Bryant Hillas, Author at Trusted Translations, Inc.

Machismo in Spanish Writing?

I frequently notice in translations from English into Spanish that the translator attempts to make explicit an author’s reference to both sexes with the following type of construction: Todos los/as

September 25, 2009

Overcoming the Global Economic Crisis with Professional Translation

The present global economic scenario is looking pretty dire, and companies all over the planet are looking for clever new ways to maintain their customer base and expand it in

September 23, 2009

How to Use SDL Multiterm in Trados Workbench

This video offers a brief, succinct lesson on how to use MultiTerm as a plug-in in Trados Workbench, to create glossaries during a translation project.

September 18, 2009

How to Use Two-Word Nouns in Spanish

In Spanish, in constructions made up of two nouns that form one lexical unit in which the second noun modifies the first as if it were an adjective, usually only

September 18, 2009

When Translations Get Tricky

It’s common in the translation field to come across projects that evince enormous intercultural differences, obliging the translator to come up with some sort of ingenious solution to the issue.

September 14, 2009

Popular Sayings

“The walls have ears”During the second half of the 16th century in France, Catherine de’ Medici had acoustic conduits built into the walls of her palace to be able to

September 4, 2009

Can’t We All Just Get Along?!

Yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War, the bloodiest and most atrocious armed conflict of the 20th century. European leaders gathered in the small

September 2, 2009

How to Get Started with Trados

August 28, 2009

A Matter of Preference

As professional translators, we have to offer localized services depending on the public we’re dealing with. That’s why as native speakers of a given country or another, we need to

August 27, 2009

Mind What Ye Bloggeth…

There have been some volatile eruptions affecting the blogosphere of late, hence meriting a new post on the issue of blogging in our modern day and age. Last time round,

August 25, 2009

Language Statistics

• Quantity of living languages: 6912 • Quantity of language on the verge of extinction: 516 • Language with the largest quantity of native speakers: Mandarin Chinese • Language spoken

August 21, 2009

Language, History, and Politics

When is a language really a language, and not just a set of dialects? That is a difficult question to answer, and the Spanish language is a perfect case in

August 18, 2009

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