Category : Translation
Translation for E-learning Part 2 It’s the Technology!
This is the second part of Kevin Watson’s piece on translation for E-learning. Pretty good job, hope you find it useful. -Translation Guy It takes a special kind of translation team to wrangle an e-training translation job. Last time, we talked about the linguistic care our word wranglers took to
Circle of Trust: Editing Translation
Its tough to buy a translation when you don’t speak the language. Correction. It’s easy to buy, its just tough to know what you bought. Now you can always hire someone else to check it for you, like another language service provider, or do a language managment thing for youself
Learn a Language, Work for Free Part 3 With New Luddite Lite™!
Last couple of posts I’ve been ranting at the prince of crowd-sourcing, Luis Von Ahn, and raving about his plan to replace professional translators with language students. By providing free language lessons, his new site Duolingo will lure unsuspecting second-language wannabes onto a fun and free language study site. He’ll
Learn a Language, Work for Free, Part 2 Limburger Cheese Protocal
Learn a language and translate the Web for free is the latest plan hatched by Luis Von Ahn, inventor of reCAPTCHA and master of getting millions to work for him for free. Don’t know the guy? Let me introduce you to your boss. You work for Von Ahn every time
Learn a Language, Work for Free: Part 1
“Luis Von Ahm claims he can translate Wikipedia – all 2 billion words of it – from English into Spanish in just 80 hours. What’s more, he will not have to pay anyone to do the work.” Von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon computer scientist and serial internet entrepreneur, plans to unleash
Translator Condemned to Death
January 9, Iran announced that Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, a former United States Marine from Flint, Mich., convicted of spying for the Central Intelligence Agency, had been condemned to death. Hekmati, of Iranian descent, was arrested in August when he went to visit his grandmother in the Islamic Republic. Hekmati, who
Fighting Words: Adversarial Translation
Earlier this month, the appeals court in Lago Agrio, Ecuador, upheld an $18 billion award against against Chevron, in the largest judgment ever awarded in an environmental lawsuit. For legal industry rubberneckers this case has it all – environmental rapine, disenfranchised indigenes, crazy case law, justice for sale, and the
My Name is Translation Guy, and I am a Christmas Carol Whistler
Just like a fruit cake, I am infused with holiday cheer. Remember that guy standing behind you in the check-out line the other day, whistling along to “The Little Drummer Boy” playing over the intercom? That was me. So for the last week, I’ve been wanting to share that special
Word Lens in French: Un-Augmented Reality Sucks
Reality is for people who can’t handle augmented reality, yo. Like in reality, if you look at a sign, and it’s in French, and you can’t read French, then you can’t read the sign, which sucks. But in augmented reality, if you can’t read French, and you hold up your
Traduttore, Traditore in Thai
The verdict was traduttore, traditore, “(translator, traitor”) in a Thai court last week, when judges sentenced Thai translator Joe Gordon to two and a half years in prison for translating part of a book banned in Thailand as critical of the king. Lese-majesty is what the French call if, for
