Category ST & TT languages
Because, Owing, Due to…
I have taken a leaf from André Racicot and have decided to consecrate this blog entry to a specific English grammar concept. Since I have recently been fascinated by the use of because, owing to, and due to in English writing, I thought about writing something on the subject. How many times have you seen […]
Linguee Available in Other Languages!
Last February, I wrote a blog entry about Linguee, a unique translation database that stores several terminology records from a variety of government, not-for-profit, and promotional texts. Late last year, the staff of Linguee’s English-language department added six new languages to the existing language combinations: Russian, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Polish. Just recently, I […]
Attempting to translate into another target language
Because I have quite a bit of down time this long weekend, I decided to do something I thought I would never do: attempt to translate into a language that is not my mother tongue. At first I assumed the experiment would be a total disaster. In the end, I was rather surprised with the […]
Some burning translation questions…
Last week, a Montreal-based communications firm contacted me to translate a short Spanish text into English—my first Spanish project of the year! Once I completed a draft, I sent it to a fellow colleague for revision. Before submitting the final version, I spent several moments soaking in the comments and suggestions the reviser made. By […]
Dwain Richardson 