I'm doing an on-site linguistic QA of some complex software. This is often frustrating: programs that don't work, crash, get disconn...

The page views counter for this blog was at 99,982 yesterday night. When I checked this morning it had reached 100,042. A big thanks to all ...

When doing legal translations, I sometimes find myself trying to decipher badly handwritten text. Usually I manage to puzzle out the text, a...

Fabio Said has a post ( Installing many dictionaries as Firefox and Internet Explorer add-ons ) in fidus interpretes about installing dicti...

I have often criticized Trados, but this time it's another SDL product that comes up short: Idiom Workbench. When running the spelling c...

Should the translator contact the author, and if so, how much weight should the translator give to the author's overt intention as again...

Reading 462 books a year . Brings to mind a passage in Chaim Potok's The Chosen, where Reuven more or less tells Danny to knock it off, ...

Corinne McKay, in her blog " Thoughts On Translation ", has an excellent post on Avoiding beginner's mistakes . I would like ...

I'm developing a new class on software and web page localization for DU's University College. I plan to teach how to create a web p...

The English text used as a source language in an online translation recently concluded contains a word that may easily trip the unwary: ...