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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sinhalese, Singhalese or Sinhala?

Sinhala is the officially recognized language in Sri Lanka, along with Tamil. Also known as Sinhalese and previously as Singhalese, it is the language of the Sinhalese people, the largest
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Is Music a language?

The other night I was listening to a version of Eleanor Rigby by the talented Uruguayan musician Leo Masliah. This particular version has got so many variations and modulations (changes
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Long Tail SEO

The Key to a Successful SEO Sales Strategy (the Long Tail)Trusted Translations Presentation at GALA Monaco 2012 [slideshare id=12163173&doc=thekeytoasuccessfulseosalesstrategythelongtail-120326125627-phpapp02]   Download as PDF:  The Key to a Successful SEO Sales
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