Chattanooga's Beer Dictionary - NOOGAtoday - CHStoday - Dictionary

Tomorrow is National Beer Lovers Day, and we figured we could get a 1-day head start. We’ve put together a beer dictionary to tell you about all of the beer types, where you can find them locally, and what food pairings work best with your beer.

Amber + Red Ale | Red and amber ales will typically taste like caramel, dried fruit, or coffee — more sour than sweet. Pair with a hearty slow cooker meat.
Local rec: Great Outdoors at Naked River Brewing Co.

Amber + Red Lager | These lagers can taste light + crisp but also contain aromas you’d find in darker beers – like caramel or toffee. Pair with tacos.
Local rec: Chickbock Amber Lager at Chattanooga Brewing Co.

Belgian Style Beer | Belgian beers come in pale ales, dark ales, fruity beers, and sour ales. Belgian-style beers have a high alcohol content + low bitterness. Pair with cheese and potato dishes.
Local rec: Grim Haven with a Twist at Oddstory Brewing Co.

Brown Ale | An English-style ale that is especially sweet + nutty tasting. Pair with pecan pie.
Local rec: Higher Brown Brown Ale at Five Wits Brewing Co.

Cream Ale | Light in flavor, pale in color, and not too bitter for a newbie beer drinker. Pair with grilled chicken.
Local rec: Chatty Light at Heaven & Ale Brewing Co.

Dark Lager | You can expect rich aromas like coffee, chocolate, molasses, and even pumpernickel bread. Pair with smoked fish.
Local rec: Siren Vienna Lager at Empyreal Brewing

Fruit Beer | Many fruits find their way into beer recipes — some popular ones are lime, strawberry, and cherry. Most fruit beers are sweet tasting + pair perfectly with dessert.
Local rec: Bowser’s Side Peach (seasonal) at Five Wits Brewing Co.

Hefeweizen | Time for a German lesson — hefeweizen is the German word for pale wheat beer. These are also called witbiers or blanches and are made by adding wheat to the mix to give the beer a foamy head + a silky texture. They have a distinct sweetness and sometimes give off a bubble gum or banana smell. Pair with cedar-smoked salmon or a watermelon + tomato salad.
Local rec: Banana Hands at Tanasi Brewing and Supplies

India Pale Ale (IPA) | These beers can be bitter + have high alcohol levels. They can range from citrus flavors to stronger, more bitter flavors — depending on the hops used. These are usually the intro beer for new beer drinkers. Pair with fish + chips.
Local rec:: Igneous IPA at Hutton & Smith Brewing Co.

Pale Ale | Pale ales are usually hoppy but carry a lower alcohol content than IPAs. Most types of pale ale are malty, medium-bodied, and easy to drink.
Local rec: The Cure at Terminal Brewhouse

Pale Lager | A crisp, light-bodied + moderately hoppy beer. Pair with a classic margherita pizza.
Local rec: WanderLinger Lager at WanderLinger Brewing Co.

Pilsner | A light + crisp lager from 19th century Europe that is hoppy and a pale gold color. Pair with calamari or schnitzel.
Local rec: Naked Light at Naked River Brewing Co.

Radler | A radler is a hybrid — part beer, part citrus juice. The word radler means “cyclist” in German + legend has it radlers were invented to quench the thirst of cyclists. Pair with grilled fruit or pulled pork.
Local rec: Blueberry Lemonade Shandy by Saugatuck Brewing Co. at The Tap House

Stouts + Porters | These beers have a deep, roasted flavor and are often described as tasting like chocolate or coffee. Oatmeal stouts and porters are a subtype that include a small amount of oatmeal to give it a thicker body.
Local rec: Love Supreme at Heaven & Ale Brewing Co.

Wild + Sour Ales | Wild or sour ales are typically very low in alcohol, and feature tart, sour flavors that come from (safe) bacteria in the brew mash. Pair with salty meats, stinky cheeses, and lemony seafood dishes.
Local rec: Xenocryst at Hutton & Smith Brewing Co.

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Sioux County Leverages Translation Business - BollyInside - Translation

ORANGE CITY—Three amigos in Sioux County are eager to assist N’West Iowa residents, businesses and organizations in need of Spanish-English translation services.

The friends all attended Northwestern College in the Sioux County seat community, where the Van De Bergs graduated with degrees in Spanish and Spanish-English translation and interpretation in 2016. Van Beek graduated with her degree in Spanish-English translation and interpretation in 2018.

