Well it’s that time of year when the 2012 reviews and roundups proliferate, so I thought I’d do a quick one on the language and translation errors that made the headlines in 2012. London2012 I posted at the time about
Google Translate comes off better than the BBC? What is the world coming to…
While flicking through the news over my coffee this morning, I came across this article from the BBC : ‘Nicolas Sarkozy says France has too many foreigners’. But what stood out for me was not Sarkozy’s policy, but the quote
How do you translate an ‘appel’ into English?
I found myself asking this question this weekend, as I was ploughing through a piece of Master’s coursework. The piece we had been given to translate and produce a commentary on was this: ‘Impossible Absence‘ from Hors Champ.org. It is
Breaking News!
I was really pleased today to get confirmation from ITI that my application for Associate status membership has been accepted! I have been a Student member since February last year, but decided it was time to try for an
Unsolicited emails & new translators….
Just yesterday I was catching up on a few other translation blogs out there, and read among others this post on Translation Times about scam emails to translators. Then what do I find in my inbox this morning –