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Faithful vs. Effective Translations

A Bridge Too Far Most of the time, when we describe a good translation, we refer to the concept of fidelity. We believe the target text should be true to

August 20, 2018

Why Do Dogs Speak German? – Bilingualism in Dog Training

You are strolling down a quiet road in your hometown when, suddenly, you hear a man shout “Bleib!” “Achtung!” and “Sitz!” He is clad in a security forces uniform, and

August 17, 2018

Your Very own Interoperability Theme Park

I’ll Make my own Device! In the spirit of these famous rebellious words, I would ask you to take a long hard look at the seamless joints on your cell

August 6, 2018

Can Humor be Translated?

There are many magazines with funny jokes, books that describe amusing situations, videos and movies where it is inevitable to let out a few laughs. Everyone loves to laugh and

July 31, 2018

What are Text Expansion and Text Contraction?

When a text is translated from one language to another, in most cases, the number of words and, therefore, the space that the text occupies in a document usually change.

July 27, 2018

Does Communication Require Speaking the Same Language?

A few weeks ago, I played a game whose protagonists were speaking in a language that I did not understand. After doing some research, I found out that the language

June 18, 2018

Another Cup, Another Song

Once again, it’s time for the Soccer World Cup and this time it’s Mother Russia’s turn to host. It’s pretty amazing how these past four years just flew by, and

June 18, 2018

And on the Third Day…

In our last post, we began exploring the idea that Millennials are capable of more than just massacring the establishment. Winter is a necessary precedent to spring, death aids in

June 11, 2018

Don’t Ban Me, Gringo

We have become aware of two recent incidents involving Spanish speakers in the U.S. The first event happened in New York; a lawyer became infuriated because he heard restaurant employees

June 6, 2018

Are Millennials Resurrecting Cursive?

Finally, something Millennials aren’t killing, right? Making lists of industries Millennials have ‘allegedly’ killed is passé at this point; memes have been born and buried in the bottomless Internet graveyard

June 5, 2018

Do you Want to be a Multilingual Superstar?

Human beings usually learn to speak at least one language naturally in their first years of life. They learn from their parents, from school, from TV, from the place where

May 17, 2018

“Conservas Lazo,” Pre-Editing & The Machine Translation Odyssey

I don’t think I’ll ever forget one of the first times I used Google translate when I wrote the name James Bond in the English>Spanish translator. The result was “Conservas

May 16, 2018

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