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Kiddo, you have a God-given gift (or: Chant down Babylon – what the Vatican doesn’t want you to know)

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech (Genesis 11: 1) So either you already know the story or not, but Babylon was a city

August 21, 2015

Translation and Adaptation

When communicating a message to a listener or reader whose mother tongue is not the same as our own, especially when that person does not even understand the language, we

August 12, 2015

Another glance at English UK

A few weeks ago we looked at the southern British Cockney and RP varieties. Throughout the United Kingdom however, many different varieties of the English language can be found. Northern

August 10, 2015

You, the time-binding animal

Alfred Korzybski was a Polish guy that came up with this thing called General Semantics. Not to be confused with semantics as in the meaning of words, Korzybski was more

August 3, 2015

Translation for e-learning

Imagine a large organization with locations around the world. Their corporate culture must transcend into each country. And much of their success would stem from consistent employee training. One way

July 31, 2015

Is Localization Important in the Culinary World?

As we saw in the post, “Translator Problems I: How to Translate Food,” translating the language of food is one the many difficulties faced by translators. But this difficulty isn’t

July 29, 2015

What to Keep in Mind when Translating and Localizing into Latin American Spanish

When translating texts to be used in Latin America, we must keep in mind the subtle differences that exist from country to country with respect to not only cultural differences,

July 22, 2015

A glance at English UK

English is the third most spoken language worldwide (preceded by Chinese and Spanish) given that it has 335,000,000 speakers. It is therefore unsurprising that how its sound can vary from

July 20, 2015

Translation Services: a Plethora of Options

What translation services should a client pay for? Which are the most effective or suitable? The truth is that when it comes to requesting a translation order and providing a

July 16, 2015

Lost in Translation

How many times have you run across something written in another language and wanted to understand what it meant? You copy and paste the text in an internet translation tool

July 14, 2015

We have to finish this simple: notes toward an experiment

Heraclitus was an ancient Greek philosopher. He wrote in cryptic verse, purposely obscuring his philosophy in almost riddles, so as only the initiated could fully understand what he was on

July 13, 2015

6 Translator Resources Provided by Newspapers

Newspapers, magazines and journals are, in and of themselves, very valuable resources for translators, as reading them imbues us with a current and, more often than not, correct use of

July 8, 2015

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