Orange City residents Kelsey and Weston Van De Berg and their friend, Michelle van Beek of Sioux Center, launched Comunicamos Language Services this spring as a part-time business endeavor.

After graduating, each person found work in translation services: Kelsey has been a bilingual advocate at Family Crisis Centers in Sioux Center the past five years while Weston and van Beek initially worked as medical interpreters at Hegg Health Center in Rock Valley.

The three of them have offered private translation services in their spare time, but until this year, they had not done so as an organized company.

Weston joined Sioux Center Health’s staff as a certified health-care interpreter or CHI two years ago, and van Beek has worked as a certified medical interpreter or CMI at Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center the past three years. Weston also is enrolled in a Northwestern course to become a certified legal interpreter in Iowa, which would allow him to do interpreting work for criminal court cases.

Kelsey, 28, who is married to Weston, 27, recalled that when the coronavirus pandemic hit last year, companies reached out to her husband to help translate new policies related to COVID-19.

“He did a lot more of that, and then he just decided he liked it and so he wanted to do more,” Kelsey said.

When the Van De Bergs were filing their taxes this spring, their accountant brought up the idea of them creating a formal translation business organized as a limited-liability company. They considered the suggestion and decided to go for it. Since they were friends with van Beek, 25, and knew van Beek did translation work, they asked her to join the endeavor. The name of the company — Comunicamos — is the first-person plural form of the verb “communicate” in Spanish, translating to “we communicate.”

The business mainly translates documents from one language to the other for personal or business purposes, though it also can provide in-person spoken translation. Once they know what clients need translated, the Van De Bergs and van Beek give them an estimate for the cost and date by which they can have the job completed. The business owners also decide who among the three of them is best suited for the job or who has the most available time for it.

“It’s worked really well so far,” Kelsey said. “It’s been good to have each other to draw off too, for editing. We can edit each other’s work now and we have a system where the person who edits gets a cut of the job for having edited the final draft.” The business has seen a mix of people needing documents translated from Spanish to English and vice versa. Spanish-to-English jobs tend to be shorter documents — such as marriage or birth certificates or court-related papers — while English-to-Spanish requests are usually longer tasks.

For instance, Kelsey recalled a job Weston took in which a client needed a 30-page employee handbook translated into Spanish. Since the document was so lengthy and included more complicated language, it took about two-three weeks to finish. Comunicamos also recently provided in-person interpretation for Sioux Center during a meeting the city held regarding upcoming construction work along Highway 75.

Michelle and Weston provided simultaneous interpretation during the event, in which they spoke into a microphone to translate the English words being said. Attendees that needed to hear the Spanish translation wore earpieces, which avoided the need to pause the meeting for translation. Comunicamos’ clientele has mainly been from around N’West Iowa, although Kelsey said a couple of jobs have come from Sioux City. The business has mostly grown through a combination of word-of-mouth referrals from friends and family and self-promotion through the company Facebook page.

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This translation of a historical novel asks whether the writer and the translator are joint authors - Scroll.in - Translation

Artwork from 'The Break of Dawn' by Labonie Roy.

The Break of Dawn, by Khan Mahboob Tarzi, which has been translated from the Urdu by Ali Khan Mahmudabad, welcomes readers with a preface that takes them through the origins of this translation. In it, Khan, the translator, talks of enquiring about the roots of his own ancestors, the cause of the revolution of 1857, and why this became an important presence in his own life.

The erstwhile royal family of Mahmudabad – to which the translator belongs – had played a pivotal role in the revolution, which ultimately led to Mahmudabad Qila, the seat of the family, being razed to the ground. What exists today was rebuilt on those ruins.

Muqueem Ud-Daula Raja Nawab Ali Khan, who died in the war of 1857 – the ancestor whose history the translator seeks to uncover – is a pivotal character in the book. Even though the main narrative takes us through the tumultuous love affair of Riyaz and Alice, it remains incomplete without the translator and his historical background. So, the translation turns into a homage of sorts to the ancestors of the translator who fought in the mutiny and remain as a spectral presence throughout the book.

Who holds the power?

In an unintendedly ironic turn of events, this translated version in English may also revive the image of the author, Khan Mahboob Tarzi. Tarzi, as the translator reminds us, was a struggling author and did not receive recognition or money for his art.

The footnote plays a dual role in this book. While translating all the original footnotes, Khan adds his own to supplement the translation, creating an additional commentary in the process on the historical essence of this novel. Tarzi, in fact, mines historical references to not only root the story in its time, but also to allow us to work out how we can actually look at this war.

