The human mind is a funny thing; it likes to play tricks on us. For example, when we proofread and edit our own writing, we tend to read it as we think it should be, which means we misread our own typos and other spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes as well as problems with word…
Category Archive for: Field of translation
One of the biggest challenges when traveling abroad is, not knowing the native language. Although English is spoken in many parts of the world, you will be surprised to know that only one-fourth of the World’s total population actually speaks the language. Thus, it is imperative that you hire a translation agency that is capable…
Objective This small compilation aims to help translators quickly find information on nomenclature and abbreviations from reliable sources in order to better adapt themselves to the market. In nature, the specialization of a species is detrimental to its long-term adaptation to an ever-changing environment. Does translators’ survival follow the theory of natural selection? Specialization seems…
Enigmo Inc. is pleased to announce the public launch of “Buyma Books,” the new platform service to translate books worldwide utilizing crowd sourcing. The books are translated into different languages in the form of an e-book that can be purchased off of the website, buymabooks.com. Enigmo, Inc. is pleased to announce the public launch of…
A $3 million wrongful death lawsuit accuses a 9-1-1 Spanish-language interpreter of botching the translation of an address and sending an ambulance to the wrong location as a 25-year-old woman was gasping for air. A total of 26 minutes ticked by as medics raced around searching for the woman in distress, received the correct address…
You have a WordPress website for your business and you want it translated into one or more languages. So you pick up the phone, call a translation agency, and ask for a quote. If you like the quote, you tell them to go ahead. Right? Wrong! Many prospective clients call us thinking that the process…
Do you ever feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day? You’re overwhelmed easily? Or that you’re working 24/7 with no time left for yourself? The reality is running a freelance translation business can feel like a juggling act. If you drop one ball everything can come tumbling down. Attaining a work-life balance may…
Duolingo’s push to “translate the web” is not as straightforward as it seems. Luis von Ahn, creator of the reCAPTCHA verification system that helps digitalize books, has set out to “translate the web into every major language.” In this TED talk, he reminds us the Internet is fragmented into multiple languages and that the biggest portion is…
Major hotel chains, credit card companies — even the federal government — are using a Boca Raton company to analyze Tweets and other online content. LinguaSys offers software that can translate and interpret online content in 17 languages: English, Arabic, traditional and simplified Chinese, German, French, Hebrew, Japanese, Malay, Spanish, Pashto, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Thai, Vietnamese and…
Software has performed the first real-time translation of a dolphin whistle – and better data tools are giving fresh insights into primate communication too. IT was late August 2013 and Denise Herzing was swimming in the Caribbean. The dolphin pod she had been tracking for the past 25 years was playing around her boat. Suddenly,…
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