Comments on: Independent.ie copies McKibbin’s quotes from Gazette

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:19:52 +0000

I haven’t seen “translating” used in that context. “nationalization”, “internationalization” and “localization” sound more accurate, though the latter would be used in newsrooms in phrases like “finding a local angle”.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:44:04 +0000

Out of curiosity, is “translating” the term used in publishing to describe the adaption of localized content to a larger or global context? In IT we talk of “localization” (or L10n, cuz we’re dorks) for bringing content to a local scale and “internationalization” (i18n, v.s.) for the abstraction of content to a global level or adaptability to switch to various localized contexts.

By: Christopher DeWolf

Christopher DeWolf — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:25:44 +0000

I hadn’t seen the original Hustak article but I thought it was a bit odd that an Irish paper would quote somebody in French.

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:18:57 +0000

The Gazette isn’t a member of Canadian Press, which would be the most likely way this could happen. A quick search doesn’t find these quotes in any wire story about the issue, (and I’d think a wire service would correctly translate “Concordia” into “Concordia University”).

It’s fairly common to include wire copy into articles, but that always requires attribution (”Reuters contributed to this report”, for example).

I’ve alerted the site to the problem, so we’ll see what happens.

By: Kate M.

Kate M. — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:42:44 +0000

I noticed that, but assumed the Gazette piece ended up on a wire someplace, and don’t most papers allow journalists to pull pieces off the wire, add a few flourishes and sign them?

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:21:50 +0000

(To continue on my tangent, I propose the Free University of Montreal/L’université libre de Montréal. It would be great, if only to see what people think the university should be free of: Palistinian sympathizers/Isreali sympathizers; commerialized use of common space/hippies; overbearing corporate presence on the Board of Governers/hippies; students who concentrate on studies, graduate and leave/CSU politicians (hippies or otherwise); etc. But I digress…)

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:04:53 +0000

Wow. The only material change (that I noticed) was factually inaccurate (Concordia College? Maybe in Minnesota or New York. Or Alabama, South Australia, or the unaccredited diploma mill from the Carribean island nation of Dominica? Really, between these colleges and the network of Lutheran universities, Concordia really needs a more distinctive name.)