About Me - Antonio Marinelli English Italian English translations done by a professional translator based in Italy

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	I live and work in Civitanova Marche, a town on the eastern coast of central Italy. I was born here, but shortly afterwards my family moved to Toronto, Canada, where we remained for ten years. Therefore the first language I actually learned was English; we spoke a form of dialect at home. I learned Italian when we came back to Italy. At that time I became interested in bilingualism, and how learning a different language, and the relative culture, can change the way you look at things. After completing the liceo scientifico and obtaining a university degree in geology, I found immediate employment in an international forwarding company. There I acquired an understanding of business and trade practices that proved useful in my translation work later on. In 1989 I was recruited by a construction company to work on a project in Ethiopia building a reservoir dam. I stayed with the company for three years, working on projects in Turkey and Mozambique as a geologist and later a project manager. After that I returned to Civitanova, where I worked as a consultant geologist for several years. In that period I edited the catalog of an art show and a book on the remediation of polluted soils (details in experience). I also translated into English one of the canti of the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. During all that time I had continued to study translation out of personal interest, and had also done translations for a local agency. Finally, in 1999 I decided to make it my main activity, and since then doing translations is my full-time job.



	My first computers were Apple machines, but after taking up translation I switched to Windows. Few professional translators can do without a computer-assisted translation tool; the one I use is Wordfast. Among my other resources is a database file that was originally created in 1992 as a glossary for a small project and has grown into a respectable English-Italian dictionary. It is constantly added to and currently contains more than 56,000 records — a good number considering that a university graduate has a vocabulary of around 20,000 word families (where word family means a basic word plus its inflected or derived forms). Every record in the file contains an English or Italian headword and the relative translations taken from various sources, plus example sentences and special usage forms, all bilingual. I also make glossaries for specific subjects and/or customers.



	The following is a list of some of the dictionaries I use.

	GENERAL ENGLISH DICTIONARIES Cambridge International Dictionary of English, Cambridge University Press, 1996 Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge University Press, 2000 Collins English Dictionary, 5th ed. (21st Century Edition), Zanichelli, 2000 Illustrated Oxford Dictionary, DK Publishing, 1998 The Concise Oxford Dictionary, 7th ed., Oxford, 1985 The Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus, American Edition, Oxford, 1996 Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Gramercy Books, 1994 Webster's Third New International Dictionary, 1993, unabridged Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, 1967 Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed., 1997

	GENERAL ITALIAN DICTIONARIES G. Devoto & G.C. Oli, Dizionario della lingua italiana, Le Monnier, 1971 G. Devoto & G.C. Oli, Dizionario della lingua italiana, Le Monnier, 2004 N. Zingarelli, Vocabolario della lingua italiana, Zanichelli, ed. 1996 N. Zingarelli, Vocabolario della lingua italiana, Zanichelli, ed. 2002

	MULTILINGUAL DICTIONARIES J.C. Corbeil & A. Archambault, Dizionario visuale IT-EN, Zanichelli, 1993 M. Hazon, Grande dizionario EN-IT-EN, 11a ed., Garzanti, 1968 Garzanti Hazon, Il nuovo dizionario EN-IT-EN, Garzanti, 1990 Italian College Dictionary, HarperCollins, 1995 C.E. Love, Webster's New World Italian Dictionary, Concise Edition, Macmillan, 1992 F. Picchi, Language & Business, Dizionario EN-IT-EN economico, commerciale e di lingua moderna, Zanichelli, 1993 G. Ragazzini, Dizionario EN-IT-EN, 3a ed., Zanichelli, 1995 G. Ragazzini, Dizionario EN-IT-EN, 4a ed., Zanichelli, 2001 G. Ragazzini, Dizionario EN-IT-EN, 4a ed., Zanichelli, 2004 G. Ragazzini, Dizionario EN-IT-EN, 4a ed., Zanichelli, 2007 G. Ragazzini, Dizionario EN-IT-EN, 4a ed., Zanichelli, 2008 Dizionario Sansoni EN-IT-EN, 4a ed., Rizzoli Larousse, 2003 Dizionario Sansoni EN-IT-EN, 5a ed., Rizzoli Larousse, 2006

	SPECIALIZED MONOLINGUAL DICTIONARIES P.A. Laplante, Comprehensive Dictionary of Electrical Engineering, CRC, 1999 Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary, 1996 Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, 3rd ed., 1997 H. Warren, Oxford Learner's Dictionary of English Idioms, Oxford, 1994

