A good editor is an essential part of a translation team, but working with a bad one may be a nightmare. A good editor must be a good transl...

A couple of interesting quotes from a recent, excellent article (from "The Australian") on new translations of Virgil : "The...

As translators, we are not supposed to work into our second language, only from it. However, we have to write in a foreign language when we ...

Words are the embryos of ideas, the seed of thought, the framework of reasoning, but their contents goes beyond the simple official definiti...

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug” Mark Twain

In the right-hand bar I've added three Technorati charts, to track the relative frequency in blogs of the strings "translation...

Continuing from my post of August 25 , some further evidence of just how badly designed the fuzzy matching algorithms are in Trados: So, acc...

I've just received a rather pushy call from an SDL/Trados representative. He wanted to know if I was considering upgrading from Trados 2...

I sometime wonder whether SDL Trados programmers even understand the concept of fuzzy matching, or, if they do, whether they care or have p...

One thing that riles me is the habit many translation companies have of calling us "linguists". According to my dictionaries, a li...