Week 5 : 📂 Corpora and Translation & Thai False Friends 📁

        👀    Types of corpora as translation resources 
                              1. monolingual corpora
                              2. comparable corpora
                              3. parallel corpus


         👉   Uses
                    -Identifying words that go together
                              -Identifying specialized terms
                              -Learning about grammar

                              -Learning about style

                              -Learning about concepts

         💙  Use of monolingual, general corpus in translation

                    -Understanding meaning, connotation, idiom, expression in source texts and transferability of those features into target texts.

                            -Avoiding problems of ‘false friends’

                            -Investigating collocation and pattern 

   💬  Benefits of comparable corpora

                   -Check typical equivalence in the target language.

                   -Understand content information

                   -Study style

          👍   Benefits of parallel corpora

                     -Find equivalence in the target text.

                            -Study pattern and use in the target text.

                            -Study style that is associated with a text type or genre.

               

                                💢 Thai False Friends 💢
  
         Thai False Friends mean word or phrase in one language that write or pronounce sound similar to another language but different meaning such as "gift" in English means a present but in German means poison
             Moreover False Friends  mean  word or phrase that borrow from other language , use meaning differ from original meaning  such as "super" in English means excellent, special but when it use in Thai is means a supermarket.
    

Examples:
        

                air (n)                                        แอร์                               air-conditioner / air hostess 

                cheer (v)                                   เชียร์                              support 

                contact (n)                             คอนแทค                          contact lens 

                diet (n)                                     ไดเอ็ท                            to be on a diet 

               entrance (n)                        สอบเอนทรานซ์                    to sit for a university entrance exam                 fan (n)                                       แฟน                               boyfriend / girlfriend