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CEO of 1-800-Translate and the author of the Translation Guy Blog
I'm the CEO of 1-800-Translate, a translation and localization firm offering a full suite of multilingual communications services to leading international businesses, growing our business one client (or more) at a time. I've been doing this for 14 years.
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Why We WriteMay 17th, 2012
You Talking to Me?May 14th, 2012
Autism and Language Research: “The Cost of Being Human”May 11th, 2012
Cookie LocalizationMay 9th, 2012
What is the Best Language to Learn?May 7th, 2012
I just want to feel pretty. Is that so wrong? Every year the fans of this blog vote Translation Guy the best language blog in the Lexiophile Language Lovers contest, and every year we win the popular vote in all categories by significant margins. But except for our Twitter win last year, we’re always the [...]
As a Mother’s Day treat, my wife and I made Izzi, our 17-year-old, watch Taxi Driver (1976), Martin Scorsese’ dark masterpiece set on the mean and nasty streets of ‘70s NYC. This was our misguided attempt to show Izzi, my enriched little East Sider, the city we once knew and loved, back when you could [...]
Autism is the Trojan Horse of the gift of speech, according to Yale neurobiologist Nenad Sestan, “The same evolutionary mechanisms that may have gifted our species with amazing cognitive abilities have also made us more susceptible to psychiatric disorders such as autism.” In a recently published paper in the journal Cell, Sestan and his team [...]
As if one language isn’t enough… I like cocktails so much that I’ve learned to tolerate cocktail party conversation, especially after my third tequila sunrise. At least the conversation are similar enough sothat it’s easy to remember what to say. It starts like this: I tell people I’m in the translation business, then they ask how many [...]
