The Daily Translation

A site devoted to translation problems, The Daily Translation is dedicated to logic students everywhere. A new problem is posted every day—usually drawn from the news, though there was a longish stretch, from February 13 to May 23 in 2004, when we used quotations, proverbs, and sayings instead. To do the problems, one does need to be familiar with elementary logic, and the particular systems of logic here presupposed (and used in the answers) are systems presented in the second edition of Benson Mates’s Elementary Logic (New York: Oxford UP, 1972). But even if you don’t know anything about formal logic, you might find this interesting. Why not take a look and see?


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Late in the afternoon of the 24th of January, 1997, Tom Trelogan announced to his logic aide that it had occurred to him that what he really ought to do is give his logic students a translation problem every day from then until the end of the spring semester “just so they can keep their hand in—or just a minute—um, maybe that should be ‘hands.’”

When asked for her reaction, his aide, Ms. Carissa Lynch, said “Oh, that’s a great idea.”

As to how he would break the news to his class, Prof. Trelogan said, “I’ll just tell ’em....”

And so it began.