Literature Translations
Translating literary material is just one of the very specific types of translation services offered by Trusted Translations. Very different than translating marketing materials or
International Translation Day Celebrations
For those of you who don’t know, Friday, September 30th marked the 58th annual celebration of International Translation Day. Celebrated around the world every year,
What is a Translation Memory?
A translation memory is a database that stores translated text segments. This means that each segment (in most cases a sentence is a segment, but
The Best Universities for Studying Translation and Interpretation
Many times in my life I have come across the same question asked by people I know or strangers on the Internet: how do I
Contemporary Theories on Translation: Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz asserts that language is, above all, translation (translation and literature are synonyms). Translation is always a literary operation, since it is an artistic
Media
Media and Literary Translation Translating media content and literature requires an almost opposite skillset from the conceptual and terminological precision of technical, legal, medical, and
Sense and Untranslatability
Translators need to have different tools at their disposal whenever they encounter difficult-to-impossible terms to translate into the target language. We often face a few
Translators or Creators?
While we may translate messages from third parties, we nevertheless do so with our own words. Indeed, it is this choice of symbols and meanings
Translator Problems II: Tips on the Localization of Proper Nouns
Following on from my last post, in this entry I’m going to be looking at the challenge of localizing proper nouns; that is, nouns that
The Legacy of the Linguist
Following on from my last post on the fundamental differences between translation and interpretation, in this entry I shall consider the life span of each, and
