Research
We often get a translation on a topic that we don’t know in detail. What should we do? We have a few possibilities: If we find the terminology and content
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January 23, 2009
Project Management for Translations (First Part)
The coordinator of translation projects or Project Manager (PM) promotes a work environment in which reigns the uniformity of criteria. In this sense, the coordinator of the project is the
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January 23, 2009
The Economist cracks down on Americanisms
The Economist is the well-known and acclaimed magazine newspaper(!) about…well, economics…that is published in the UK. One of its proudest principles is how it likes to take stands on issues
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January 22, 2009
President Obama and The Power of Words
Tuesday night, at some moment during my CNN and BBC viewing marathon of inaugural activities and the apparent zenith of Obamamania, one of the many political analysts/commentators referred to “the
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January 22, 2009
The RAE Dictionary
What do we mean when we say that the RAE (Real Academia Española) Dictionary is the only “accepted” dictionary for translating into or from Spanish? Simply put, it means that
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January 20, 2009
How to search for terms or add a new term in MultiTerm:
When we are translating, surely we might want to add terms in order to complete our termbase or to search for a term in order to maintain the consistency of
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January 19, 2009
Lost in Translation:
The administration of the City of Buenos Aires, headed by the businessman Mauricio Macri, appears to have translated and adopted a common environmental campaign slogan in Brazil for its own
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January 16, 2009
Sapir-Whorf and Experimentation
If any of you languagephiles out there are not familiar with the Spair-Whorf hypothesis, it posits that the language a person speaks influences his or her thought patterns perception of
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January 15, 2009
Different Ways of Celebrating the New Year
As we saw in the last article that in different countries Christmas is celebrated differently, New Year’s is similarly celebrated differently in different countries. In Germany, they say goodbye to
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January 14, 2009
Christmas Traditions
In this special time of year, I would like to interrupt our MultiTerm classes in order to talk about the different ways in which Christmas is celebrated in different parts
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January 13, 2009
“Voseo”
What does it mean to use “vos” instead of “tú” when speaking Spanish? It’s a phenomenon that has its origins in the Spanish spoken in Argentina and Uruguay where the
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January 9, 2009
Neutral Spanish
What does “neutral Spanish” mean? This has been a hotly debated topic in many sectors, particularly in the field of translation. It has been decided that neutral Spanish is the
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January 8, 2009