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Freelancing and Translation
That’s what I’ll be writing about. I’m a freelance translator. I’ve been in the business for over 10 years. I think that’s marketing speak for, “11 years”. I love what I do. My mother tongue is Hebrew....
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Pronunciation Woes
LanguageHat links to a Wikipedia list of names with non-intuitive pronunciation. Having embarassed myself in the past with transliterating Ree-ding for the city of Reading, and Edin-boorg for...
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Context Is Everything
In Hebrew, there are two words than can be used for “scenario”. One doubles as “screenplay” (tasrit תסריט). The other is just “scenario”, Tarxish (תרחיש). I’m guessing “Hot”, the local cable company...
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Tools I Can’t Work Without
Back in 1996, when I started studying translation, I remember asking a friend whether she thought purchasing a computer is an absolute must. Well, I’ve come a long way. By now I have my own computer...
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Amarcord
My grandmother was born in Corfu. My grandfather in Turkey. They met in Alexandria, Egypt, and got married. They spoke French, Italian and Ladino. My grandmother also spoke Greek, and they knew a...
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Hug A Translator!
Today is the International Translation Day. You can read about this year’s theme here. Interesting translation related materials for this occasion: Getting It Right - A Guide to Buying Translations....
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The cheapest family in America
I just read about them in today’s newspaper. Weird people are nothing new, the cool thing is their family name: Economides.
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Hebrew speakers in the Vatican?
When translating internet sites/forms into Hebrew, I’m always required to translate the list of countries in the world, and it always makes me wonder about those Hebrew speakers in Bahrain. Or Burkina...
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Cultural Differences
I recently translated a press release about a new cellular phone, and one of its selling lines surprised me as it was totally irrelevant to the Israeli, Hebrew speaking audience. It said the device is...
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