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The little I know so far

Despite the fact it takes a lot of work and the desired results can be slow in coming and difficult to measure, I like blogging. It’s a great exercise for those of us who have lots of thoughts and opinions we never took the time to jot down.
And since [...]

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Machine translation “gisting”

Gisting is the term applied in the translation industry to the output of certain Machine Translation (MT) programs — whether free on the internet or proprietary — that give a rough idea of the meaning of a text in a foreign language.
The merits of various MT programs or MT in general have [...]

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New to blogs. Old to translation. I’ve been a translator, a translation project manager, a manager of project managers. At parties, I say I’m a translator. It has more cachet than manager somehow. Now an owner of a translation agency, I’m hoping to share some thoughts on getting words out of one language, into another, [...]

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