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The objectives of a translation
April
15
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2021
Cut costs! Integrated Desktop Publishing (DTP) and Translation
April
8
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2021
What is Chinese?
April
1
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2021
Translation Memory: Optimising the translation process
March
25
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2021
Transcription services that match your needs
March
18
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2021
Transcription services at QuickSilver Translate
February
25
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2021
New service! Interpreting for online meetings
February
19
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2021
3 Easy Ways to Legitimately Get Fast Cash
January
12
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2021
New uses for the @-sign
December
9
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2020
What it takes to be a translator
October
8
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2020
Discover Translation: 5 Myths!
October
2
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2020
Discover Translation
September
30
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2020
The Translation Process
September
28
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2020
Academic Editing and Translation
September
21
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2020
Updating translations — version and maintenance
September
7
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2020
WordPress and WPML – how to obtain wordcounts
August
31
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2020
Speed in Translation
August
31
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2020
When is a less-than-perfect translation acceptable?
August
24
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2020
Design and layout for translation
August
17
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2020
Should I translate in-house or outsource it?
August
14
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2020
European vs Latin American Spanish
August
11
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2020
What do the names of countries mean?
August
5
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2020
The business of translation
August
3
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2020
Adding Value for Customers
July
24
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2020
How to translate in InDesign
July
17
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2020
Stages of translation
July
10
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2020
Who is the translation really for?
July
6
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2020
Why is it so easy to criticise a translation?
July
3
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2020
Types of translation projects
June
29
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2020
The Assembly Calculus
June
25
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2020
Preparing your Annual Report
June
22
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2020
We are Family! Language Families
June
19
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2020
Translating large technical documents
June
18
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2020
The History of the word ‘Slavery’
June
17
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2020
Translation style and tone
June
15
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2020
European vs Brazilian Portuguese
June
10
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2020
Idiocracy, government by idiots
June
9
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2020
The role of the internal reviewer
June
8
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2020
Are you up on Coronavirus Terminology?
June
3
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2020
Technical glossaries and termbases
June
1
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2020
Your neural Language Pathway is 25 million years old
May
29
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2020
The Etymology of the word ‘Vaccine’
May
28
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2020
Translation Memory FAQs
May
25
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2020
What is Translation Memory?
May
22
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2020
English: the Lingua Franca of Science
May
15
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2020
What should I be using machine translation for?
May
13
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2020
Coronavirus pandemic: Can we learn from the Plague?
May
5
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2020
Why you should never use Machine Translation on your website
April
30
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2020
Lost in Translation: When Translators Fail!
April
24
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2020
In-house vs. outsource
March
9
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2020
Reducing the hassle of translation!
February
24
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2020
Go multilingual with WordPress WPML
February
17
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2020
The Importance of Language in eCommerce
February
12
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2020
Machine translation and the future for translators
February
10
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2020
Who are the Language Martyrs?
February
5
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2020
British English vs. American English
January
29
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2020
History of Newspapers in India
January
27
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2020
Quirks and Difficulties of Phrasal Verbs
January
22
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2020
The differences between Indian and British English
January
17
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2020
U.S. Credit 101 for U.S. Immigrants
January
13
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2020
Christmas traditions around the world
December
30
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2019
Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year 2019
December
18
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2019
How to manage financial translations
December
2
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2019
How to translate from Catalan to English
December
2
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2019
Translation services for engineering
November
29
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2019
How to translate technical datasheets into Spanish
November
29
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2019
How to translate an Excel spreadsheet
November
27
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2019
How to create a terminology database or glossary
November
27
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2019
How to translate technical documents
November
27
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2019
How to translate a website into English
November
25
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2019
How to translate in Adobe InDesign
November
25
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2019
How to translate a Powerpoint presentation
November
25
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2019
How to translate a website into Spanish
November
21
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2019
How to translate a business report
November
21
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2019
How to translate my website
November
12
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2019
Medical translation and the problem of accuracy
November
12
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2019
How can I make PHP website multilingual?
November
7
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2019
How to find translation companies in Barcelona
October
20
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2019
Why QuickSilverTranslate.com?
October
14
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2019
3 Things to Consider When Expanding into Foreign Markets
October
8
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2019
Top 3 skills a translator should have
October
2
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2019
Understanding ethics and translation
September
23
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2019
The difference between translation and interpretation?
September
23
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2019
Boost sales with SEO and localization
September
3
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2019
4 ways to boost localization for global business
September
2
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2019
Translation and desktop publishing (DTP)
August
27
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2019
Localising fuel consumption
August
22
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2019
5 steps towards achieving quality in translation
August
20
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2019
Translating websites into Spanish
July
30
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2019
4 levels of Preferences in corporate translations
July
11
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2019
An introduction to translation software
July
9
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2019
5 Tips to becoming a successful translator
July
9
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2019
5 Mistakes to avoid when hiring a translation agency
June
21
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2019
5 Myths of translation and the translation industry
June
18
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2019
5 Tips on how to choose a translation agency
June
11
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2019
Not even large corporations are safe from translation blunders
May
15
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2019
Medical Translations: everything you need to know
May
6
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2019
New WPML translation service launched
February
13
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2019
How the internet has changed the way we write
February
6
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2019
Keywords for Snowboarding!