	SPECIALIZED MULTILINGUAL DICTIONARIES LAW - FINANCE - BANKING Dizionario multilingue business & finanza, Sole 24 Ore, 1999 V. Edwards & G. Gessa Shepheard, Glossario commerciale IT-EN-IT, Routledge, 1997 F. de Franchis, Dizionario giuridico, vol. I, EN-IT, Giuffrè, 1984 F. de Franchis, Dizionario giuridico, vol. II, IT-EN, Giuffrè, 1996 F. Picchi, Economics & Business, Dizionario enciclopedico economico e commerciale EN-IT-EN, Zanichelli, 2001 West's Law & Commercial Dictionary, EN-IT-EN, Zanichelli, 1988 FOOD & DRINK A. Herbach & M. Dillon, Eating & Drinking in Italy, Capra Press, 1999 J.A. Sadowski, Italian Cuisine, John Wiley & Sons, 1997 O. Galeazzi, Dizionario gastronomico in 5 lingue, Hoepli, 1994 E. Neiger, Il nuovo dizionario gastronomico in 4 lingue, 19a ed., Buffetti, 1997 CONSTRUCTION P.F. Balboni, S. Balboni, Dizionario tecnico dell'architettura IT-EN-IT, Hoepli, 2005 FOOTWEAR Dizionario tecnico della calzatura in 5 lingue, s.d. CERAMICS Glossario ceramico IT-EN-IT, nuova ed., Faenza, 1992 CINEMA P.G. Vezzoli, Dizionario dei termini cinematografici, IT-EN-IT, Hoepli, 2000 MEDICINE Gould Chiampo, Dizionario enciclopedico di medicina EN-IT-EN, Zanichelli/McGraw-Hill, 1998 L'inglese medico essenziale, EN-IT-EN, Masson, 2001 AA.VV., Dizionario enciclopedico di scienze mediche e biologiche e di biotecnologie IT-EN-IT, Zanichelli, 1996 G. & M. Moncalvi, Dizionario medico di cardiologia, Zeneca NAUTICAL J-L. Garnier, Dizionario marittimo in 4 lingue, De Vecchi, 2000 SLANG R. Cagliero & C. Spallino, Dizionario di slang americano, Mondadori, 1994 S.J. Teodori, American Slang & Idioms, Vallardi, 2000 M. Harvey & A. Ravano, The Word on Words, Grande dizionario EN-IT di parole e di frasi idiomatiche colloquiali e gergali, Zanichelli, 1999 SPORT G. Ragazzini, Dizionario dello sport EN-IT-EN, Zanichelli, 1998 TECHNICAL R. Denti, Dizionario tecnico IT-EN-IT, 11a ed., Hoepli, 1985 G. Marolli, Dizionario tecnico EN-IT-EN, 13a ed., Hoepli, 1996 Nuovo Marolli, Grande dizionario tecnico EN-IT-EN, 14a ed., Hoepli, 2007 Edigeo, Grande dizionario tecnico e scientifico EN-IT-EN, Zanichelli, 2005 McGraw-Hill, Dizionario enciclopedico scientifico e tecnico EN-IT-EN, 2a ed., Zanichelli, 1998

	... plus a few dozen dictionaries in other European and non-European languages, for example: M. Toscano, Dizionario Italiano-Swahili-Italiano, Vallardi, 1992



	These are some of the books that I have that deal with language, linguistics and/or translation, in no particular order. The Open University, Il linguaggio, Mondadori, 1979 G. Steiner, Dopo Babele, Sansoni, 1984 V.N. Volosinov (M. Bachtin), Il linguaggio come pratica sociale, Dedalo, 1980 E. Goffman, Forme del parlare, Mulino, 1987 AA.VV., Il linguaggio, Dedalo, 1976 N. Chomsky, On Language (incl. Language and Responsibility, Reflections on Language), The New Press, 1998 D.R. Hofstadter, Le Ton beau de Marot, Basic Books, 1997 C. Taylor, Language to Language, Cambridge University Press, 1998 T. McArthur (editor), The Oxford Companion to the English Language, Oxford University Press, 1992 Bartlett's Roget's Thesaurus, Little, Brown & Co., 1996 Reader's Digest Illustrated Reverse Dictionary, 1989 L. Coppo, Dizionario alla rovescia, 1a ed., Selezione dal Reader's Digest, 1992 G. Devoto, Il linguaggio d'Italia, BUR, 1999 G. Pittano, Sinonimi e contrari, 2a ed., Zanichelli, 1997 J. Hall, Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art, revised edition, Icon, 1979 Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, Wordsworth, 1993 M. Dardano & P. Trifone, La nuova grammatica della lingua italiana, Zanichelli, 1997 Merriam-Webster's Guide to Business Correspondence, 2nd ed., 1996 U. Eco, Dire quasi la stessa cosa, Bompiani, 2003 R.M. Ritter, The Oxford Guide to Style, Oxford University Press, 2002 The Chicago Manual of Style, University of Chicago Press, 15th ed., 2003 S. Bassnett-McGuire, La traduzione teorie e pratica, Bompiani, 1993 G. Cortese (a cura di), Tradurre i linguaggi settoriali, Libreria Cortina, 1993 B. Osimo, Manuale del traduttore, Hoepli, 1998 B. Osimo, Traduzione e nuove tecnologie, Hoepli, 2001 B. Osimo, Traduzione e qualità, Hoepli, 2004 F. Scarpa, La traduzione specializzata, Hoepli, 2001





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