That is not to say that the fictional story of Alice and Riyaz is any less interesting. In fact, the enhancement of the setting makes it all the more of a “swashbuckling” adventure, as the translator puts it here.

But if we are to argue that in a translation it is the translator who wields the power, since readers get the “original” work only through the mediation of the translator, all such books by definition belong equally to both the author and the translator. And because, in this case, Khan is personally invested in the history of his own world, he seems to be present in the battles and even in the qila of Mahmudabad.

With this investment, it appears that the power of the narrative shifts in the translated version, which becomes at least as much Khan’s as Tarzi’s. In his introduction, Khan provides close directions for reading the book, making it clear that the translator’s is going to be a constant presence in the text.

Intersectional translation

The close directions on how to read the book laid out in the introduction pretty much tells us how closely the translator will slip in and out of the narrative. It becomes acutely impossible to read the novel without being aware of the fact that it was Khan’s quest for Muqueem Ud- Daula’s history that gave us the opportunity to read Tarzi in the first place.

Who is the author of this book in our hands then? Roland Barthes ends his famous essay, “Death of the Author” with this line: “...the birth of the reader must be ransomed by the death of the author.” But how does the reader ignore the motivation of the translator in this case, especially as Khan’s footprint is constantly felt in the explanations, footnotes and, often, invisible commentary accompanying the text?

In fact, one can go so far as to say the translator here is not merely a placeholder for the author, not just the medium for the author to speak in a new language. This in turn makes the question of authenticity moot as well. You just have to trust the translator’s version of the story, for he is determined not to be transparent.

But is it a good translation? Perhaps only those who can – and do – read both the Urdu novel and the English one can answer that. However, the fascinating quest of family history implicit in the translation and the actual love story of Riyaz and Alice in the novel make for an unusual intersection between romance and nationalistic fervour on the one hand and the translator’s personal journey on the other. Indeed, one can even hazard the guess that Tarzi would have enjoyed this mash-up.

The Break of Dawn, Khan Mahboob Tarzi, translated from the Urdu by Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Penguin Books.

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In a word: How to get your new word into the dictionary - Lewiston Sun Journal - Dictionary

How do words get into dictionaries?

A few months ago I wrote a column about long words. In it I noted that the longest word to be recognized by the good people at Merriam-Webster was considerably shorter than some of the long words recognized by their competitors. So why is that?

“Famously,” they say, “the ‘longest word in the dictionary’ isn’t actually a word . . . because it’s never used to mean what it seems to describe. It’s only used as an example of a very long word. (So) It’s not in our dictionary.”

Thinking about that fact led me to wonder just exactly how the editors of various dictionaries decide on which words merit admission to their scholarly tomes. So I started digging.

It seems that the quickest way — and the one used by British blogger Lyza Danger Gardner — is to take an editor of the Oxford English Dictionary out and get him drunk. It really worked; she got a word into the OED that way. Only problem is it wasn’t the one she was trying to get in.

In the process of talking to him about a nonsense word (“nugry”) that she wanted to have added into his prestigious tome, she frequently used a phrase that piqued his interest, and that’s how “food coma” (a feeling of drowsiness after a big meal) came to be included in the OED.

A more conventional way to nominate a word you’re crazy about to the Oxford English Dictionary would be to use the submission form at public.oed.com.

However, some dictionaries, such as Merriam-Webster, don’t have a submission form. So, let’s say — just for the sake of argument — that you don’t happen to hang around with a lexicographer who’s also a lush. How do you go about getting your favorite new word into these other dictionaries?

That’s the predicament of siblings Johnathan and Hillary Krieger of Boston whose father, Neil, made up the word “orbisculate” (to accidentally squirt juice or pulp into one’s eye from a grapefruit when using a spoon to scoop out a section for eating) for the sole reason of trying to get it into the dictionary.

Personally, I’d also like to see “toller” (a live duck once used as a decoy, such as the ones raised by Maine writer John Gould when he was younger for his friend L. L. Bean) make it into the dictionary.

According to the folks at Merriam-Webster, in order to be included in their lexicon, a word must not only be meaningful, it must also be one that the average adult is likely to encounter. It also must be cited in a wide range of edited publications, be they newspapers, magazines or online (“usage is usage”), over a considerable period of time, which is known as a “lexical gap.” (And “a considerable period” can mean as much as 25 years, which is how long it took for “dad joke” to finally make the cut.)