January
25
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2019
Takashi Sasaki
January
24
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2019
Why language-learners should study idioms
January
14
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2019
The Most Famous Newspapers
January
4
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2019
Worst Translations of 2018
December
30
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2018
Top Films to see at Christmas
December
26
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2018
Topics you should avoid at Christmas Dinner!
December
24
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2018
The importance of good translations in the hotel industry
October
28
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2018
Five thrillers to read this summer
July
31
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2018
How to become a freelance translator- Part 1
June
3
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2018
General Data Protection Regulation
June
3
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2018
How to recognize a good translator
March
19
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2018
The Key Factors To Learn A New Language
February
7
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2018
Best films to learn English
January
30
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2018
Business English vs colloquial
January
25
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2018
How important is it to learn idioms?
January
18
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2018
The Worst Translations of The Last Year (2017)
January
17
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2018
Common Expressions at Christmas Time
January
11
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2018
The best colloquial expressions in English
December
21
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2017
Machine Translations Tips And Tricks
December
13
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2017
Business English
December
1
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2017
Should You Rely On Online Translation Tools?
November
24
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2017
How To Choose The Best Translation Agency
November
10
,
2017
The Difference Between Automatic Translation And Professional Translation
October
19
,
2017
Translation: a brief look at where it began and where it is going
October
11
,
2017
Can we translate directly from PDF?
September
18
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2017
What are the steps to becoming a freelance translator?
July
25
,
2017
Decimal separators and thousands separators – commas or dots?
October
7
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2016
TRADUCCIÓN Y MAQUETACIÓN
July
7
,
2016
EL PAPEL DEL REVISOR INTERNO PARTE 3
June
30
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2016
AHORRO DE COSTES: TRADUCIR UN POWERPOINT
May
26
,
2016
¿Cuánto debería cobrar un servicio de traducción profesional?
May
19
,
2016
SEO y las páginas web multilingües
April
28
,
2016
Hotel brochure by Google Translate
April
20
,
2016
Cost saving: translation memory on drafts
February
4
,
2016
Spanish in the United States – Part 1
December
2
,
2015
What is ‘Quality’ in Translation? Part 2
November
23
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2015
What is ‘Quality’ in Translation? Part 1
November
18
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2015
Translating blogs and social networking
November
4
,
2015
QuickSilver’s transcription service
October
26
,
2015
Translation in the retail industry
October
22
,
2015
An example of levels of quality in translation
October
20
,
2015
What do we mean when we say quality?
October
14
,
2015
Translating for the fire protection industry
October
5
,
2015
ISO 9001 Standards and Translation
September
30
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2015
ISO 9001 Standards
September
21
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2015
The Limitations of Freehand Translation
September
17
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2015
Cost saving: translation memory
September
2
,
2015
Cómo encontrar el proveedor de servicios lingüísticos ideal
August
14
,
2015
ISO 639 2-letter language codes
August
10
,
2015
Evaluar la “calidad” de una traducción
August
7
,
2015
Developing and sustaining multi-lingual websites
July
16
,
2015
QuickSilver’s philosophy regarding confidentiality in translation
July
8
,
2015
Why is it important to localize?
July
1
,
2015
Best Practice: Format conversion in translation part 2
June
22
,
2015
Best Practice: Format conversion in translation
June
17
,
2015
Cost saving: Translating a PowerPoint
May
6
,
2015
Preference, mistake or caprice?
May
1
,
2015
Machine Translation vs. Translation Memory
April
28
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2015
The importance of glossaries: Behälder/Flasche
April
22
,
2015
What is a guiri?
April
15
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2015
Humours, saudade, sawda, melancholy
April
10
,
2015
Translating marketing collateral
April
5
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2015
Desktop publishing and text length
March
25
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2015
The audience of a translation
March
18
,
2015
The etymology of route
March
10
,
2015
Guesswork in translation
March
4
,
2015
Oscar Winner!
February
24
,
2015
SEO and multi-lingual websites
February
18
,
2015
Optimising the internal review process
February
13
,
2015
Choosing a translator
February
4
,
2015
Some thoughts on ‘quality’ in translation
January
29
,
2015
Criteria for judging translations
January
17
,
2015
Translation and desktop publishing
January
8
,
2015
Does size matter when choosing a language service provider? (2 of 2)
December
12
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2014
Does size matter when choosing a language service provider? (1 of 2)
December
11
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2014
Added value in translation services
November
26
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2014
How to Translate Degrees
November
17
,
2014
The Price of Translation
November
12
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2014
Do they offer other value-added services?
