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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

June 25, 2014

Multi-linguals: More than just communication benefits.

Learning how to speak a language, our first language, is an accomplishment that probably all of us take for granted. But yet, learning to speak a language -even our first

June 23, 2014

Do the Arts Honor the Figure of the Translator?

Cinema, literature and television have, each in their own way, the ability to grant cultural standing to the various figures that comprise them. Before delving deeper into the figure in

June 20, 2014

Translations and DTP from Right to Left

We have to pay special attention when translating languages that are written from right to left, as what is a “no-brainer” for native speakers may not be for readers of

June 18, 2014

Know Your World Cup Competition – Ghana

As we are well underway at this point with the World Cup games, let us take this time to help shed some light on the languages of those countries competing

June 17, 2014

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