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Barbara Carrara
Barbara Carrara  Identity Verified
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Oct 18, 2023

For those among you working into/out of UN languages, here is a link to the organization's terminology database,

https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/

expressisverbis
Zea_Mays
P.L.F. Persio
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Dalia Nour
Daryo
 
Carole Wolfe
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Thank you Oct 18, 2023

I think this will be very useful to me as a translator of Spanish or Russian into English.
Thank you for your help and contribution.

Barbara Carrara
P.L.F. Persio
Gennady Lapardin
Dalia Nour
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
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Thank you, Barbara! Oct 18, 2023

I’ve used it from time to time. Portuguese is not one of the UN languages (yet), but often finding out what a term means in other languages is a door opener.

P.L.F. Persio
Barbara Carrara
expressisverbis
texjax DDS PhD
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Denis Fesik
Denis Fesik
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UN language is a ding an und für sich Oct 18, 2023

On the one hand, I met people who said, "He makes a living translating UN documents, you know?" – and you'd understand right away that the translator being referred to was worth very little. On the other hand, I know at least one person who is a pro and has spent a lot of time translating UN documents (he said he wouldn't mind working for them full-time because UN translators swim in money but the only problem was that he had just one working foreign language). When I worked on UN documents, I... See more
On the one hand, I met people who said, "He makes a living translating UN documents, you know?" – and you'd understand right away that the translator being referred to was worth very little. On the other hand, I know at least one person who is a pro and has spent a lot of time translating UN documents (he said he wouldn't mind working for them full-time because UN translators swim in money but the only problem was that he had just one working foreign language). When I worked on UN documents, I'd usually find those glossaries quite unhelpful, but this particular glossary (along with certain others) is still among my browser favorites ▲ Collapse


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