SURFERS, SERVERS AND BROWSERS: GENERATING AN ACTIVE (ENGLISH-SPANISH/SPANISH-ENGLISH) DICTIONARY OF COMPUTING AND IT

We live in a computerized society and gradually the knowledge of computing terminology has become a must for everyone today. New terms are labeled each year to define the different computer-related devices. This is particularly true in English, which seems to offer less contraints than other languages when it comes to adopting a new word or expression, oftern transformed into a cryptic acronym. Translators are consequently faced with the problem of coming to grips with these often self-describing terms and expressions. This paper aims at enraveling and analyzing this issue especially related to problems with computer terminology and available specialized dictionaries in the market.