When we are trying to find the perfect person to fit in a certain position, we do not only analyze technical knowledge, but also bits of personal information that give the general picture of who that person is and her potential. With linguists, it is no different: They should have a combination of talent and […]
“All my professional life, I have felt that translators are in the business of spinning an illusion – the illusion is that the reader is reading not a translation but the real thing.” Anthea Bell Among the great names of distinguished authors and linguists, the world has lost yet another great one. On the past […]
Many writers reach stardom. Just think of Shakespeare, Moby Dick and J.K Rowling, amongst others. But can any of us name famous translators? After all, how popular would J.K Rowling’s novels be if there had been no translators to help her bridge her work to the rest of the non-English speaking world? Harry Potter was […]
Stripped down to its bare bones, the job of the translator can be viewed, above all else, as one of mediation: using a profound knowledge of two or more languages, the translator has the task of taking meaning in one tongue and transmitting it in another, acting as the link between the two. Seen this […]
Cinema, literature and television have, each in their own way, the ability to grant cultural standing to the various figures that comprise them. Before delving deeper into the figure in question here, let’s go over certain other representations that culture makes of the different actors that comprise it, from movie and theater directors, writers and […]
Have you heard about the car that doesn’t go? Legend goes that a major car company was introducing a new line called the Nova to the Latin American market. The biggest oversight that the company made was the language difference; in Spanish “nova” roughly translates to “not going.” Although in reality, “no va” in Spanish […]
Here in the editing office at Trusted Translations, we have many translators who work in different language pairs, from Spanish to English, English to Spanish, English to French…You name it, we have it! We are all native language speakers of the target language that we translate to. However, what happens when a client wishes to […]
As language professionals—translators, writers, editors, literature students, etc.—we tend to feel outraged whenever we hear or see grammatical, spelling or semantic errors, which unfortunately are becoming more common and generally accepted by laypersons, including friends and family. What’s worse, this is also happening in many media outlets. We are often shocked by the unrefined turn […]
The demand for translation is in an ever-increasing raise due to globalization, despite the worldwide economic crisis. The conventional way has been to process translations with the help of freelance linguists; however, nowadays there are also thousands of Translation Agencies around the world. One of the usual organizational structures for a Translation Agency involves having […]