geist magazine – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the URochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:34:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 This will be a light Canadianization /College/translation/threepercent/2008/01/10/this-will-be-a-light-canadianization/ /College/translation/threepercent/2008/01/10/this-will-be-a-light-canadianization/#respond Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:45:40 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2008/01/10/this-will-be-a-light-canadianization/ Geist Magazine on a Spanish instructor at the University of Guelph who was hired to ‘translate’ an American-produced introductory Spanish book into Canadian.

One U.S. textbook dismisses NAFTA with a photograph of a harried-looking Mexican woman leaning over a sewing machine, accompanied by the caption: “This woman is happy because she owes her job to NAFTA.”

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