Anne Dacier’s Translation Legacy

In almost every discipline there are certain individuals who achieve fame and become memorable; they are admired by their peers in the field. These personalities usually transcend their area of
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A menu in Spanish

Continuing with the “Olympic spirit”, I read recently that before the 2006 Olympic Games in Peking, the city carried out a translation and a “standardization” of food names into English.
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The most spoken languages

Communication with others is essential for people to live together, whether in our own country with the people that surround us, or in another country far from our own. We
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A universal language

After several attempts to make it a universal language, this year Esperanto celebrates its 125th anniversary. Created in 1887 by  Lázaro Zamenhof, Esperanto is used in many media  forms, as
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UTF-8 vs UTF-16

Most, if not all, translators nowadays use some kind of CAT tool to help them with their work. Trados has been the standard for the past few years, and it
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