NOTIZIE DAL MONDO DELLA TRADUZIONE

I’m sure that you picture a big company with a big marketing department that invests a huge amount in exporting and importing goods.
The truth is that translators can:
Reduce the risk of an international trade strategy.
Offer native knowledge about the market that you want to target.
Deal with intercultural factors that may different between your culture and the new culture that you want to target.
Avoid misunderstandings during negotiations and business meetings to quicker reach an agreement speeding up the international trade process.

You will be surprised to learn that we translators are not perfect. WHAAAT?

Yes, it’s true!

We sometimes make mistakes that prevent us from thriving and being content in our work. If you are a translator, this article may resonate with you, as it depicts four common mistakes often made by freelance professional translators.

The more I write the more it becomes painfully and abundantly clear that outside of language circles, the general population does not really understand much about the practical aspects of language or the differences between many of the titles bestowed upon various roles within the language community.

Many people have done no more with language than master (hopefully!) their own native tongue and perhaps taken a course in a secondary language while in school. But whether you’re a diehard language enthusiast or a newcomer to the language learning community there are certain terminologies that are important to bear in mind when discussing the multifaceted landscape of language and linguistic individuals.

I’ve written this piece to better explain to you the differences between translators, interpreters, linguists and polyglots – titles often used incorrectly to describe members of our community.

With emojis going mainstream, London artist and publisher Joe Hale wants everyone to be fluent.
The Oxford Dictionaries this week named the emoji depicting a “face with tears of joy” as the Word of the Year. The emoticon is Mr. Hale’s medium, first displayed in his “Wonderland” poster, in which he translated Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” into roughly 26,000 symbols. But Mr. Hale, who studied literature and philosophy as an undergraduate, has developed a new type of emoji writing with his latest endeavor, the ABC Emoji Co. The idea sprang from the “Wonderland” project, said Mr. Hale, who works as an app developer and turns to emojis in his spare time. “Everybody would ask me about the posters: ‘Can I read emoji?’ And I would have to tell them, ‘Well, no, not exactly.’ Because to make emoji a language, I’d have to use all these complicated writing techniques. Those conversations led me to think how can I make a text which is just emojis, which you can read. The idea which I came up with was ABC Emoji Co. Take a story and in translating it into emoji, you replace every letter with an emoji instead.”