Mirko M, Author at Trusted Translations, Inc.

Europe’s Hopes and Dreams and Its Linguistic Reality

The latest publication from Eurobarometer (the survey system that collects statistical data on public opinion in Europe) yielded a series of figures that point to the increasing importance of multilingualism

June 30, 2012

Translating Websites with Google

The benefits of automatic translation are beyond compare. So much so that just a few years ago (in 2009), Google launched a tool (complementary to Google Translate) that allows you

June 20, 2012

Trusted Marketing Translations

The translation of marketing material ranks among Trusted Translations’ main linguistic activities. Every day we get requests from customers who are looking to expand their companies’ reach and who therefore

June 13, 2012

In Search of That Tiny Slanted Mark

It would seem that with each passing day the Spanish diacritic, or accent mark, is disappearing more and more. Go out for a walk and you’ll see that it’s not

June 8, 2012

New Fall-Winter Designs

Today I’d like to wrap up this series of posts on fashion-related vocabulary by turning my attention to those garments for which I had no space in my previous post.

June 1, 2012

Effective Proofreading Tips

As we all know, a translation usually goes through three stages (in general): the translating per se, editing and proofreading (or proofing). In order to guarantee the quality of the

May 25, 2012

Wearable Jargon Fall-Winter Collection

A couple of weeks ago, I published an article in this blog relating to the jargon of the clothing industry. In it, I talked about different types of garments, cuts,

May 17, 2012

What Would Sisyphus Say?

We would like to believe that once we finish a translation we will never think about it again. However, we know that’s not the case. Seldom is a translator fully

May 11, 2012

Fashionable Jargon

I recently noticed that the people who keep close watch on the various trends in clothing design tend to use a very specific vocabulary, one which often lies outside the

May 4, 2012

Translating Is No Joke . . . or Is It?

A few weeks ago, we talked about the difficulty inherent in the translation of poetry. Along with poetry, another category of communication that is difficult to translate is humor. As

April 27, 2012

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