Linguists hunt and study words in their natural habitat

Nathan Bierma — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:00:39 +0000

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’

Nathan Bierma — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 20:00:26 +0000

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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Linguists hunt and study words in their natural habitat

The Jesuit Scholar Who Translated ‘The Passion’