Translation – Oriented Problems of Creating & Unifying Scientific / Technical Terms

Abstract

AbstractThe world has witnesse speedy progress in science and technology. Hence, scientific/technical terms are coined, e.g. English terms, to meet the need for referring to discoveries and inventions. In translating these terms into Arabic linguists and translators encounter serious problems.This paper highlights the problems of translating English-Arabic terms and tries to shed light on the factors which cause these problems and hinder the translation process.Ideally, these terms must be unified and standardized to overcome the difficulties of translating them into Arabic. Therefore, linguists and translators exert effort to achieve this goal in the Arab world.