At a certain translators and translation conference I attended back in 2009, there was a lot of buzz about how translators and translation companies should charge. It is not about the amount to charge for translation, but whether translation services …
We saw an interesting article written by Christina Sterbenz (Business Insider) and we would like to share it with everyone. There are 9 useful words in Russian with no English equivalent that we can possibly use in our speech to …
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Many countries have their own equivalent of April Fool’s Day. Let’s look at how April Fool’s Day is translated into different languages: In Italian, it is an “April fish”: Pesce d’aprile! In Turkish, it is “1 Nisan!”, meaning “April 1” …
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Is there such such a thing as words that are difficult to translate? Yes, I think there are indeed words that are difficult to translate, especially translating them into English. I would categorize words that are difficult to translate into …
OK is 175 years this Sunday. It first appeared in print, on page 2 of the Boston Morning Post, which was then one of the most popular newspapers in the US. Mr Allan Metcalf, who is an English professor in …