Machismo in Spanish Writing?
I frequently notice in translations from English into Spanish that the translator attempts to make explicit an author’s reference to both sexes with the following
September 25, 2009
Overcoming the Global Economic Crisis with Professional Translation
The present global economic scenario is looking pretty dire, and companies all over the planet are looking for clever new ways to maintain their customer
September 23, 2009
How to Use SDL Multiterm in Trados Workbench
This video offers a brief, succinct lesson on how to use MultiTerm as a plug-in in Trados Workbench, to create glossaries during a translation project.
September 18, 2009
How to Use Two-Word Nouns in Spanish
In Spanish, in constructions made up of two nouns that form one lexical unit in which the second noun modifies the first as if it
September 18, 2009
When Translations Get Tricky
It’s common in the translation field to come across projects that evince enormous intercultural differences, obliging the translator to come up with some sort of
September 14, 2009
Popular Sayings
“The walls have ears”During the second half of the 16th century in France, Catherine de’ Medici had acoustic conduits built into the walls of her
September 4, 2009
Can’t We All Just Get Along?!
Yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War, the bloodiest and most atrocious armed conflict of the 20th century. European
September 2, 2009
August 28, 2009
A Matter of Preference
As professional translators, we have to offer localized services depending on the public we’re dealing with. That’s why as native speakers of a given country
August 27, 2009
Mind What Ye Bloggeth…
There have been some volatile eruptions affecting the blogosphere of late, hence meriting a new post on the issue of blogging in our modern day
August 25, 2009
Language Statistics
• Quantity of living languages: 6912 • Quantity of language on the verge of extinction: 516 • Language with the largest quantity of native speakers:
August 21, 2009
Language, History, and Politics
When is a language really a language, and not just a set of dialects? That is a difficult question to answer, and the Spanish language
August 18, 2009
