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Carved in Stone: (Un)editable Documents

Many times, as account managers, we find ourselves grappling with a recurring question when we receive a file to translate: is it editable? In my quest to find the answer,

December 12, 2017

Is language dying or evolving?

Evolution doesn’t imply improvement or progressive change towards perfection. In a straight darwinian sense, evolution means adapting to one’s environment in order to survive and endure, for the environment is

December 11, 2017

Transcription: Simple Task or Mad Challenge?

One of the services that localization agencies offer is transcription, which consists in converting an audio into written text. This can either be from a simple audio file such as

December 1, 2017

Embracing MT: Haters gonna Hate

I apologize if my title sounds a bit informal, but if we pick up where we left off last time, we may delve further, deeper, into the abyss of resistance

November 29, 2017

Who Let The Dogs Out?

If you are like me, you’ve probably found yourself watching news and videos online featuring man’s fluffy-best friends. There’s no better way to lift your spirit than watching puppy videos

November 28, 2017

Save Time and Money: Know the Source of Your PDFs

A great deal of the value that a translation agency provides has nothing to do with the translation of words, but rather with the way that words are presented on

November 27, 2017

The Electric-Kool Aid Language Test

Is Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds? Or is Luke in the ground covered in dirt? You’re probably saying to yourself, “that got pretty #dark pretty fast, is this about

November 24, 2017

3 Reasons to Use a Human Interpreter

If you follow current news in interpretation technology, you surely heard about the biggest leap in real-time live interpretation in years: Google’s Pixel Buds. Unveiled last month, audiences were introduced

November 22, 2017

Translation Inconsistencies & How to Avoid Them

When a translation project is very extensive, the most common thing to do is to divide the translation among different linguists in order to speed up the process, thus allowing

November 17, 2017

The Buds to end all wars? Google takes translation back to the SciFi books

In the Sci Fi Book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, earthling Arthur Dent is teleported to an alien spaceship unable to understand what his sudden hosts the Vorgons are

November 13, 2017

The Creative Who Lives Inside Me

Creative writers are essentially the people who write advertising material. They write promotions, texts, brochures, websites, just to name a few. One of the many tasks of a sales representative

November 10, 2017

You Wouldn’t Get It: German Jokes are No Laughing Matter

In 2011, Badoo published the results of an international poll where as many as 30,000 people were asked to name the funniest country. While Americans came in on top, Germans

November 1, 2017

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