November
5
,
2014
Is someone keeping an eye on the timeline?
November
3
,
2014
Who are they?
October
31
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2014
Do they use translation memory?
October
27
,
2014
False friends – standard
October
25
,
2014
How do they ensure a flawless translation?
October
23
,
2014
Do they have professional processes in place?
October
20
,
2014
How do they select their translators?
October
17
,
2014
Picking the right supplier
October
15
,
2014
What can I do internally to enhance the translation process?
October
13
,
2014
How should I think of QUALITY?
October
10
,
2014
How should I think of COST and VALUE?
October
8
,
2014
What is my timetable?
October
3
,
2014
What do I mean when I say I want “quality”?
October
1
,
2014
What languages do I need?
September
29
,
2014
Who is the end user?
September
25
,
2014
Streamlining the translation process
September
9
,
2014
Numbers: What about American units?
August
25
,
2014
Dates: what’s the right format
August
21
,
2014
How to find the ideal translation supplier
August
12
,
2014
Numbers: Is the inch a metric unit?
August
4
,
2014
ISO 9001 Certification – The Differentiating Factor Part 2
July
22
,
2014
ISO 9001 Certification – The Differentiating Factor Part 1
July
21
,
2014
Numbers: Should translators get them right?
July
16
,
2014
Numbers: Decimal comma or decimal point?
July
14
,
2014
False friends – actually
July
12
,
2014
False friends – eventually
July
11
,
2014
Spelling: -ize or -ise?
July
1
,
2014
The Role of the Internal Reviewer Part 3
June
25
,
2014
The Role of the Internal Reviewer Part 2
June
24
,
2014
The Role of the Internal Reviewer Part 1
June
23
,
2014
El papel de la traducción en la usabilidad web
June
17
,
2014
What makes a language service provider outstanding?
June
1
,
2014
Optimising with Translation Memory
December
17
,
2013
Best practice: giving feedback on translations
December
5
,
2013
Translating ‘short-life’ content
November
26
,
2013
A Midsummer Night’s Bad Dream
November
15
,
2013
Translation solutions for the housing and construction sector
November
14
,
2013
Translation solutions for the retail industry
November
12
,
2013
Music and tone languages
October
30
,
2013
Schoenberg’s Serial Music
October
24
,
2013
Words for today
October
20
,
2013
Translating/converting temperatures
October
17
,
2013
Hummingbirds and butterflies
October
15
,
2013
Borges and Thurber on the (in)fidelity of translations
October
11
,
2013
Translation Memory 101
October
7
,
2013
Twentieth Century Hungarian Literature!
October
3
,
2013
Translating flow
September
29
,
2013
Is a translation a commodity or a service?
August
16
,
2013
Building retroactive translation memories
August
12
,
2013
Best practice: managing the translation cycle
July
19
,
2013
SEO with non-Latin alphabets
July
6
,
2013
Mercury
June
19
,
2013
Counsel, counsellor and council (and Handel)
June
10
,
2013
Best practice: website localization
June
10
,
2013
New(ish) translation of Gyorgy Faludy
June
1
,
2013
El controvertido tema de los dialectos
May
29
,
2013
Celador, kumquat, farfallina
May
22
,
2013
A few gems from MacAlpine’s Gaelic Dictionary (1833)
May
4
,
2013
Localizing marketing material: you jus gotta!
April
30
,
2013
More literary word-games…
April
28
,
2013
Versions of Homer
April
6
,
2013
Cant; Verlan; Yugoslavian underworld slang
April
2
,
2013
Lunfardo
March
23
,
2013
Translating Ka
March
18
,
2013
Clandestine dubbing for Manga
March
17
,
2013
Cost saving: translating powerpoint
March
2
,
2013
Passing data 2.0
February
27
,
2013
QuickSilver Translations abre oficina en Miami, Florida
February
13
,
2013
Government spending on translation
February
1
,
2013
Guesswork in translation
January
4
,
2013
Seasons greetings from QuickSilver Translate!
December
25
,
2012
Industries or sectors?
November
30
,
2012
Numbers: get them right!
November
23
,
2012
Metric inches
November
19
,
2012
Robinsoe Crusoe in words of one syllable
November
17
,
2012
Eliot Weinberger on a new translation of the Psalms
November
12
,
2012
The -ize have it
November
4
,
2012
Translating ‘standard’
November
1
,
2012
Translating acronyms
November
1
,
2012
Should you translate into your native language?
October
25
,
2012
Chinese: simplified or traditional?
October
18
,
2012
More unexpected etymologies…
October
15
,
2012
First steps towards localization
September
22
,
2012
The French Revolutionary Calendar
September
17
,
2012
Metrics for evaluating translations
September
16
,
2012
What can I use machine translation for?
