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TRANSPORT OF DANGEROUS GOODS AND RISK MANAGEMENT 256Any of the presented differences of lexical nature may be a source of ambiguity and, consequently, of trouble theinterpreter/translator finds themselves in. Any author who writes in English as a foreign language will findthemselves in the same sort of trouble.The same goes for the differences of sociological and cultural nature that exist between the USA and UK, as wellas between these two countries and other countries, and express in the language. The number of such differences isalso large and some of them may be the source of serious problems affecting the process of interpreting/translating,e.g.:Contrary to the Serbian and some other languages, when decimals are in question, in English (both BrE andAmE) there exists the decimal point instead of the decimal coma. Coma is used just for separating groupsof digits in big numbers consisting of a large number of digits, the same way the point is used in Serbian,e.g.:1.500 in BrE and AmE is not one thousand and five hundred, as it is in Serbian, but one and five hundredth– 1,500 in Serbian; in the same way, in BrE and AmE 7,428 is seven thousand four hundred and twentyeight, and not seven and four hundred and twenty eight thousandth, as it is in Serbian.However, the number billion in BrE has the value of 10 12 as it has in the Serbian language, but in AmE,billion is 10 9 which corresponds to the number milijarda (10 9 ) in the Serbian language.British unit for measuring liquid - quart equals ¼ of the unit gallon or double unit pint which isapproximately 1.136 liter. This is 6/5 of American unit quart which equals double American unit pintwhich equals 0.946 liter, or 5/6 of British unit quart.The British begin their week on Sunday, so that the last day of their week is Saturday. The Americans, aswell as the Serbs, begin their week on Monday, and end it on Saturday. The British, as well as the Serbs, express a date in numbers following the pattern (DD/MM/YY) -day/month/year. The Americans do that according to the pattern (MM/DD/YY) – month/day/year, e.g.:9/11/2003 in BrE is; 9 th . November, 2003, but in AmE, it is 11th. September, 2003.The British drive on the left hand side of the road. The Americans, as well as the Serbs, use the right handside. As a consequence, the meaning of the expression: outside lane - in BrE is - the lane closest to thevehicles moving in the opposite direction, i.e. the one reserved for overtaking. In AmE, the sameexpression has the meaning – the lane closest to the side of the road.The British, as well as the Serbs, call the floor of a building that is on the same level with the street theground floor; zero level), 1 st floor is above it, 2 nd floor is above the first one, etc. The Americans do nothave the ground floor, at least in their language. Instead, they call it 1 st floor. The floor that is the first tothe British and Serbs is the second to the Americans, and so on.PRIOR TO CONCLUSIONIt should not be too difficult to picture a situation in which a mains is needed to plug in a device or an instrument ortool critical for performing an operation in a series of operations that are necessary to perform in order todeactivate, dismantle and repair a defective device that causes air, water or soil pollution. Unless the interpreter isfamiliar with both AmE and BrE, precious time may be lost in trying to clarify the meaning of the word which, inturn, may result in an ecological catastrophe (e.g.: crude oil spillage due to a defective valve…).
TRANSPORT OF DANGEROUS GOODS AND RISK MANAGEMENT 257Or, imagine, if you will, a task force comprised of trained professionals from many different countries,communicating in English with the help of an interpreter. Where would they look for an explosive device set byterrorists if they have intelligence that the device is somewhere on the second floor of a building (two or threefloors above the street level?). Again, the element of time that is always critical in responding to any kind of threatto security may be compromised here, resulting in sustaining material damage and casualties.And, what will be given to a railroad technician, trying desperately to unleash the last car of a runaway train whenhe asks for a spanner (or wrench for that matter)? There are an infinite number of situations in whichcommunication established through an interpreter/translator may affect human and environmental security and/orthe security of cultural goods, the way and type of interpreting/translating notwithstanding.CONCLUSIONIn view of the fact that the author addresses interpreting/translating in general, and particularly the problems ofinterpreting/translating a message/information from the domain of security, it is not too difficult to infer how gravea consequence an interpretation/translation that disregards the mentioned and other specifics of the Englishlanguage may produce. The same goes for the differences between the English and the Serbian language, and theones between BrE and AmE. Both sets of differences (BrE and AmE v. Serbian, and BrE v. AmE) really make lifedifficult to any interpreter/translator, but also to any Serbian author who wants to make any kind of scientific orprofessional contribution in English..In the circumstances of a security threat of any kind (terrorist or criminal act, accident or catastrophe…) in which aproper and timely response saves human lives, environment, and/or cultural goods, the validity and reliability ofinterpretation/translation as a factor of verbal communication between, let’s say, a potential terrorist act perpetratorand the ones whose duty is to prevent such an act is absolutely critical. It is the same again when verbalcommunication of joint task force members and people in charge of risk management and threat response is inquestion. In a case of emergency, an inadequately interpreted/translated word, or a number, may produce amisunderstanding the effect of which may be catastrophic. For this very reason, the responsibility of aninterpreter/translator envisaged in their high professionalism with all elements that this professionalism presumes isnecessary.For the better part of it, this work is the product of a research conducted by the author assisted by 95 students ofFaculty of Security Studies within the English Language 1 course of studies. The research examined the validity oftranslations of texts the topic of which falls within the framework of human, environmental, and security of culturalgoods in which English and Serbian language are either SL or TL. By reviewing and analyzing the translations in aseries of panels the participants of which were the students who did the translations, a number of problems wereidentified pertaining to translating language material of this kind. In this work, the author attempts to make aclassification of the sources of interpretation/translation problems that, in turn, may point to the solutions to someof the problems. Inasmuch, the work pretends to serve as a kind of handbook to those who indulge in the businessof interpreting/translating out of need or necessity. At the same time, the work does not have any large ambitiontowards professional interpreters/translators. To them, it can only be of use as a reminder of the things theyabsolutely must be aware of.REFERENCES1. Algeo, John: British or American English? Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 20062. Benson, Morton: Srpskohrvatsko-engleski rečnik, Beograd; Prosveta, 19813. Bickerton, Anthea: American-English, English-American : a two-way glossary of words in daily use on bothsides of the Atlantic, 1985
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Contents:INTEGRATED MODEL AND INFOR
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