Tag: translate
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Translating ”The ugly duckling” with help from Google, Bing and a translator?!
Today many people use Google Translate or Bing Translator to quickly translate a sentence or similar if they want to know what the recipe says, what people write on Facebook or in other multilingual forums etc. – and for these purposes I agree that it’s a very useful, fast and cheap tool. You don’t send […]
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Localization: yes or no?
Translating cultural and humorous elements Back in 2007, when I worked on my final paper, I came across this question – whether to localize cultural and humorous elements in subtitles (in this case the Danish comedy “Flickering Lights”). It can be hard to decide, whether to localize a text or not – in some cases its advisable […]
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Right or Left?
In Denmark we usually say “we drive on the “right” side of the road” – here referring to the double meaning of the word “right” – to be right and the right hand side! After having lived/visited several countries with left-hand driving I started to wonder, why we don’t drive on the same side of the road […]
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Keeping one eye on the horizon and the other on the screen!
Saying “yes” to translating a book! The last couple of month have been very busy, which is the result of me accepting an offer to translate a book “Standing on the shoulders of giants” in 10 weeks (well knowing that I would be on holiday 2 of the weeks!). The offer came out of the […]
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