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Linguists hunt and study words in their natural habitat
Thursday, March 25th, 2004
Sometimes language lovers sound as if they’re on a safari. They talk about observing words in their natural habitat and studying their behavior in herds.
With the first release of the American National Corpus, an annotated body of over 10 million words, linguists can hunt like never before.
The Jesuit Scholar Who Translated ‘The Passion’
Thursday, March 4th, 2004
Obscured by the furor surrounding Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the
Christ” is one relatively mundane bit of trivia: Last week’s debut
marked the widest release ever of a subtitled film in North America. …
“I got a call while I was in Jerusalem: ‘Hey, Padre, It’s Mel, I
got a job for you,’” Fulco said. “I said, `Mel who?’ We talked for
about an hour. He told me about the project, and I couldn’t pass it
up.”
In 2002, Gibson gave Fulco the script written by Benedict
Fitzgerald, mostly derived from the Gospels, and asked Fulco to
translate it into Aramaic , Hebrew and Latin. Fulco later translated
the script back into English subtitles.
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