Also making it into the big book in that same slow way are initialisms and slang (it took 15 years for “OMG” to make the cut), as well as newer uses for existing words, such as “mouse” and “cookies.” (The people at the OED stress that “These words may not make the headlines, but they’re just as important as words that are newly coined.”)

So my advice to the Krieger family is to use “orbisculate” as often as possible and in as many places as possible — and it wouldn’t bother me at all if that grapefruit juice orbisculated into the eye of a toller now and then if it resulted in the duck’s inclusion in the dictionary.

Jim Witherell of Lewiston is a writer and lover of words whose work includes “L.L. Bean: The Man and His Company” and “Ed Muskie: Made in Maine.”

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Shang-Chi is Apparently Even Cooler If You Speak Mandarin - Den of Geek - Translation

Another example of some of the cultural nuance lost in translation comes in a scene between Yeoh’s Ying Nan and Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) that takes place slightly after his arrival in Ta Lo. In it, Nan tells Shang-Chi “I’m proud of you.” (According to the English-language subtitles.) But, according to Reddit, the literal translation would be closer to “You are mom’s pride.” While this hits a bit harder emotionally even for those who don’t understand the Chinese cultural context of the phrase, Reddit user yawnandshrug elaborates: “It’s more than just saying his mum would be proud of him, there are connotations like ‘you are the pride and joy of your mum’s life’ and culturally stuff like that is just not said unless you are really close/really mean it. It’s basically short hand for saying that Shang-Chi’s aunt adores him.”

One of the most emotionally affecting scenes in the entire film is when Wenwu brings a young Shang-Chi with him to kill the men who killed Ying Li. Little Shang-Chi is left to watch as Wenwu slaughters all of them. After the bloodbath, he kneels down next to his son, mentions that there are others responsible for Ying Li’s death, and asks (via English subtitles): “Will you help me?” The translation leaves out the “baba,” an informal way of saying “father” in Mandarin, in the line that could be translated: “Will you help your dad?” As Reddit user Iris_Sun points out: “With ‘your papa’, Wenwu acknowledges his role as a father, and the position of his son. There’s a level of familiarity and kindness that you really only use with the people you love. Shang-chi is not a tool, but his child. There’s also the cultural implication of passing on one’s legacy; as in, will you help me by learning my line of work so that you might eventually take it over.”

There will always be something lost in translation; this is an inherent part of consuming stories across language and other kinds of cultural boundaries, and it is easy to accept when you realize the alternative. We’re lucky to live in a time when foreign-language entertainment is so accessible, and when big-budget Hollywood movies like Shang-Chi don’t have to eschew narrative logic that would have their characters speaking in their native language and/or the language in favor of speaking English.

“I can talk to the conversation behind which language should be speaking was always rooted in just the logic of the characters,” said Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton (via Heroic Hollywood) during a recent press conference. “And who would naturally be speaking what language. And so that conversation started in the writer’s room and then once our actors came in it was always a dialogue what these are all bilingual, trilingual, quadrilingual characters who could speak whatever made sense at the time.  So, we were constantly having the discussion of what made sense for the scene.”

According to aforementioned Reddit user yawnandshrug (and mentioned in the original thread post), Shang-Chi has so many instances of these cultural nuances lost in translation not because the translation choices are bad but because the Mandarin-language dialogue is is so well written: “Tbh the mandarin used in the film is very authentic and often untranslatable without explaining the context behind the vocabulary. So I’m willing to give them a pass on that seeing as they made the effort to make the mandarin good.” If a storyteller is going to make a choice between writing good dialogue and writing easily translatable dialogue, this seems like the right one.

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6 Ways to Translate Any Webpage You Visit - MUO - MakeUseOf - Translation

When browsing the internet, there's a good chance you'll come across webpages in languages other than English. To read the content on these websites, you'll need to translate them into a language you can understand.

Here are six methods to translate the language on any webpage you visit, so you can access the web without being pulled back by a language barrier.

1. Translate Any Webpage With Google Translate

You've undoubtedly used Google Translate to interpret phrases into several languages. Google also allows you to translate entire webpages between any languages you prefer.

Here's how to translate webpages using Google Translate:

1. Open Google Translate in your preferred web browser.
2. In the Google Translate box, paste the URL of the website you intend to translate.

3. Select the language you wish to translate your web page to by clicking the Down arrow in the center-right of your screen.
4. To view the site, go to Google Translate's Translation side and click on the link.

You can also use Google Translate in any app on Android devices and iOS devices too.

2. Easily Translate With Microsoft Bing's Translator

Bing's Translator works in the same way as Google Translate. If you prefer the Microsoft Bing search engine, you can use Bing's Translator to translate any online page.

