Monthly Archives: April 2011

Announcing ProZ.com podcasts, and here’s the first edition

Good Friday, everyone! The April ProZ.com newsletter is on its way to your inbox, and I hope you find it interesting and informative. I’d like to take this opportunity to announce a new feature at ProZ.com, the ProZ.com podcast. These … Continue reading

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Take five!

Language professionals take breaks too (or, at least, they should!). This week the site opened an area called the Translator playground, for translators to have fun, to network, to learn, and to hone their translation or linguistic skills. The area … Continue reading

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New platform for outsourcing translation projects first made available to Translators Without Borders

A new and improved platform has been made available by ProZ.com for jobs posted by Translators Without Borders, an independent, non-profit association that since 1993 has been providing free, professional translations to humanitarian NGOs, enabling them to spend the saved … Continue reading

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Translation: “one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world”

A variety of well-known figures have weighed in on the art of translation. Borges said, “El original no es fiel a la traducción”  (“The original is unfaithful to the translation”). “Translation is the art of failure,” according to Umberto Eco.  … Continue reading

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Twitter for translators?

I dismissed the whole Twitter thing at the outset. I had been through MySpace, and was already getting tired in Facebook of reading about what everyone had eaten, or was going to eat, for dinner. So when people started talking about … Continue reading

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