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Monday, August 26, 2024

Rue de Paradis – freelancing and the past, present and future of commercial concentration

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  [crystal vase*] When I visited my family in Paris at the age of 16 in the mid-1970s, I was amazed when I discovered Rue de Paradis (10th a...
Monday, August 19, 2024

On misfeasance, browsewrap and exhaustion or the fruits of summer school

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  [Exhausted man in office*] For many non-retail businesses, August is a sleepy month, to put it mildly. In Israel, it even used to be calle...
Monday, August 5, 2024

Names of seasons – A linguistically dynamic spectrum

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  [pomegranates and grapefruits*] All civilizations and, therefore, all languages label their seasons in one way or another. In practice, th...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Guidelines to translator buyers – the path to a cost-effective quality translation

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  [balanced price and value*] Effective translation requires time and skill. While machine translation of various types can often provide a ...
Monday, July 22, 2024

Form templates – A translator’s view

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  [Greek salad*] As a legal and financial translator, my work primarily consists of two types of documents, long legal texts involving speci...
Monday, July 15, 2024

To and around the point – the impact of social directness.

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  [circles in a tree trunk*] At a recent translator conference in France, I observed the reaction of the audience of several hundred people,...
Monday, July 8, 2024

Stupid lexicon analysis or the art of insulting someone’s intelligence

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  [bunny*] Vocabulary development among languages is neither evenly distributed or uniform. Yet, people around the world appreciate the art ...