Blog de Trusted Translations

What could be a Non-Translatable

In the translation industry, translators/interpreters always try to find the words that are best fit for the desired translations. How is this achieved? Well, it takes more than one step

July 28, 2014

Translation: One of the Most Promising Industries in 2014

Recently Inc. Magazine published an article with the five most promising industries in 2014. It’s no surprise that within that select group are two that go hand in hand: apps,

July 18, 2014

Dzongkha Is Not Just a Perfume

Dzongkha, besides being a woody fragrance that transports you to Buddhist monasteries, is also the official language of Bhutan. It means language (kh) within dzong. The dzong are fortified monasteries

July 17, 2014

What Makes a Great Linguist?

There is a whole host of valid answers to this question, but arguably the most significant – at least in the field of translation and interpreting – is the ability

July 16, 2014

Is Spanish a Sexist Language?

This is a long-debated discussion, especially among some feminist groups engaged in the very important fight for women’s rights in a variety of fields. However, sometimes the initiative goes even

July 9, 2014

Does the Job of the Translator Have Its Days Counted?

The debate over the advance of industrialization to the detriment of manual work dates back at least to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It’s a debate that, in keeping

July 4, 2014

Tetum: Not Malay or Indonesian

Tetum is a language of the Austronesian family and, along with Portuguese, is spoken in East Timor. And, while it is strongly influenced by Malay and Indonesian, it is, indeed,

July 3, 2014

Evolving Language

The idea about this blog started growing from my reading of David Stockman’s The Great Deformation.Although this book focuses on economics and the alleged development of capitalism into a vicious

July 2, 2014

Movie Watch: The best translation movies to watch.

There are movies for everything. Whether you want to laugh, cry, be scared, solve mysteries, the movie world has it all. Well, what if you want to watch movies that

July 1, 2014

Why They Call Football Soccer, Or Why They Call Soccer Football

Here at Trusted Translations we’re not immune to the Brazil World Cup fever, and so it occurred to us to research why in the United States they call the game

June 27, 2014

How Translation is Helping Languages from Going Extinct

There are over 7,000 thousand languages in the world today and more than 3,000 of those languages are in danger of becoming extinct. Most disappear when the last known native

June 25, 2014

Who Were the First Code Talkers?

In 1918, during World War I, a group of American troops participated in the Meuse-Argonne offensive on the Western Front. It was one of the largest operations of U.S. soldiers