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ASSESED EXERCISE

Firstly, I am a student of the Technical Translation subject and I have learnt recently to difference the meaning of the synonim depending on the concret use we want to express in a sentence. At this point, we also studied that we cannot look always at the literal meaning of a word because it can be false. For example: "Reading is fun", there we have a verb in present continuous, and it has not means correct because it would be: "Read is fun", but we could even translate this sentence as “Reading”, same as “read”, because the aim of this subject is to provide us a way of talking about what we do when we translate, to use this framework, to start thinking about how we translate and how we can translate better. For example: "My teacher is a bastard" is a typical language from United Kingdom, because in Spanish we would say "My teacher is a “cabrón”.

In classroom practise I have recently translated the text called "Electronic screens as thin as paper are coming soon”, translation in which we made several mistakes, due to the difficulty that implies using a technical language about the electronic.

Unit 2 treats about the theoretical Framework and his terminology, that is a polysemous word with several means as Bank is the site where is the money or Bank the river is the lead and I have traslated computer terminology for example bit,data,server,shut down and business terminology (Assets, Cost of goods, Capital etc).

Finally, I've studied terminology about Acronims that were a word formed from the initial letter of the words of a compound term (BBC : British Broadcasting Corporation ,Laser, Nato,scuba,radar,faq,sql,jpeg,bbc,cnn,adn,usa)

Text 1

ENGLISH

Electronic screens as thin as paper are coming soon

OVER the years, the screens on laptops, televisions, mobile phones and so on have got sharper, wider and thinner. They are about to get thinner still, but with a new twist. By using flexible components, these screens will also become bendy. Some could even be rolled up and slipped into your pocket like a piece of electronic paper. These thin sheets of plastic will be able to display words and images; a book, perhaps, or a newspaper or a magazine. And now it looks as if they might be mass produced in much the same way as the printed paper they are emulating.
The crucial technological development happened recently at the Flexible Display Centre at Arizona State University. Using a novel lithographic process invented by HP Labs, the research arm of Hewlett-Packard, and an electronic ink produced by E Ink, a company spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the centre’s researchers succeeded in printing flexible displays onto long rolls of a special plastic film made by DuPont. To make individual screens, the printed film is sliced up into sections rather as folios for magazines or newspapers would be cut from a printed web of paper.
The resulting “electrophoretic” screens are lightweight and consume only a fraction of the power of a typical liquid-crystal display (LCD). Their first use is likely to be by the American army, which helped pay for the project. It hopes its soldiers will be able to use the screens as electronic maps and to receive information. The idea is that the flexible screens will replace some of the bulky devices that soldiers now have to lug around. If that works, the retail market beckons. The first trials of consumer versions could begin within a few years.

SPANISH

Las pantallas electrónicas tan delgadas como el papel ya están aquí.

A lo largo de los años, las pantallas de los ordenadores portátiles, televisiones, teléfonos móviles y demás se han vuelto más nitidas, más anchas y más delgadas. Están a punto de conseguir más finas todavía, pero con un nuevo giro. Usando componentes flexibles, estas pantallas se convertirán también en curvadas. Algunas podrían incluso ser enrolladas y guardadas dentro de tu bolsillo como un folio de papel electrónico.
Estas delgadas hojas de plástico serán capaces de visualizar palabras e imágenes; un libro, quizás, o un periódico o una revista . Y ahora parece como si pudieran producir en masa igual que lo hace el papel impreso al que están emulando.

El crucial desarrollo tecnológico ocurrió recientemente en el Flexible Display Centre de la Universidad del Estado de Arizona. Usando un proceso de novela literaria inventado por HP Labs, el brazo de investigación de HP, y una tinta electrónica producida por E lnk, una compañía estiro del Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts, los investigadores del centro lograron imprimir monitores flexibles en rollos largos de un film especial de plástico fabricado por DuPont. Para crear pantallas individuales, el film impreso se divide en secciones, de la misma manera que los folios para las revistas o periódicos serían cortados de una página web de papel impresa.

Las pantallas electroforéticas resultantes son ligeras y consumen solamente una fracción de la energía del típico monitor de cristal líquido (LCD). El primer uso que se haga de ellas será probablemente el del Ejército Americano, que ayudó a financiar el proyecto. Se espera que sus soldados serán capaces de usar las pantallas como mapas electrónicos y para recibir información.

La idea es que las pantallas flexibles reemplacen algunos de los voluminosos dispositivos que los soldados tienen que arrastrar ahora. Si eso funciona el mercado demandará. Las primeras pruebas de versiones para el consumidor podrían comenzar en pocos años.