Jacobe, Author at Trusted Translations, Inc.

The Birth of a Language

Some time ago we wrote about code switching, and how this informal phenomenon manifests itself in virtually infinite ways. In that post, we mentioned Spanglish, Belgrano-Deutsch, Portuñol, and Llanito as

May 8, 2014

Can Artificial Languages Be Established?

Artificial languages, that is, languages constructed by humans based on the study of “natural” languages, have been created throughout history for multiple (and, indeed, very interesting) reasons, although they have

April 30, 2014

García Márquez and Translation

After hearing the sad news last week about the death of the great author Gabriel García Márquez, I began to think about how difficult it must have been to translate

April 23, 2014

Do You Want to Learn Spanish?

Spanish is the second-most spoken language in the world based on its number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese. It can therefore be very useful to know, given that it

April 16, 2014

What Is Nüshu?

This week, while surfing through an online video site, I came across a documentary on a group of women living in Hunan, a remote region in southern China, who have

April 9, 2014

What Are Syntactic or Structural Anglicisms in Spanish?

When analyzing a text in Spanish, regardless of whether it is a translation or not, the term “Anglicism” refers to those linguistic equivalencies that use a structure similar or identical

April 2, 2014

How Do We Quote DTP Services?

We often are presented with documents in the quoting process that need to go through a DTP (Desktop Publishing) stage either before or after the translation process. But, what is

March 26, 2014

How Are Different File Formats Processed for Translation?

Nowadays a wide variety of file formats exist. Depending on the complexity of the translation project we are undertaking, there may be different file formats we will need to work

March 12, 2014

Spanish Regionalisms and Idioms in Literary Translations

When reading a novel translated into Spanish, most readers hope it will have a “neutral” form of Spanish; that is, one without regional characteristics specific to any particular Spanish-speaking country.

March 5, 2014

The Importance of Terminology Management in Translation

One must recognize the fact that the Internet has changed the way we search for, receive, and exchange information. Nowadays, it is very common for images and videos to be

February 26, 2014

Hijitus, the Argentine Superhero

Las aventuras de Hijitus (The Adventures of Hijitus) was an animated series created by the great Spanish cartoonist Manuel García Ferré, first broadcasted in 1967. Ever since, it has formed

February 19, 2014

Interpretation Programs in Hospitals

Nowadays, it is very common to hear about interpretation services offered within hospital environments or in situations that have to do with health or medical consultations. This is due to

February 12, 2014

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