What Is A Style Guide?
A style guide is a manual that contains a set of parameters intended to unify the form of writing. A style guide is NOT a dictionary or a glossary. It
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May 25, 2011
Colombian Academy of the Spanish Language
This academy was founded in 1871 and since 1960 it has advised the government of Colombia on language issues, which has led to several laws on the Spanish language being
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May 21, 2011
Translation of FrameMaker Files
In the translation and localization industry, it is very common to work on projects for the translation of manuals, catalogs, brochures and other technical documents. These different types of documents
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May 19, 2011
Summary Translation
The aim of a summary translation is usually to allow the reader to understand the key points of the original document. It is not a word-for-word translation of the original.
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May 17, 2011
The 100 Best Language Blogs of 2011
This list has become a tradition over the last 4 years. We are pleased to comment that, for the fourth consecutive year, Lexiophiles has announced the competition to identify the
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May 16, 2011
Web 2.0 and its Influence on Marketing and Sales: Myth vs. Reality
We have heard about the “social media revolution” for quite some time now. Since mid-2001, when the first sites that foster collaborative networks emerged, social media sites like Facebook, Twitter,
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May 9, 2011
Panamanian Spanish
Due to Panama’s geographic position, many diverse linguistic influences have to varying degrees combined to for what is now known as “Panamanian Spanish”. Although the official and most used language
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April 21, 2011
Honduran Spanish
Honduras has a history heavily influenced by the Mayan and Aztec cultures, as these were the people pueblos who lived there before the Spanish conquest. As in other Central American
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April 20, 2011
Costa Rican Spanish
As we have been showing in the various articles about each of the Spanish-speaking countries in America, and Central America is also proud of its diverse Spanish. We insist that
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April 18, 2011
Venezuelan Spanish
This variety of Caribbean Spanish, with numerous similarities to the Spanish of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Cuba, came to the land of the hallaca (or “hayaca”, which is
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April 15, 2011
Paraguayan Spanish
The unique and distinct Spanish spoken in Paraguay today, along with Guarani, has a historical explanation. In Paraguay, the Spanish language brought by the conquerors did not replace the indigenous
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April 14, 2011
Cuban Spanish
To understand Cuban Spanish today, we need to look at history. The island of Cuba, along with Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, were the first places the Spanish colonizers
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April 13, 2011
