Author: CadenceTrans
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Chinese Simplified or Mandarin?
THE PRODUCTION BRIEF: ( A series of commentaries on day-to-day issues) IF IN CHINA, …. WELL, IT DEPENDS…. A client asked for Chinese translation and said that they wanted to publish the document in China as well as in Taiwan and Hong Kong. I gave the client an estimate for Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional.…
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How Translation Services Can Turn Negative into Positive
It is interesting how phrases from a different language have come to be used a great deal in English. Consider, for example, the Latin phrase “carpe diem,” generally translated as “seize the day.” Perhaps if this phrase had originated in English, it may have sounded a little odd. How do you “seize” a day? “Seizing”…
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I celebrate the translator as an ARTIST
People tell me the translation industry is doomed by Google Translate. I have more faith in the human process than the naysayers suggest. I use the analogy of artesanal products as what translation is all about. I look at our process and what we do is like digital embroidery and I celebrate the uniqueness of…