Pablo A, Author at Trusted Translations, Inc.

Renaming Files for Website Translations

Consider the following scenario, which has come up a few times in our company: we need to translate a web site that has got lots and lots of files, all

September 4, 2012

UTF-8 vs UTF-16

Most, if not all, translators nowadays use some kind of CAT tool to help them with their work. Trados has been the standard for the past few years, and it

August 24, 2012

Processing TMX with sed

This entry is a bit complex, but possibly some translators with a technical lean might find it useful. Some time ago I wrote about the TMX format for translation memories.

August 10, 2012

Character encoding in HTML

For historical reasons, the English alphabet and many of its punctuation marks are encoded in electronic devices in a universal and unique way. This encoding is called ASCII (American Standard

July 24, 2012

More on ambiguity and logic

In a previous post we mentioned the ambiguity of or in day-to-day speech. There is another construction that also exhibits this kind of ambiguity, but while the dual meaning of

July 10, 2012

A tale of two translations

A couple of weeks ago, in the weekly Chess tactics lesson of my local club (Oh, no! Not another entry about Chess!), the game we were considering contained the following

June 26, 2012

Chess across languages

Surfing around, I came across this page, which presents the names given to the chess pieces in other languages: foreign names of chess pieces. It is very interesting to see

June 12, 2012

Evaluating SymEval

SymEval is a tool written in Python for measuring the effort invested in the Post-Editing (PE) process. It reports the edit distance between segments in two different translations using the

June 5, 2012

The ambiguity of “or”

One of the most curious ambiguities that I know of is the two different meanings of the connective “or”. It’s got an “inclusive” and an “exclusive” meaning, and both of

May 23, 2012

Do Aliens dream of electric ships?

Planet Earth. Saturday 12th September 2048. Huge spaceship. Humongous. Hovering over Sao Paulo, USB(1). A few others in other big cities. Finally they are here! They send us a message

May 9, 2012

Grammars: where Linguistics meets Computer Science

Noam Chomsky is a celebrity in many fields. Some translators get surprised when I mention that he is also well known in Computer Science. He invented (discovered?) a classification of

April 25, 2012

Fully translatable humor

Not being a professional translator myself but being daily in contact with them, I can only imagine how hard it is to translate jokes based on plays on words. However

April 11, 2012

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