Finding an acronym in a text is always a cause for doubt for translators. If you offer translation services, the following information might be of interest to if you wish for your texts to comply, to the fullest extent, with the current standards in this regard. Always keep these standards in mind so it’s easier for you to correctly translate the acronyms that you might come across in your work. Should acronyms be translated? They should, but only if they …
Month: March 2020
Why back translations are so useful and their use in professional translations. Back translation can be defined as the translation of a document that has already been translated back to its original language. For example, let’s remember our time as high school students in Spanish class. First, we translated a sentence into Spanish, and then we translated it back into our native language, English, to check and see if the meaning was correct. And so, the purpose of this back …
Vernacular refers to the language of a given place. In the science of translation, it is important to know the history of the source language to make it easier for you to grasp the true meaning of the text. We’ll go over this in the next section. The History of Vernacular Languages These types of languages are always the result of the union of the different civilizations that passed through a particular region before the formation of the language proper. …
If you plan to offer translation services in the future, you should know that there will be several words you won’t be able to translate. In this article, we’ll explain why, and we’ll offer some practical examples to make it easier for you to identify these words. What are untranslatable words? These are mainly words that have no equivalent in other languages due to their specificity. It can be a pun, the use of a term with a completely different …