What Is Nüshu?
This week, while surfing through an online video site, I came across a documentary on a group of women living in Hunan, a remote region in southern China, who have
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April 9, 2014
How to Translate a Publisher File
It is not that common, but occasionally it happens that a document to be translated is sent in MS Publisher format (.pub). This tool belongs to the Microsoft Office packet,
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April 4, 2014
What Are Syntactic or Structural Anglicisms in Spanish?
When analyzing a text in Spanish, regardless of whether it is a translation or not, the term “Anglicism” refers to those linguistic equivalencies that use a structure similar or identical
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April 2, 2014
The RAE Has Entered the Homestretch of a New Edition
In recent days, the Real Academia Española (RAE) disclosed the incorporation of new terms into the new edition to be published in October, which will mark the grand culmination of
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March 28, 2014
How Can We Develop Our Brain?
Recently Lund University, in Sweden, carried out research on the effects of learning a new language that proved the growth of the brain in various areas, one of them being
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March 24, 2014
Atomic Errors
As translators and translator agencies, we are constantly running into erroneous or nonsensical translations. In some cases – such as the ones that we published in a post from a
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March 20, 2014
Little Big Differences Between Spanish and Portuguese
Although there is a very close relationship between Spanish and Portuguese to the extent that oftentimes they display a high degree of mutual intelligibility, there are also considerable differences that
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March 14, 2014
Technology to the Rescue of Endangered Languages
Just as photography was clearly preceded by painting or drawing, or as printed word had written word as its precursor, the recording of sound on the gramophone record lacked a
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March 13, 2014
How Are Operas Translated?
Of all the tasks that can be entrusted to a translator, the one that is probably most feared is the translation of a poem. This fear or difficulty – many
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March 6, 2014
Issues of Linguistic… Taste
In the previous entry, we dealt with the connotations that animal names have in different languages. On this occasion, we will take a look at the world of food, at
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February 27, 2014
Two Thumbs Down: Movie Translation Mistakes
A few weeks ago we published a post in which we talked about the strange yet conscientious decisions that translators make when translating movie titles. We say that they are
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February 20, 2014
Hijitus, the Argentine Superhero
Las aventuras de Hijitus (The Adventures of Hijitus) was an animated series created by the great Spanish cartoonist Manuel García Ferré, first broadcasted in 1967. Ever since, it has formed
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February 19, 2014
