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Monday, July 31, 2023

Translating If - Essential learning for new and renewing translators

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  [world map on hands*] Freelancer translators, as one-person businesses, must become multiskilled to one degree or another. They must be ma...
Monday, July 24, 2023

Tales of the unexpected (results of taxation)

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  [clay tax collector figure*] What do Irish traditional houses, California avocados and Hungarian sausages have in common? They are all the...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

Coming out smelling like roses – Successful selling to the reluctant in Los Angeles

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  [red rose*] My bi-annual trip to Los Angeles to see my aging mother does also lead to marketing insights as I have written about before. T...
Monday, July 3, 2023

The sound and the fury? Interpreting foreign pitch and volume

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  [multiple converations*] Consider these two scenes: (1) I remember hearing my ex-neighbors, of Iranian and Tunisian background with four k...
Monday, June 26, 2023

Freelance service providers – Beware of unlimited liability clauses in agreements

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  [minefield warning*] T he attitude of many freelancers staring at a long agency agreements with small print is either to consider it a “mi...
Monday, June 19, 2023

Terrible technical translation – Obvious signs and simple preventative measures

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  ["no|'*] T here are very few sounds as disconcerting as the groan of a translation reviewer when seeing a disastrous text that  e...
Monday, June 12, 2023

Do you also speak English? – Why English as a second language is generally better in certain countries

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  [women showing confusion*] Several years, I attended a conference in Valencia, the third largest city in Spain, and needed to talk to a ba...