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Google to the Rescue of Gender Ambiguity

For those of us who began translating before the advent of Google, and primarily those who usually translate from English into Spanish, the arrival of the Silicon Valley giant has

July 22, 2016

The Pronoun Game

In Chasing Amy, by U.S. filmmaker Kevin Smith, the lead character in the film makes an unexpected switch in her relationship preferences and decides to tell her friends, all of

August 1, 2014

More on ambiguity and logic

In a previous post we mentioned the ambiguity of or in day-to-day speech. There is another construction that also exhibits this kind of ambiguity, but while the dual meaning of

July 10, 2012

A tale of two translations

A couple of weeks ago, in the weekly Chess tactics lesson of my local club (Oh, no! Not another entry about Chess!), the game we were considering contained the following

June 26, 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

Why human postediting is necessary in MT?

We read in a TAUS (Translation Automaton User Society) report: Future developmentsIn general, academic MT observers have tended to view postediting as the weak link in the MT value chain. One

March 14, 2012