Let’s look some more at the “How much should I charge?” question, since it’s such a source of stress and speculation for most freelancers. You might also be interested in these previous posts–What is the right rate for your translation services, and How and why to raise your translation rates. If you want, you can have…
Category Archive for: Field of translation
Albert Gifford was eating Weetabix when he saw mistake on carton of Tesco orange juice made with the ‘most tastiest’ fruit Schoolboy from Somerset wrote to the supermarket giant to complain Tesco has now promised to correct the packaging in the future A schoolboy has forced Tesco to admit it made a mistake on the…
Final Fantasy Type-0, sometimes referred to as “that pretty decent one with the high school kids on the PSP that we never got in America,” will be getting an unofficial fan translation due this Aug. 8. Fans calling themselves Operation Doomtrain have translated a good portion of the game already, and they are currently in the…
The finalists for the Best Translated Book Awards were announced Tuesday, featuring 25 works originally published in 16 languages — none of them English. American publishing traditionally publishes a smaller percentage of works in translation than other nations — meaning we have a trade imbalance of culture. The blog Three Percent, which started the Best Translated Book…
Let me start out by saying that I love Machine Translation. There is just something magical about inputting text which is totally foreign to you on a computer screen, clicking a button and then reading it in your own language. If you are lucky enough to own your own MT server or software, like I…
SYSTRAN today announced the launch of its new corporate website designed with improved navigation capabilities and content platforms for enterprises, defense & security organizations and language service providers. The streamlined website marks SYSTRAN’s strategic decision to provide solution-based systems. The website located at systransoft.com is available in eight languages, using SYSTRAN’s own online service, SYSTRANLinks,…
Welocalize integrates vendor and account management platform with XTRF Translation Management System
Welocalize, a global leader in translation and localization services, announced the successful integration of the XTRF™ translation management system (TMS) connector into the proprietary Welocalize Project Management and Accounting platform. XTRF provides translation project and workflow management in addition to accounting features and quote administration services. The XTRF connector provides instant synchronization of translation project data…
I decided to write this post after yet another long proofreading job, clearing up the utter mess created by some anonymous colleague before me. It was full of some of the most basic and recurrent errors that one tends to find in bad German to English translations. It is hoped that this post will make…
I include this primer on the translation of poetry with pleasure and diffidence since I dislike dogma or prescription. Why not show preferences, to use Jorge Luis Borges’ favorite word for choice, judgment, discrimination, and taste? The ABC itself allows me some escape from a charge of inconstancy in method in that it indicates that method…
People who speak two or more languages often prefer to use one language over another, depending on the situation. This is especially true when it comes to cursing and insults. It seems that people prefer not to use their native languages to talk smack. Here’s why. In a study published a couple of months ago in PLoS…
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