TGIF! A translator’s dilemma. Many translators are often faced with the dilemma of what to do when they receive a poor source text to translate. Is it the translator’s duty to improve the source text so that the target translation sounds professional? Or should the translator simply ask the client to work on improving the source text?
Translators pull all-nighters just like night beasts – Purchase code A22
This is the counterpart of the translators are superheroes series as I’ve found a thing translators and villains have in common. In this case, it seems freelance translators and Dracula share the skills needed to be able to pull an all-nighter.
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Translators are superheroes who work tirelessly and silently to ensure the world communicates with the right words in the right context. Translators are language guardians who protect and forge the language in which people communicate. Translators make the world a better, well-written place.
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Translators do an amazing work conveying ideas from and into other languages, but their work is not acknowledged enough.
Translators do the magical job of conveying ideas from and into other languages so that people can better communicate. They usually put all their passion into their jobs, but this is not often acknowledged by others. Part of their jobs is to remain invisible, but appreciating their work won’t hurt.
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Translators have a unique language-related strategy to cope with insomnia. What’s yours?
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Translators have a unique language-related strategy to cope with insomnia.
Translators have a strategy to cope with insomnia.
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Can you guess who is a freelance translator? Watch the video until the end to find out who translates for a living. Do you think this is a myth or a truth about translators?
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Best practices for translators: be the professional you would hire
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