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Dive in the social conversation with hashtags!
It’s time to pay thought to hashtags if you’ve been neglecting them as some quirky “twitter language.” Hashtags are now on every social media platform and. I’m going to cut down the hashtag into the normal language in concerns that beginners will be able to understand the value in using hashtags on social conversation sites.
Translation myths III – interpreters and translators
We started talking about myths that are being spread about the language service industry, especially translations and interpreting. Most of them include translators and interpreters, their styles and value of their work.
Translation myths II – machine translation
It is the turn for the myths regarding alternative translation methods, mostly machine translation (MT) and crowd sourcing. Will professional translators be replaced by machines?
Translation myths – market too small?
The translation myths are exactly that: myths. There have been no strong arguments to sustain those myths, on contrary there are more reasons to believe the opposite.
No recession for the translation industry trends
The recession has had a devastating effect on some businesses but it has merely affected others, like shown by the translation industry trends. Business professionals state that Translation businesses are recession proof. Figures put it among the tens of billions of dollars a year industries and the value increases every year.
Cheap localization services: adapt your message to each market
Localization and translation services are not the same thing. While translation focuses on meaning, grammar and spelling accuracy, localization means adapting details to fit culture and habits of the specific market.
When creativity meets translation – transcreation services
Creativity plays a crucial role in adapting a text to another language. Every high quality translation requires accuracy as well as knowledge of the cultural background. Yet, sometimes this is not enough to convey the linguistic nuances or the emotion that the source text evoked. That is when transcreation services come in.