I've written a small freeware utility for the localization course I'm teaching at DU. I needed some source code for an exercise, and...

Up to now I knew Babylon only as providers of dictionary software. They offer a straightforward application to query several dictionaries a...

According to an article in the Boston Business Journal , Lionbridge will cut 325 positions globally (about 8% of its staff). Liobridge reco...

From Sidney I. Landau, " Dictionaries, The Art and Craft of Lexicography ": Avoid circularity. Since the primary purpose of a dict...

Most bloggers see their blog as a means to open a discussion with others. Hence the "comments" feature. Some bloggers, of course, ...

Often translators complain about translation tests, and ask why, instead, they couldn't just send out samples of their translations, per...

I was reading an article by Ben Yagoda " The inevitable epicene solution " (very interesting piece about the growing prevalence of...

“Anything worth writing about is worth explaining. But you can't make something clear to someone else if it isn't clear to you. Befo...

A recent post in " Musings from an Overworked Translator ", Jill Sommer's excellent blog, brought back the old days of mechan...

Most translators have studied the grammar of several different languages. Paradoxically, sometimes we are most out of date with the grammar ...