I’ve recently criticized here translators who don’t know how to communicate with translation companies, and start their messages with “Dear ...

Eugene Nida, a giant of translation studies, passed away on August 24. You can find a long and interesting post about him, his importance i...

Ever since hearing from Corinne McKay so many good things about Translate in the Catskills , a conference focused on target language writin...

I met Peter Newmark when I attended a translation seminar at the Polytechnic of Central London in 1990. Newmark was an excellent teacher: al...

Dear translators, I realize that, especially for beginners, finding new customers is difficult. So I am all in favor of your efforts to ma...

A frequent complaint against SDL Trados Studio 2009 is that sometimes the program doesn’t find matches the user is sure are in memory. The...

Some time ago Jonathan Goldberg of Le mot just en anglais , asked me to post here an announcement that he was looking for a collaborator for...

I've just deleted a comment that didn't even pretend to be about the post it purportedly commented: it was just a crappy ad for some...

On May 31st, while I was abroad, this blog reached a new nice round number: 250,000 page views served. On the next day, the results of th...

We are just back in Denver, in time for a weekend that included the Denver Public Library’s annual book sale.We normally enjoy the book sale...