Renaming Files for Website Translations
Consider the following scenario, which has come up a few times in our company: we need to translate a web site that has got lots
September 4, 2012
UTF-8 vs UTF-16
Most, if not all, translators nowadays use some kind of CAT tool to help them with their work. Trados has been the standard for the
August 24, 2012
Processing TMX with sed
This entry is a bit complex, but possibly some translators with a technical lean might find it useful. Some time ago I wrote about the
August 10, 2012
Character encoding in HTML
For historical reasons, the English alphabet and many of its punctuation marks are encoded in electronic devices in a universal and unique way. This encoding
July 24, 2012
More on ambiguity and logic
In a previous post we mentioned the ambiguity of or in day-to-day speech. There is another construction that also exhibits this kind of ambiguity, but
July 10, 2012
A tale of two translations
A couple of weeks ago, in the weekly Chess tactics lesson of my local club (Oh, no! Not another entry about Chess!), the game we
June 26, 2012
Chess across languages
Surfing around, I came across this page, which presents the names given to the chess pieces in other languages: foreign names of chess pieces. It
June 12, 2012
Evaluating SymEval
SymEval is a tool written in Python for measuring the effort invested in the Post-Editing (PE) process. It reports the edit distance between segments in
June 5, 2012
The ambiguity of “or”
One of the most curious ambiguities that I know of is the two different meanings of the connective “or”. It’s got an “inclusive” and an
May 23, 2012
Do Aliens dream of electric ships?
Planet Earth. Saturday 12th September 2048. Huge spaceship. Humongous. Hovering over Sao Paulo, USB(1). A few others in other big cities. Finally they are here!
May 9, 2012
Grammars: where Linguistics meets Computer Science
Noam Chomsky is a celebrity in many fields. Some translators get surprised when I mention that he is also well known in Computer Science. He
April 25, 2012
Fully translatable humor
Not being a professional translator myself but being daily in contact with them, I can only imagine how hard it is to translate jokes based
April 11, 2012
