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Grammars: where Linguistics meets Computer Science

Noam Chomsky is a celebrity in many fields. Some translators get surprised when I mention that he is also well known in Computer Science. He invented (discovered?) a classification of

April 25, 2012

Redundancy As A Translation Style

According to Merriam-Webster, the word “redundant” can be defined as: Characterized by similarity or repetition. In the case of translations, if the original text contains redundancy for the sake

April 23, 2012

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da: Translating Songs

In a recent post, Pablo questioned whether or not music should be considered a form of language.The textual component of music, that is, the song lyrics, is on a more

April 20, 2012

Can Language Affect the Way We Think?

Ever since I started to learn a second language, I’ve noticed that when I speak in this language, I feel as if I am taking on another personality. I had

April 18, 2012

Translation-Proof Graphic Design

Oftentimes translation companies like Trusted Translations can take care of the entire production process, from source file preparation to the final file design in the target language. Nevertheless, it’s never

April 17, 2012

What Is An .ini File?

Freelance translators and translation agencies often use TagEditor, among other options, to process all sorts of files: design files from InDesign, Quark, MS PowerPoint presentations or simple documents from Word,

April 16, 2012

Translating Poetry

As translators, we know that one of the hardest things to translate is poetry.Rhyme, meter, cadence, word selection, rhythm: we could spend weeks on end trying to translate one short

April 13, 2012

Portuguese and Tetum in the same country?

What is and where can we find East Timor? East Timor, just the eastern part, is a country located in the southeast of Asia. As its name explains quite clearly,

April 12, 2012

Fully translatable humor

Not being a professional translator myself but being daily in contact with them, I can only imagine how hard it is to translate jokes based on plays on words. However

April 11, 2012

Expressing Time

When faced with an original text in another language, we translators usually tend to copy the same format to express time. For example, if in an original Spanish document we

April 10, 2012

The Usefulness of Back-translation

As has been mentioned before, when we speak of back-translation, we’re referring to translating a text (that’s already been translated) back to its original language. This is done without consulting

April 9, 2012

What Is an OCR Software?

An OCR software program is any computer tool or program that performs Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and is normally used in translation agencies for converting PDF files that come from

April 5, 2012

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