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
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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
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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
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March 30, 2012
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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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
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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
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March 26, 2012
Glossaries in Machine Translation
In Machine Translation we use the term “glossary” in a different way than the traditional meaning of “an alphabetically ordered list of words with an explanation”. For us it is
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March 22, 2012
What Makes Guaraní Different from Other American Indigenous Languages?
An article by Simon Romero came out this week in The New York Times discussing why Guaraní, Paraguay’s main indigenous language, has been able to continue playing such an important
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March 21, 2012
Some Helpful Tips to Translate PDF Files
The process of translating MS Office documents or web pages with Trados or other CAT Tools is excellent, but many of the documents we receive to translate are in PDF
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March 20, 2012
What Is the Dzongkha Language?
Dzongkha, or Ngalopkha as it is occasionally known, is the official language of Bhutan. Bhutan is a small landlocked country on the continent of Asia. A mountainous country due to
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March 19, 2012
TMX: Translation Memories in XML format
In a previous post I described XML as a standard for exchanging information. There are some specific XML formats which, in turn, have become pretty much standard in the world
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March 17, 2012
Indigenous Translators: Between Language and Politics
America (here including North and South America) is the second largest continent in the world after Asia. It includes no less than 35 sovereign nation-states, 1 Commonwealth and at least
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March 16, 2012