The Characteristics of the Formation of New Words in Computer English and Their Translation
Zhang Qiang-hua · 2011
One of the prominent characteristics of computer English is that new words are emerging every day.These new words are built by assigning new meaning to the existing words,forming compound words and derivatives,technical terms,clipping and blending.As for their translation,the author points out that we can use the following methods to make the target language accurate and aptly worded——literal translation,liberal translation,transliteration and combination of literal and liberal translation.