HOW FAR CAN YOU GO WITH JUST A BILINGUAL DICTIONARY? This is another of my translation exercises I am only…

FUN WITH BAD TRANSLATIONS – A GAME In my experience, it’s quite common for professional translators, like me, to state…

NOT TO BRAG… I want debate about what I – and others in my position, for that matter – do…

A TRANSLATION CHALLENGE I SET MYSELF (6,000 WORDS BLOG) Foreword: not too long before I went ahead and posted this,…

CONTRIVED TRANSLATIONS OF IMPROPER ENGLISH What is this? It’s a blog in which I provide my own equivalents of certain…

PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR MUSIC VIDEO LYRICS – FRENCH AND GERMAN I wrote these French and German rhyming translations of the lyrics…

APPARENT NONSENSE PUT INTO CONTEXT Further to my last comment, I have decided to provide an example of me putting…

TO ALL PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATORS: GET A SENSE OF CONTEXT When you do what I do for a living – professional…

TRANSLATION – HERE I PROVIDE AN EXAMPLE OF TAKING ON A NON-TYPICAL LANGUAGE-RELATED CHALLENGE When you translate, it’s only too…

MORE LYRICAL TRANSLATION – NOW I HAVE A GO AT HAIKU In my career as a professional translator I have…

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