HISTORY OF TRANSLATION
Manual Translation The Rosetta Stone
(2.000 B.C) (1799 B.C)
The first appearances of One of the first written evidences
written texts partial of this process was the Rosetta
translations exist from Stone, where was found a
2.000 B.C of the Epic of recorded text on Egyptian,
Gilgamesh from Sumerian hieroglyph,demotic and Greek
into Asian languages. that served to deciphering
hieroglyphics different of the
period (1799 B.C)
The House of Wisdom to
train a translator base 813
Caliph Al-Mamun built the
House of Wisdom to train a
translator base, establish
terminology, and control
translation quality. The right
skills flourish best with proper
infrastructure and good tools.
The first multilingual
publishing industry (1500)
After millennia of laborious
copying moveable print
technology was introduced in the
15th century. It killed off Latin,
and created the first multilingual
publishing industry. 500 years
before, block-printing had been
used in Asia to print the Chinese
translation of the Buddhist
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Contributions of Martin
Luther 26 Agosto (1601)
He was responsible for
translating the Bible into
German, to expand the
sacred writings to others
countries. Contributions of
Martin Luther.
The first great print runs in
history (1700)
In Europe, Luther’s German
translation of the Bible was one
of the first great print runs in
history. But the explosion of
knowledge through printed
translation started worrying 17th
century Europeans.
The industrial revolution
(1800)
The industrial revolution
created a demand for
business documentation,
this devellopment created in
turn the need to formalize
some of the translation
specialities.
The translation specialities (1940)
Since 1940 engineers have been trying to automate the
translation process and to aid manual translation
mechanically machine translation, machine translation
is the process where in theory a translation is performed
by a computer program in reality machine translation if
often aided by manual pre and post editing unedited
machine translation is a free service available online,
this produces a translation which is often sufficient to
understand the general idea of the source text, however
such content can be often more humorous than
enlightening.
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The electronic computed (1950)
The electronic computed arrived in the 1950s,
not just a number cruncher but a symbol
processor. It promised software solutions to
almost every translation automation
problem. Translators could finally use
machines to do the heavy lifting.
Computer-assisted translation (CAT)
(1960 - 1990)
Type of manual translation where a person is assisted by a
computer software, this can involve a dictionary or grammar
software but it usually refers to a series of specialized translation
software such as concordance and translation memory has a
professional translator should have a good knowledge of the
language he is translating from an excellent knowledge of the
language he is translating into he should also be familiar with the
subject of the source text.