Compensating and Compromising
In the field of translation, there are inevitably going to be phrases and meanings in a Source Text that will not be able to be
Cogency: Am I Making Myself Understood?
The ability to formulate an argument (written or spoken) that logically sustains itself is not perceived the same way in every part of the world,
Different Types of Calque
Paronymous calque or loan word: is the result of an incorrect correspondence between two words that have similar forms or etymologies but that have evolved
What is a Linguistic Loan?
This type of word is one that is taken from one language and used in another without translation, demonstrating a lexical vacuum in the latter.
The importance of expert translators
After my post from last week discussing translation experts and the role they play, I was reminded by a friend about the Madeleine McCann case.
English-only hurts immigrants and translators
Last month, voters in the City of Nashville, Tennessee went to the voting booths to decide whether to make English the city’s official language. And,
References for legal writing
Recently I had to work on a long translation of a legal document, which is not the field I work with most often. I found
Research
We often get a translation on a topic that we don’t know in detail. What should we do? We have a few possibilities: If we
The RAE Dictionary
What do we mean when we say that the RAE (Real Academia Española) Dictionary is the only “accepted” dictionary for translating into or from Spanish?
How to search for terms or add a new term in MultiTerm:
When we are translating, surely we might want to add terms in order to complete our termbase or to search for a term in order
