When Translations Get Tricky

It’s common in the translation field to come across projects that evince enormous intercultural differences, obliging the translator to come up with some sort of ingenious solution to the issue. 
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Unique Languages: Maltese

It is often discussed here and in many other places how English is such a unique language due to the confluence of languages from separate families that were brought together
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Writing Years in Spanish

Continuing on the topic of writing dates in Spanish correctly, regarding the use of the article “el” (which includes the contraction “del“) before the expression of years, these are the
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Popular Sayings

“The walls have ears”During the second half of the 16th century in France, Catherine de’ Medici had acoustic conduits built into the walls of her palace to be able to
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Can’t We All Just Get Along?!

Yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War, the bloodiest and most atrocious armed conflict of the 20th century. European leaders gathered in the small
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