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Typographical Symbols and Their Surprising Origins

Since the arrival of the printing press in the middle of the fifteenth century, when Johannes Gutenberg’s invention ushered in the modern age, operators of the printing press the world

April 6, 2013

Post-editing: What is that?

The idea of using computers for translation is not a touch&go, it has been touch&stay since the 1950’s. It was first proposed by A.D. Booth in 1946 and in 1954,

April 5, 2013

Language for thought

As we all know the great and most well recognized leveller in connecting people from across the globe has been the Internet. The Web has enabled businesses to go global

April 4, 2013

Converting Different File Formats for Easier Word Analysis

Nothing is more enjoyable for a project manager than when we receive a word document (or other plain text document) to quote and work with. With many programs to determine

April 3, 2013

How Important Is the Quoting Stage?

The quoting of a project is as important as the process in which the work is actually done. Quoting at the lowest price, for example, will attract clients and provides

April 2, 2013

Trusted Translations at GALA 2013 Miami Conference

Trusted Translations’ CEO, Richard Estevez, and online marketing expert, Gustavo Lucardi, presented “Spanish Search Engine Optimization and Online Marketing for the Hispanic Market” at this year’s GALA 2013 Miami held

April 1, 2013

What Is Pre-editing?

Among the stages of translation, pre-editing is one of the most interesting, as well as least known, as it helps salvage poorly-converted files and thus be able to process them

March 29, 2013

Project Manager or Translator?

As we all know, the world of translations can get a little hectic in certain situations. For example, when clients need a translation done by “yesterday.” That’s when stress begins

March 28, 2013

The Spanish Language: Vulgarisms and Vices

As language professionals—translators, writers, editors, literature students, etc.—we tend to feel outraged whenever we hear or see grammatical, spelling or semantic errors, which unfortunately are becoming more common and generally

March 27, 2013

Adapting to the market

The demand for translation is in an ever-increasing raise due to globalization, despite the worldwide economic crisis. The conventional way has been to process translations with the help of freelance

March 26, 2013

Happy Grammar Day!

If you’re someone who can’t stand the punctuation errors and spelling mistakes that are abundant in print media, or someone who finds himself or herself constantly correcting journalists on TV

March 22, 2013

How Should We Deal with Screenshots?

It is common, when translating a computer program, to find screenshots taken from the software itself. In the help section of a program, for example, there are often images of

March 20, 2013

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