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What Are False Friends?

The great thing about exploring a Romance language (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and others) is the many similarities one will find amongst certain words in these various languages. It’s always

May 27, 2013

Día E Is Near

Since 2009, on the Saturday closest to the summer solstice, the Cervantes Institute celebrates Día E (S Day): “the holiday of all Spanish speakers,” as advertised by the Center itself.

May 15, 2013

Fun with Homophones

Last week we spoke about a curious group of words known as heteronyms: words that are spelled the same as each other, but which are pronounced differently. Aside from being

May 14, 2013

Web Site Translations

The decisions we must make when quoting a web site are fundamental to the quality and costs of the project’s end results. Therefore, when a potential client inquires about a

May 3, 2013

How About Some Dictionary Interaction?

Translators, editors, lexicologists, philologists, poets and other language professionals will no doubt find a novel source of joy in this new online resource: an interactive (and very practical) version of

May 1, 2013

Should Words in English Contain Accent Marks?

Growing up in a bilingual home setting, I was very lucky to learn both Spanish and English from a young age. I never had to think much about what I

April 29, 2013

More Commonly Misused Words

Referring back to the last blog post “Commonly Misused Words”, we were able to see how some words we were saying, writing, or have heard, were in fact, being used

April 16, 2013

Translating Text in Images

In general, when submitting a translation project the client requests a mirror image of the source document to be delivered. This includes the formatting, the design, as well as the

April 12, 2013

Typographical Symbols and Their Surprising Origins

Since the arrival of the printing press in the middle of the fifteenth century, when Johannes Gutenberg’s invention ushered in the modern age, operators of the printing press the world

April 6, 2013

Post-editing: What is that?

The idea of using computers for translation is not a touch&go, it has been touch&stay since the 1950’s. It was first proposed by A.D. Booth in 1946 and in 1954,

April 5, 2013

How Important Is the Quoting Stage?

The quoting of a project is as important as the process in which the work is actually done. Quoting at the lowest price, for example, will attract clients and provides

April 2, 2013

Project Manager or Translator?

As we all know, the world of translations can get a little hectic in certain situations. For example, when clients need a translation done by “yesterday.” That’s when stress begins

March 28, 2013

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