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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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April 11, 2012
