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The Titanic Task of Cleaning Up a Translation Memory

A few months ago we decided to clean up the translation memory of one of our longest-serving and busiest clients. Throughout so many years of work, the memory was loaded

November 9, 2018

The German Language and its Dialects

German is known to be one of the most difficult European languages to learn as a foreign language based on its extensive vocabulary, complex structures, long words, declensions, etc. In

October 29, 2018

Multicultural Human Resources

What is culture? It may be summarized as a shared system of meanings about the world that surround us. People within a cultural group share the structuring of their environment,

October 27, 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

October 24, 2018

How to Translate Microsoft Visio Files

Computer Assisted Translation tools (or CAT tools) recognize text from a great diversity of file formats, thus are able to calculate the word count and analyze how many of them

October 12, 2018

Inside a World of Translations

Being new in this world of translations and interpretations, and as a Human Resources professional, I find really impressive the number of people, roles and trades that collaborate and strive

October 2, 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

September 25, 2018

One Language to Rule Them All

The English language has become a universal language not because it has the largest number of native speakers (Chinese and Spanish have more), but because it has the highest number

September 21, 2018

Would you Sign off my Dog?

As far as animal communication goes, there’s still a lot to learn. But one thing we can be sure of is that language, in its many variations and forms, exists

September 14, 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

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

September 7, 2018

The Economy of Language – A Guide for New Writers

What’s Going On? News headlines from the past decade show a worrying outlook for professional copy editors and writers. As this article from The Washington Post illustrates, copy editing jobs

September 4, 2018

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