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The Spanish Invasion

There is a lot of talk about how Spanish is increasingly overrun by Anglicisms. However, it is also interesting to note that English, at present, has also borrowed a significant

June 28, 2012

A tale of two translations

A couple of weeks ago, in the weekly Chess tactics lesson of my local club (Oh, no! Not another entry about Chess!), the game we were considering contained the following

June 26, 2012

Burger Localization

As almost every company who sells products or services in multiple countries knows, localization is a very important part of an international marketing strategy. Whether a company decides to localize

June 25, 2012

Translating Websites with Google

The benefits of automatic translation are beyond compare. So much so that just a few years ago (in 2009), Google launched a tool (complementary to Google Translate) that allows you

June 20, 2012

It pays off to be persistent

Working as an Account Manager can be very intense at times, and multi-tasking skills are definitely required in order to be successful. Leads or quote requests are received by e-mail,

June 19, 2012

Translating or Writing?

The old saying tells us that translators are privileged readers. However, I think we may venture to argue that, rather than mere readers, translators are privileged writers. Unless we rely

June 14, 2012

Trusted Marketing Translations

The translation of marketing material ranks among Trusted Translations’ main linguistic activities. Every day we get requests from customers who are looking to expand their companies’ reach and who therefore

June 13, 2012

Chess across languages

Surfing around, I came across this page, which presents the names given to the chess pieces in other languages: foreign names of chess pieces. It is very interesting to see

June 12, 2012

Google Enhances Website Translation Services

Google, which has been offering a free website translation service since 2009, has just added a new feature to this service, making it more interactive, flexible and collaborative. Similar to

June 11, 2012

In Search of That Tiny Slanted Mark

It would seem that with each passing day the Spanish diacritic, or accent mark, is disappearing more and more. Go out for a walk and you’ll see that it’s not

June 8, 2012

Translating Acronyms and Abbreviations

Normally, one of the most frequent problems that translators have to deal with is the translation of abbreviations or acronyms. Note that an abbreviation is the formation of a word

June 7, 2012

Evaluating SymEval

SymEval is a tool written in Python for measuring the effort invested in the Post-Editing (PE) process. It reports the edit distance between segments in two different translations using the

June 5, 2012

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