September
9
,
2012
Evaluating a language service provider
September
6
,
2012
What is Computer Aided Translation?
August
25
,
2012
Who is the translation for?
August
19
,
2012
Integrating DTP and translation: text length
August
15
,
2012
Speeding up the translation process
August
11
,
2012
Cost-saving in the translation process
August
9
,
2012
Which languages do you need to translate into?
July
26
,
2012
Establishing what your translation needs are
July
22
,
2012
Leading edge processes in translation
July
5
,
2012
The importance of website localization
June
25
,
2012
Why a language service provider should specialise
June
22
,
2012
QuickSilver’s proofreading service
June
13
,
2012
The curious etymology of gloss
June
9
,
2012
The importance of translating marketing collateral
June
5
,
2012
The cost of translation: towards a more nuanced perspective
June
1
,
2012
Integrating design and translation: a no-brainer, frankly
May
29
,
2012
Financial Translations
May
25
,
2012
Translation solutions for the non-governmental sector
May
20
,
2012
The day before yesterday
May
15
,
2012
Translation Memory: potential pitfalls
May
12
,
2012
Designing an internal review process that works (2)
May
9
,
2012
Optimising your internal review process 1: what can go wrong
May
4
,
2012
The ‘traditional’ translation cycle
April
10
,
2012
Same language, different markets
April
3
,
2012
What can I do internally to streamline the translation process?
February
11
,
2012
The ‘modern’ translation cycle
December
5
,
2011
Building ‘retroactive’ translation memories
December
1
,
2011
Translation: commodity or service?
November
24
,
2011
break the ice
November
22
,
2011
The difference between TM and MT
November
17
,
2011
SEO in countries which don’t use Latin script
November
15
,
2011
SEO, multilingual websites and translation
November
10
,
2011
Translation Memory: potential pitfalls
November
8
,
2011
Multilingual websites & Content Management Systems
October
31
,
2011
Translation Memory: data protection/copyright issues
October
27
,
2011
The post-colonial politics of translation
October
27
,
2011
Misleading food
October
25
,
2011
Coming soon: eBooks!
October
20
,
2011
Etymology for adults
October
18
,
2011
The Troubadours 2: a poem in 5 languages
October
11
,
2011
What is a dialect?
October
5
,
2011
Translators without borders needs you
July
29
,
2011
Reviewing translations: preferences vs. mistakes
July
20
,
2011
Ted Hughes on translating poetry
June
28
,
2011
Mean, median, mode
June
27
,
2011
Sweet bread
June
23
,
2011
Translating Hernández
June
22
,
2011
Marías and Hofstadter on the philosophy of translation
June
17
,
2011
Sensuous impression merely!
June
15
,
2011
Backwards slangs 2: verlan
June
10
,
2011
Guerilla translation: fansubbing
June
8
,
2011
Backward slangs 1: Lunfardo
June
3
,
2011
Translating Jabberwocky
May
27
,
2011
Facebook Digest 20/5/11: wordy rappinghood
May
25
,
2011
The shadow of his language
May
18
,
2011
Best practice: translating market collateral 2
May
16
,
2011
Notes from an impromptu lunchtime brainstorm, rendered in blank verse
May
13
,
2011
Rendering Homer
May
11
,
2011
False friends in business 2: Spanish
May
9
,
2011
Well supplied with porridge
May
6
,
2011
Best practice: translating market collateral 1
May
4
,
2011
The dark side of Google Translate
May
2
,
2011
Express
March
7
,
2011
Criticising translators and their work
March
2
,
2011
Two reflections on literary translation
February
23
,
2011
Verschlimmbessern
February
21
,
2011
Fun with vowels 1: lipograms and Eunoia
February
21
,
2011
From pidgin to creole
February
21
,
2011
Fairytale localisation 2: Rumpelstiltskin
February
21
,
2011
Fairytale localisation 1: Cinderella
February
21
,
2011
Managing the internal review process
February
21
,
2011
Government translation budgets
February
21
,
2011
Verbs for tranferring data
February
21
,
2011
Translation memory: the basics
February
21
,
2011
‘Culturnomics’
February
21
,
2011
Booting and browsing
January
17
,
2011
Georges Perec: not as easy as one assumes
January
17
,
2011
Picaflor, luli, tznuum, da-hi-tu-hi
January
10
,
2011
On the day of the day of this day
January
7
,
2011
The perils of machine translation
December
3
,
2010
3 mois de stage à QuickSilver Translations
January
21
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2010
No long words
November
25
,
2009
找到理想的语言服务供应商-3. 所谓质量到底是什么？
July
29
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2009
ISO 9001 认证-辨别性要素
May
20
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2009
为翻译(桌面出版或DTP)
May
15
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2009
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