Translation – A Service Rather Than a Commodity

With the introduction and advancement of machine translation in today’s world, just about anyone can “translate” content. Both free options, like Google Translate, and more sophisticated, [...]

How Culture Influences Technical Translation

Earlier this year, my colleague, Ahmed Kamal, blogged about a translation mistake that went undiscovered for thirty years and ultimately cost a country hundreds of millions of dollars in [...]

The Necessary Beauty of Body Language

In September of 2016, I embarked on the Camino de Santiago – a pilgrimage through the hills and cities of Spain. I only had two weeks’ vacation, so I started in Ponferrada with plans to end in [...]