Financial Translation Blog

A dose of skepticism to guard against localization hype,
courtesy of Miguel Llorens, a Spanish-English financial translator

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Monday, August 13, 2012

What is Professional Translation?: The Quality of Smartling's Spanish Website

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all...

Thursday, August 9, 2012

‘Reach Down, God, Give Me a High Five’: Low Quality Translation and Low Quality SEO

This guy thought up Death Bed: The Bed That Eats People and f****ng finished it! That means one of two things happened. He either he neve...

Saturday, July 21, 2012

How to Keep the Debate on Translation Pricing From Going Full Retard

Kirk Lazarus: Everybody knows you never go full retard. Tugg Speedman: What do you mean? Kirk Lazarus: Check it out. Dustin Hoffman...

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Did You Hear That? Translation Prices Are Falling!

Is that cannon fire or is that my heart pounding? --Casablanca (1942) Is that the thunder of distant guns or is it the sound of tran...

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

The Localization Industry Doesn’t Get the Local Web

I heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. We are so constantly bombarded by the ideology that the “world has been flatte...

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