In loving memory…
“All my professional life, I have felt that translators are in the business of spinning an illusion – the illusion is that the reader is reading not a translation but
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December 6, 2018
MT: From Babel to Metropolis
As a reflection on one of the very first cinematic explorations on the relationship between technology and mankind, the film Metropolis (considered to be one of the first science fiction
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October 24, 2018
Reedeeming the Panlingua
Last week, as if by some sort of divine intervention, I had the privilege of visiting the private home of Xul Solar, one the most significant Argentine artists of our
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September 25, 2018
Usability: How much is too much?
In our last post on usability, we briefly touched on Machine Translation’s role in the matter and the tools that can be useful to achieve a desired final product. This
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September 11, 2018
Machine Translation and Usability: Blessing or Curse?
Some will say that the postmodern days of the machine translation (MT) era might have brought along a lot more options when it comes to fulfilling clients’ needs. Others would
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September 7, 2018
Towards a Paperless Future: Is your Company Ready for the Revolution?
Last time we established that the translation industry is one of the most document-heavy industries around. So why should any of our companies consider going paperless? Well, for as long
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May 12, 2018
Document Digitization: The Hero our Industry Deserves?
Going Paperless… that would be the dream. Mother Earth would definitely be thankful for one. I mean, we’re all still literally wiping our butts with the Amazon rainforest on a
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April 2, 2018
[illegible text]: The Translation Industry’s Eternal Karma?
So, to change our usual subject a bit, I’ve been asked to dedicate a few lines to my own personal experience dealing with complicated documents. Working for major medical, insurance
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March 20, 2018
MT: A Tool for Human Evolution?
As we’ve established before, Machine Translation is a trend on the rise, threatening to swallow whole any translators who don’t seek to adapt to the times as “they’re a-changin’”. But
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March 12, 2018
MT: Every Titan has its Achilles Heel
We’ve debated many times in the past about the “natural” advantages Machine Translation might have over our fellow translators composed of mere “flesh and bone.” Their lives decaying and finite
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February 3, 2018
Machine Translation: Building up the Hype
Are the tides changing for MT already? Last time we spoke about the importance of emotional investment in MT. We considered the amount of hatred and resistance this technology has
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January 4, 2018
Is language dying or evolving?
Evolution doesn’t imply improvement or progressive change towards perfection. In a straight darwinian sense, evolution means adapting to one’s environment in order to survive and endure, for the environment is
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December 11, 2017
