by Natalie Andrews | Apr 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Google translate, the machine translation (MT) service is believed to translate in excess of thirty trillion sentences/year (Kuczmarski, 2018)[1] in more than 100 languages. But would you let it translate your IFU into Japanese? MT applications may successfully... by Julia Tuff | Nov 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
TRANSLATION TERMINOLOGY EXPLAINED If you are not a part of the translation sector, you may not be familiar with some of the terms that are used. Here we try to demystify some of them with pithy explanations. Terms used by Language Service Providers... by Julia Tuff | Jun 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Languages are vanishing around the world at an alarming rate; every two weeks a language dies with its last speaker,according to UNESCO. Between 1950 and 2010, 230 languages went extinct and, today, a third of the world’s languages are spoken by fewer than 1000... by Julia Tuff | May 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
令和 Reiwa: what’s behind the name of Japan’s new era and what does the term really mean? The recent abdication of Japan’s emperor, Akihito, made history in more ways than one. Of note, he is the first Japanese emperor to step down in over 200 years. The accession of... by Julia Tuff | Apr 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Laughing matter: how to translate jokes Heard the one about the translator who walked into a bar? OK, maybe not, but how you’d translate the joke into another language would depend on the punchline. Does it play on words or offer a sly nod to a cultural reference... 