Re: International Translation Day (30 September)

On 2024-09-30, Ross Clark wrote:

United Nations. 2017. "to celebrate the role of language professionals".
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It's the feast day of St.Jerome, who's the patron not only of
translators and interpreters, but also "Bible scholars, archivists,
librarians, military linguists [?], encyclopedists and students." (Crystal)

I was going to ask about the patron saint of non-military linguists,
but I found this on Gretchen McCulloch's blog:

Saint Gotteschalk, Patron Saint of Linguists

<https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/23728963441/saint-gotteschalk-patron-saint-of-linguists>

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Jerome's translations made up the standard Latin text of the Bible (the
Vulgate).
The UN has a St Jerome Translation Contest (2005-), for "the best
translations into Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish and
German".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome

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