Jose, Author at Trusted Translations, Inc.

Language is a virus from outer space

So far, we (meaning I) have looked at language and translations as: – a deterrent to cultural genocide – a form of time travel – something maybe invented by God

January 29, 2016

Consider the Octopus

A few posts ago we were talking about the ever-growing presence of emoticons, emojis, animated gifs, and other visual forms of communicating; and also, how really it has become an ever-growing

January 8, 2016

I see what you mean (or: The untranslatable yellow face of doom)

It’s been mentioned here before, the use of emoticons to communicate to each other, and questioning if this might be a new form of communication, a new language. As far

December 10, 2015

Memo from the Sports Desk, pt. 1 (or: Superman vs. QA vs. Panda)

Look up in the sky! Is it a plane? No! Is it a bird? No! It’s Supermaaan! I’m sure I’m not the first one to mention it, but how does someone

October 26, 2015

By the time you finish reading this, three or four languages will die

There’s a scene in Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World, where the filmmaker goes around the McMurdo base in Antarctica, interviewing the different people there. All sorts

October 5, 2015

Fear & Loathing in the Editing Room, pt. 1 (or: Translation Memories vs. Projects vs. Term Bases vs. Godzilla vs. Broken coffee machine)

“People engage in conversation, for it is there that news is communicated […] A molla will stand up in the middle […] and begin to preach in a loud voice,

September 15, 2015

Blog in Other Languages

Language is a virus from outer space

Consider the Octopus

I see what you mean (or: The untranslatable yellow face of doom)

Memo from the Sports Desk, pt. 1 (or: Superman vs. QA vs. Panda)

By the time you finish reading this, three or four languages will die

Fear & Loathing in the Editing Room, pt. 1 (or: Translation Memories vs. Projects vs. Term Bases vs. Godzilla vs. Broken coffee machine)

Kiddo, you have a God-given gift (or: Chant down Babylon – what the Vatican doesn’t want you to know)

You, the time-binding animal

We have to finish this simple: notes toward an experiment

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