{"title":"The Translator in the United States","authors":"F. Klein","doi":"10.1515/les.1981.26.2.52","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A presidential commission recently labeled America's incompetence in foreign languages äs nothing short of scandalous. Many Europeans look down on Americans and criticize Uncle Sam äs a bad linguist. Before rushing to uninformed judgments we should look at historical developments. Assurance of an unbiased viewpoint may bc found in the fact that I was borne and educated in Central Europe xvhere I lived for 26 years. After spending many years in Latin America I moved to California where I have resided since 1963, having traveled extensively.","PeriodicalId":232311,"journal":{"name":"Role of Translations in Sci-Tech Libraries","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Role of Translations in Sci-Tech Libraries","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/les.1981.26.2.52","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
A presidential commission recently labeled America's incompetence in foreign languages äs nothing short of scandalous. Many Europeans look down on Americans and criticize Uncle Sam äs a bad linguist. Before rushing to uninformed judgments we should look at historical developments. Assurance of an unbiased viewpoint may bc found in the fact that I was borne and educated in Central Europe xvhere I lived for 26 years. After spending many years in Latin America I moved to California where I have resided since 1963, having traveled extensively.