Mirko M, Author at Trusted Translations, Inc.

The Social Role of Translations in Centuries Past

To understand the current translation market and its new trends, it is necessary to go back to the origins of this discipline and look at its evolution step by step.

October 10, 2012

Regional Soccer Terms That Go Global

In a previous post (Derby or Clásico?), we looked at some of the soccer terms which, by virtue of the incessant flow of Latin American players to Spain, the European

October 3, 2012

Languages and Their Power to Stave off Alzheimer’s

It is a well-known fact that bilingualism can be a big help in certain areas throughout one’s life, but it would seem that it saves its greatest benefits for old

September 24, 2012

Derby or Clásico?

As a Spanish-speaking translator, one straddling the ancestral variant of the language and its rioplatense lineage, I am often fascinated by the marked differences that exist between the expressions of

September 19, 2012

Anne Dacier’s Translation Legacy

In almost every discipline there are certain individuals who achieve fame and become memorable; they are admired by their peers in the field. These personalities usually transcend their area of

September 12, 2012

More Colloquial Expressions from Spain

This week I devoted a few hours to transcribing a series of talks on business leadership, which were given by a Basque speaker. The experience reminded me once again of

August 22, 2012

Cleaning Up Files in MemSource

Following up on the topic of MemSource and its many features, one of its biggest advantages is the way it allows you to clean up files after a translation. The

August 16, 2012

Of Goat Preferences and Other Spanish Expressions

Among the great treasures of the Spanish language, we find many a colorful turn of phrase; locutions so humble that perhaps they don’t make it into the category of universal

August 13, 2012

A Beginner’s Guide to MemSource

The following is a brief walkthrough on the use of a new translation tool: MemSource. As mentioned on a previous post, MemSource is a cloud-based translation service, where one can

August 4, 2012

On Homers and Fastballs

My father—who’s Argentine—has the good fortune of being able to read, in their original language, novels written in English. He prefers, whenever possible, to avoid the middleman and skip the

July 28, 2012

The Use of FTP in Translation Projects

For those who are not familiar with the term or the tool, FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. Perhaps for some the subject might be quite banal by now, given

July 18, 2012

There’s a New CAT in Town: MemSource Cloud

For those people who cannot or don’t want to use Trados, there are no longer any impediments. Many translators (actually, more than translators, they are just people who work as

July 14, 2012

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