For the more subjective types of translation services, cultural appropriateness becomes absolutely critical. The fundamental tenets of a nuanced translation take into consideration multiple aspects: For content that’s more subjective, it’s the fine distinctions and…
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Standards of a Good Translation
What makes a great translation? Obviously, opinions differ from country to country, with cultural factors coming into play. However, there are key elements on which most people agree. Understanding the Audience: Translating novel is a…
Top qualities of a good translation
Every client wants a good translation of their content; only a few know what are the top qualities of a good translation. We will briefly discuss a few today, and in details in next posts. Here are…
Avoiding overtranslation
When translating between languages and cultures as different as Chinese and English, the problem is the inadequacy of the target language to express the source. Chinese, with its incredible succinctness, can often express in a…
Lost in Translation: Why Human Touch Matters in Document Translation
In today’s hyper-connected world, machine translation tools like Google Translate seem like magic wands bridging language barriers. But for truly important documents, relying solely on these digital oracles can be a risky gamble. While machine…
Challenges of Translation
Language Structure: every language sits inside a defined structure with its own agreed upon rules. The complexity and singularity of this framework directly correlates to the difficulty of translation. A simple sentence in English has…
The Story of A Child Bride
[RWET] Final: The power of polar opposite
As I was working on my thesis, I researched on the subject of Child Bride and learned that Poverty and Gender Ineqality are two of the primary reasons that this practice still persists across cultures…
[RWET]HW4 Python functions
Functions and modules are a bit complicated than expected. Going through the class video I realized I missed some details in Allison’s lecture. While it already took some time to understand some of the concepts,…
[RWET] HW3 Appropriating text from the network
As usual, I ran a few practice runs based on class note, and I tried the word “desire” on wordnik under definition. Here is the result to print text and PartofSpeech: And I played with…