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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

Languages, Lives and Lessons

I recently encountered a couple interesting pieces of media and I wanted to share my experience. First, I watched an extremely candid TED speech by a doctor proclaiming an unspoken

June 1, 2012

New Fall-Winter Designs

Today I’d like to wrap up this series of posts on fashion-related vocabulary by turning my attention to those garments for which I had no space in my previous post.

June 1, 2012

Oll Korrect?

Whether you are an English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, or Japanese (the list goes on) native speaker, you have most likely used, or have heard some form of the word

May 30, 2012

Effective Proofreading Tips

As we all know, a translation usually goes through three stages (in general): the translating per se, editing and proofreading (or proofing). In order to guarantee the quality of the

May 25, 2012

The ambiguity of “or”

One of the most curious ambiguities that I know of is the two different meanings of the connective “or”. It’s got an “inclusive” and an “exclusive” meaning, and both of

May 23, 2012

Some Typical Errors When Cleaning Word Files

Cleaning up Word files is usually a breeze, but at times it may present some complications. Depending on whether the file contains images, charts, tables, if it is a .doc

May 21, 2012

Wearable Jargon Fall-Winter Collection

A couple of weeks ago, I published an article in this blog relating to the jargon of the clothing industry. In it, I talked about different types of garments, cuts,

May 17, 2012

Communicating Between Countries Just Got Easier

Last Tuesday, Google announced that its email service, Gmail will soon include the option to have emails automatically translated. Although this option had been previously available via Gmail Labs, where

May 16, 2012

What Would Sisyphus Say?

We would like to believe that once we finish a translation we will never think about it again. However, we know that’s not the case. Seldom is a translator fully

May 11, 2012

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