Translated version of Diabetes-39

Title tells it all.  Not an easy thing to translate a test and still have it be valid.  Haven’t read the article to see if it is checked crossculturally, that is, do the items have the same signigicance in a variety of cultures that Arabic-literate patients are in.  Same question comes up across class; sometimes people with similar socioeconomic backgrounds have more in common with others from their same class although of difference nationalities than than with others sharing nationality but not class.  The poor around the world may have more in common than the very rich of their own country.

The Arabic version of Diabetes-39: psychometric properties and validation
Yousef S. Khader, Safaa Bataineh, and Waleed Batayha
Chronic Illness 2008;4 257-263

Journal: Trans-Int

Translation & Interpreting looks like a very promising journal for a host of reasons.  First, it’s got a dynamite board of editors and reviewers.  Even if I don’t always agree with Sandra Hale she’s got quite a reputation.  Second, it wants to link research, training and practice.  So far in interpreting they’ve been three completely distinct arenas.

I don’t understand the italics in the title.  Is it Trans-Int, or Translation & Interpreting, or just Translation & Interpreting?  I don’t know.

Anyway, the first issue is pending.  There’s already a conference announcement on the site.

Journal: Mutatis Mutandis

Mutatis Mutandis is a brilliant name for a translation journal. It’s a multi-lingual translation journal from el Grupo de investigación en Traductología at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia.

It is billed as “Latin American Translation Journal” in English but bears similar headings in Spanish, Portuguese, French and German. The homepage also gives a choice of languages available: German, English, Canadian French, Croatian, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Vietnamese and Turkish.