comes To Your Kitchen, written by The Hartman Group, takes a look at the influence and effect of this new sharing economy on the evolution of culture and society.

The sharing economy is but one example of how disruptive innovation can be an influential change agent […] and why our attention remains riveted on identifying developments underlying cultural change.

Finding the “right” word

March 10, 2016

In today’s lecture we discussed the global issues in terms of politics and economics and how terminology plays an important role on these platforms.

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

– Buddha

Other new economies

The focus of this blog is the sharing economy which we have previously seen. I, however, am far from being the sole student in Professor Caignon’s class. There are a number of other students and each of us has focused on a different new economy. Although there is some overlap, there are many branches of new economies that have been touched upon. I have included below a small sampling of the new economies encountered during the course along with their definitions.

A few of the other new economies:

• social economy/ l’économie sociale
• knowledge economy/ l’économie du savoir
• information economy/ l’économie de l’information
• green economy/l’économie verte