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When Bad Translations Taint a Democratic Exercise

With about one in four voters self-identifying as Hispanic, Broward County in Florida is an unlikely place to find official English documents translated badly into Spanish—like ballot documentation. However, mistakes

February 2, 2023

Languages

English Language and Hegemony

From websites to social media, from advertisements to novels, English-language content holds powerful sway across the globe. As the world’s most widely spoken language, with over 1.5 billion speakers worldwide,

January 26, 2023

Has Language Become More Emotional?

Early last year, a team of researchers from Wageningen University and Research (WUR) and Indiana University published a paper purporting to have demonstrated the increasing irrelevance of facts in public

January 19, 2023

Words of the Year 2022

Always a month of retrospection, December brought eagerly awaited strings of new words to the already vast vocabulary of accepted global English. Often expressing innovative concepts, sometimes loaded with political

January 12, 2023

For Translation Buyers

Machines Correcting Human Translations?

Revision, one of the most crucial (but time-consuming) steps in the translation delivery process, may clog document production flows. Depending on source complexity and translation quality, this stage may take

January 5, 2023

Languages

Are There Untranslatable Words?

Hygge. Saudade. Toska. Mamihlapinatapai. If you know what these words mean in their respective languages, do you think you’d be able to translate them into another one? So-called “untranslatable” words

December 29, 2022

Languages

International Decade of Indigenous Languages

The linguistic diversity displayed throughout the planet’s many cultures and communities is something essential to humanity, and to what it means to be a truly linguistic animal. There is, in

December 22, 2022

Current events

A Celebration of the Arabic Language and FIFA+

Sports unite people worldwide―and in a special way, it has united people of all backgrounds, languages, and cultures. This year, Qatar, home to the 2022 FIFA World Cup, was awarded

December 15, 2022

Current events

Six Key Arabic Words to Learn for the 2022 FIFA World Cup

As the 2022 FIFA World Cup kicks off in Qatar, it is the first time the tournament, one of the world’s biggest sporting events, will take place in an Arabic-speaking

December 8, 2022

Current events

La’eeb and Qatar 2022―Here We Go!

When it comes to international sporting events, one peculiar and often indelible element that stands out is the mascot. Mascots are designed to be lovable and memorable characters that represent

December 1, 2022

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Work from Anywhere in the Localization Industry

At the GALA Global San Diego 2022 Conference, held at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, Pablo Vazquez and I, Gustavo Lucardi, presented under the Knowledge Fest format: “Work from Anywhere: Opportunities

November 24, 2022

About Trusted Translations

Gala San Diego 2022

The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) Conference in San Diego was scheduled for March 2020. I was in Miami and ready to fly out to attend the event . .

November 22, 2022

Blog in Other Languages

When Bad Translations Taint a Democratic Exercise

English Language and Hegemony

Has Language Become More Emotional?

Words of the Year 2022

Machines Correcting Human Translations?

Are There Untranslatable Words?

International Decade of Indigenous Languages

A Celebration of the Arabic Language and FIFA+

Six Key Arabic Words to Learn for the 2022 FIFA World Cup

La’eeb and Qatar 2022―Here We Go!

Work from Anywhere in the Localization Industry

Gala San Diego 2022

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