One of history's oldest copies of the Bible will be accessible to millions of people around the world soon – 1,600 years after it was first penned on calfskin parchment by early Christians in Egypt.

I want to quote from Clifford E. Landers’ book Literary Translation: A Practical Guide once more.

It is a strange feeling when you start to realize that you actually "translate" when you write your so-called mother tongue. The other day I wrote a personal message for a friend and I noted something really strange: the way what I wanted to say formed in my head was different from the way I wrote - this means that subconsciously I was translating from what I had in mind to what I actually wrote. The funny thing is that when you consider some terms to be translated from German to Italian you cannot do it because these don't exist in Italian ...

(Imported from Sociolingo's Mali blog which is now dormant)

Not long ago I did a post on Sociolingo's Africa of a newspaper article about plans for a uniform sign language for Africa. Now, I do realise this can be a contentious issue and that there are lots of grassroots organisations involved in African sign languages.

eng: Who is ignorant of other languages is ignorant of his own.

spa: Quien no conosce las lenguas extranjeras nada sabe de la suya propria.

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