The steps to follow are:

1. Open Bing Microsoft Translator in your web browser.
2. To translate, copy the link and paste it into the text box.
3. Next, select your preferred language.
4. To read the online content in your favorite language, click on the link.

3. Translate Webpages in Google Chrome

If Google Chrome is your preferred, you don't need to bother finding any online translation tools, as your web browser will handle it for you.

Here's how you can translate webpages using the Google Chrome browser:

1. Open any website in a regional language on your Chrome browser. A popup with the Google Translate logo appears on the far-right side of your address bar.
2. Select your language. Your default language will be pre-selected, but you can on click on More to translate the webpage into any other language.

4. Install Add-ons on Mozilla Firefox to Translate

On your Mozilla Firefox browser, you will have to download Add-ons to change the language of the webpage.

Here's how to find and use a translator Add-on in Firefox:

1. Search for Translator Add-ons on Firefox.
2. Add any translator add-on to Firefox. With most Add-ons, you can choose Translate Web Pages, which appears at the top of your window.
3. Set up the Add-on settings by adding your preferred languages.
4. Now, when you open a website in a different language, you’ll see a translation icon on the right end of your address bar.
5. Click on the translation icon to read the content on the website in your own language.

5. Language Translation on Microsoft Edge

If you surf the internet on Windows’ default web browser Microsoft Edge, you can automatically translate webpages to any language you like on this browser too.

Here’s how to translate on the Edge browser:

1. Open any website in a foreign language on your browser.
2. A Bing Translate logo will pop up in your address bar.

3. Click on the Translate button to interpret the webpage into your language.

6. Translate Webpages on Safari

Apple device owners can translate webpages with a built-in translation feature. Any Mac or iOS devices running a version of Safari after the 2020 release, can take advantage of this feature.

To translate any web page on Safari:

1. Click on the Translation button in the top-left corner of the address bar on Safari.
2. From the drop-down menu, you can choose to translate to English or any preferred language.

Web Translation Is a Big Help Online

Language translation tools are very beneficial when browsing the interne, to make websites accessible to everyone, and internet browsing more convenient.

It's worth noting that translations by these tools aren't always accurate and may not always translate text to its exact meaning. For the most part, you should be able to work out any mistakes, but don't solely rely on translation tools.

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SoftBank to offer AI-based, real-time sign language translation - Nikkei Asia - Translation

TOKYO -- SoftBank will start providing an AI-based sign language translation service as soon as 2024 using a smartphone app that can turn 5,000 signs into Japanese text in one second or less, Nikkei has learned. 

There are more than 300,000 people with hearing or speech impairments in Japan. SoftBank hopes the sign language translation service can promote smooth communication between hearing people who do not understand sign language and those with hearing impairments.

The system employs artificial intelligence to detect sign language and translate it into Japanese during a video conversation. The AI also adds postpositional particles to make full sentences. When a hearing person speaks, the AI automatically converts the speaker's words to text on screen. The people having the conversation do not have to type, which allows them to enjoy communicating and to see each other's facial expressions.

SoftBank in 2017 began basic research on the system with Tokyo's University of Electro-Communications. It has also collaborated with a Tokyo-based AI startup Abeja, in which Google invests.

Abeja had the AI learn from 50,000 sign language videos, which enabled it to detect the characteristic movements of each signed word. SoftBank aims to develop the service in multiple languages in the future.

Newly developed artificial intelligence from SoftBank can translate sign language into Japanese text in under a second using a smartphone app. (Photo courtesy of Softbank Group)

The Japanese telecom company is offering the service on a trial basis to organizations for disabled people in Tokyo and Fukushima Prefecture since April, and a total of nine municipalities and organizations have started using the service.

SoftBank will begin offering the service to health care facilities and public transportation companies within two years. It will roll out the service to the general public free of charge as early as 2024.

The company is now focused on improving the accuracy of the system. As with spoken language, people who communicate using sign language talk at varying speeds. The position of their hands and arms also varies. The AI can translate signs with more than 90% accuracy, but if the system is insufficiently trained, accuracy can fall to less than 50%. To raise the rate of sign recognition, it is necessary to read the movements of more than 100 people per word.

SoftBank in July began offering an app through which anybody can register samples of sign language. Tokyo-based AI company Preferred Networks provided the technology to automatically generate computer graphics as a sample from sign language videos. By showing the sample, the company is now calling for more people who do not understand sign language to register the samples as volunteers.

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