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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

How your Brand Name can Win or Lose you Clients

Brand names and brand management play a crucial role in the marketing of any product or service. Yet, as the world is becoming more globalized, it is becoming more difficult

April 4, 2012

Watch Out for ‘False Friends’

Let’s be clear about one thing: I am not talking about friendship or how to choose friends who will not betray you. Instead, I am simply reminding you of some

April 3, 2012

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

March 30, 2012

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

March 30, 2012

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

March 27, 2012

Moses for LSPs

Trusted Translations Experience with Moses presented at TAUS Open Source Machine Translation, Pre Conference Workshops, GALA MONACO 2012. [slideshare id=12163095&doc=trustedtranslationsmosesexperience-120326124737-phpapp02] Download as PDF Trusted Translations Moses Experience

March 26, 2012

Do We Capitalize “Web”?

The answer to this question, as with several in the world, is “yes and no”. While in English, the word “Web” should be written with a capital “W” in all