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Showing posts with label ATA. Show all posts
Monday, June 29, 2026

Shibboleth – French legal terminology then and now

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  Traditionally, legal language has two purposes: to provide a precise term and to prevent the uninitiated from understanding. The Plain Lan...
Monday, May 25, 2026

A call for a small action – Freelancers of the nation, unite!

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  It has been some 100 years since the heyday of unions. Today, the sad truth is fewer and fewer workers, both freelance and salaried, feel ...
Monday, January 20, 2025

The more, the merrier? – the mult-presenter experience

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  [3 perfomers] In my final year at UC Santa Cruz more than 40 years ago, I took a senior seminar entitled “History of Socialism”. What was ...
Monday, May 27, 2024

Certified madness – what is an official translation

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  [official stamp*] In translation, one of those simple questions that requires a long answer is “can you provide a certified translation”? ...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Mind your French (and English)!

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[Flags of the United Kingdom and France*] Profiting from some free time this Friday (to accentuate the positive as Johnny Mercer ...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Certified translation for immigration purposes

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An essential part of the immigration process is providing the required documents to the authorities. If the documents are not in Englis...
Friday, November 1, 2019

Diversity and hope

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I just returned from the ATA60 (American Translators Association) Conference in Palm Springs. It was a large event, with some 1400 par...