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How to Distribute a Large Trados Project Among Multiple Translators Without Using the Cloud
The Case Our Brazilian translation agency specializes in providing Portuguese and Spanish translations for multilingual agencies. A few weeks ago, we received a large English-to-Portuguese project from an agency in Massachusetts. It had hundreds of thousands of words spread across dozens of files, along with a reliable translation memory and glossary. The Trados analysis showed… Ver artigoMarcos Chiquetto
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What about handwriting 800 pages with a pen?
How was the translation activity in the first years of the computer era.Marcos Chiquetto
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What Is Light? Finally, a Simple Explanation.
What is light?Marcos Chiquetto
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The day a computer bug turned out to be a real bug
The history of the first computer.Marcos Chiquetto
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The unbearable feeling of not knowing a certain fact
The global computer cloud is an extension of our own brainMarcos Chiquetto
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The most effective way to win over new clients for your company is something you cannot do for yourself
The importante of word-of-mouth in the translation industry.Marcos Chiquetto
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The Various Types of Spanish and the Translation Industry
When taking a job targeting Spanish, the PM in a translation agency must be aware of the variants of that language.Marcos Chiquetto
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How a Latin American translation agency managed to stay alive in the hurricane of post-modernity
The evolution of the translation industry over the last decades from the perspective of a small Latin American translation company.Marcos Chiquetto
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Did the ability to lie boost the evolution of the human race?
An untold-of discussion about language.Marcos Chiquetto
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Will someone read your letters 3500 years from now?
A discussion about the lifetime of computer-stored information.Marcos Chiquetto
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What are the oldest things we still use today?
When we use simple words to identify objects, we can be dealing with thousand-years-old objects. A little respect is advisable.Marcos Chiquetto
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Is the Humanity Getting Worse with Computers?
What is the influence of computers on the way we think?Marcos Chiquetto
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How to guarantee the quality of translations in Life Sciences
A general view of the problems involved in translating Life Sciences stuff and the possible solutions for them.Marcos Chiquetto
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Eight Hamlets of Translation: Training AI for School Tests
There is a new kind of work available for translators: AI trainingMarcos Chiquetto
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Agribusiness Translation: Why Is It So Challenging?
Translating agribusiness material is no trivial taskMarcos Chiquetto
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The prehistory of the Internet: When computers talked on the phone
How the translation industry was able to manage data transmission in the pre-internet era.Marcos Chiquetto
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How do you know the date of Carnival?
Why Carnival can be in March or February? What is Carnival after all?Marcos Chiquetto
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Officially you sell to companies. Actually you sell to people.
This article deals with the most important concept in the current maketing theory: the importance of building a strong relationship with the client, specially with the people you work with. A real example in the translation industry provides the basis for the discussion.Marcos Chiquetto
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How to lower your own prices in just 50 minutes. And be happy about it!
What is a reverse auction from inside.Marcos Chiquetto
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Computer-based Assistance for the Translator: QA Tools
What are QA tools? An example of use.Marcos Chiquetto
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The Third Kind of Client
Communication agencies are an important segment of the translation industryMarcos Chiquetto
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Brazilian oil industry and the translation industry
The Brazilian oil industry drives a strong demand for translation servicesMarcos Chiquetto
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Brazilian agribusiness and the translation industry
The surprising translation demands from the agribusinessMarcos Chiquetto
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Alphabet soup. What is SSD?
Anybody who is up-to-date on notebooks understands this phrase. But, what do these letters stand for? What do they mean?Marcos Chiquetto
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Computer-based Assistance for the Translator: Translation Memory
A quick explanation of what translation memory is.Marcos Chiquetto
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Computer-based Assistance for the Translator: Machine Translation
A discussion of the current status of Machine Translation, based on practical examples.Marcos Chiquetto
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PDF Files and the Translation Industry
A brief explanation of what a PDF is, why it was created, and the problem of taking a translation job to be done from an original in PDF.Marcos Chiquetto
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Transcreation? What is it?
An introductory view of what Transcreation is.Marcos Chiquetto
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The night that checking a clock could have saved the lives of 2 thousand Englishmen
A brief history of the mechanical clock.Marcos Chiquetto
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Why we use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to cut and paste
Why Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V are the cut/paste hot keys?Marcos Chiquetto
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The QWERTY Problem
A good solutions for a technological problem today can be a serious problem tomorrowMarcos Chiquetto
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Your car is already powered by solar energy
Where the energy we use comes from?Marcos Chiquetto
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The most unbelievable coincidence in the visible universe
Have you ever realized the Sun and the Moon have the same diameter from our point of view?Marcos Chiquetto
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Geostationary Satellites
How come satellite antennas are fixed while the corresponding satellites are in constant movement?Marcos Chiquetto
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I bought a 500GB SSD. What does that mean exactly? Finally a full explanation.
What exactly a Gigabyte means?Marcos Chiquetto
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Beware of Irony
The dangers of being ironic in written language.Marcos Chiquetto
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Localizing the Client´s Website Using the Client´s Strongest Resource
How we were able to leverage the high skills of our client in software tools to lower their translation costs.Marcos Chiquetto
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Knowing How to do the Work is Necessary. But it’s not Enough.
This article discusses the difficulty for an agency to build a reliable team of translators.Marcos Chiquetto
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Have you Received a Client Feedback? Great Opportunity to Increase the Customer Value
Nobody likes to receive a negative feedback to a translation job. However, this is a crucial opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client and increase future profits. This article depicts how to deal with this situation.Marcos Chiquetto
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Simultaneous Interpretation during Quarantine (published in March 2021)
A quick view of what the service of live interpretation is and the challenges posed to these professionals during the Covid pandemic.Renata Hetmanek
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But, couldn’t it be done without the rush?
Almost all translation jobs today involve some kind of urgent requires. Is that something inevitable? The article answers: yes.Marcos Chiquetto
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The Service you don’t see
This article shows that a good translation is a text that does not seem to be a translation.Marcos Chiquetto
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The post-modern Babel
This article is a good start for someone who is entering the translation industry. Why did translation become such a strong industry over the last few decades? Where translation fits in the current global economy? What are the demands of the market?Marcos Chiquetto
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How to guarantee the quality of translations in Life Sciences
A general view of the problems involved in translating Life Sciences stuff and the possible solutions for them.Marcos Chiquetto
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The (fatal) mistake you should avoid when translating marketing brochures
This article discusses the problem of accepting a translation job involving marketing brochures in PDF, showing that the best practice is to be assertive with the client so they get the source files. The use of translation memory is also mentioned.Marcos Chiquetto
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Why Translation Agencies Need Technology
An introductory view of the software tools used in a translation agency, including the translation memory tool, the machine translation engine and the QA tools.Marcos Chiquetto
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Walking Hand in Hand with a Giant
The long term relationship between our company and HP.Marcos Chiquetto
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Technology Reducing Costs and Times
How we were able to streamline the translation process in a Brazilian technology company.Marcos Chiquetto
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What is Behind a Simple Software Update
A quick view of the global chain of service providers that forms the translation industry. What happens when a small update is made to an original software in English, requiring that the corresponding update be made in various languages across the world.Marcos Chiquetto
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Your client in another country only sees a translated version of your marketing material. Uncomfortable, isn’t it?
This article addresses the problems that arise when marketing stuff developed in a certain country is used in another country, in a different language.Marcos Chiquetto
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The Translator who Couldn´t Translate Tragedy and Comedy
The problem of overcoming cultural differences when translating a text, discussed by Jorge Luis Borges.Francisco Zaragoza Zaldívar