Lets get one thing clear
LET’S GET ONE THING CLEAR! As someone who has studied French and German at degree level and who now makes…
Audacious Marketing
MY MOST AUDACIOUS MARKETING MOVE IV I like Rammstein, the German music band, and they’re popular enough not just in…
Lets talk real translation
LET’S TALK ABOUT REAL TRANSLATION WORK (WITH THE HELP OF EXAMPLES) I saw this quote on the Financial Times website…
Prepared to wrestle ideas
PART OF THE PURSUIT OF GREAT TRANSLATION IS AGREEING TO BE PREPARED TO WRESTLE WITH IDEAS THAT ARE JUST NOT…
Time to be taken seriously
HERE I DISCUSS WHAT I REALLY MEAN IN MY CLAIM THAT I WANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AS A SELF-EMPLOYED…
My desire for power in translation
THE PROSPECT OF ME WRITING A TRANSLATION TREATISE AND MY DESIRE FOR MORE POWER IN MY JOB Well, I recently…
Translation the context game
TRANSLATION: THE CONTEXT GAME Foreword: “context” is a thoroughly abstract concept, I agree. But linguistic context and subject matter context…
Enforcing correct translations
DOING WHAT I CAN TO ENFORCE THE CORRECTNESS OF MY TRANSLATION WORK As a professional translator, I long ago got…
How do I know
HOW DO I KNOW… Dealing with the limitations of translation work capability / options is not necessarily easy or straightforward…
A point on self promotion
A QUICK RAMBLE ON A POINT ON LANGUAGE FOR THE SAKE OF SELF-PROMOTION The well-known mistake of writing “your” when…