Tip of the Tongue

  It is an accepted vision that AI will soon entirely eliminate human writing. We old-timers will brag about how we wrote something by hand,...

  A word to the wise is sufficient, but only sometimes; a kick in the ass makes a far greater impression. As a case in point, this week I ma...

  Freelancer marketing has never been a simple task just as finding any proper professional for the first time has always been a bit of a ga...

  [AI image] “People out of my industry love to tell me how AI has eliminated my profession…” one lecturer said. Today, it seems that the mo...

  I n November and December, many professional associations, including those of translators, begin their annual membership campaigns. In rec...

  A s I wrote a few weeks ago, I have made the strategic decision to focus on my competitive advantage – Hebrew to English legal translatio...

  This last week, linguists celebrated International Translation Day. Many translator organizations and sites marked the occasion, notably P...

  Freelance translators, like many other professionals, see dark clouds. The media feeds stories on the ever-improving ability of AI to tran...

  Long translations pose special problems for translators. The intensive process involved in translating a long legal document or multipage ...

  [Painting by Dina Levin] In one of La Fontaine’s fables, a pig, sheep and goat are on a wagon on their way to the market. The pig squeals...

  I admit to feeling somewhat hostile about the idea of using AI in my work as a professional translator.Thus, I felt (and still feel) a nee...

  [catfish] “The agency offered three cents a word! How shameful! Even worse, there are translators that will agree to it!” Almost every exp...

  Last week, the Israel Translators Association (ITA) held its 2025 conference in Tel Aviv with the theme being the customer challenge, or m...

  [ruins of Greek temple] Many linguists, young and old, are considering whether it is a good time to begin a translating career in 2025 wit...