Machine translation keeps getting better. You might think that its development poses a threat to professional translators. I believe that translators of the Polish language have nothing to worry about:…
Sometimes, we are commissioned to translate Microsoft Powerpoint presentations. Usually, customers don’t realise that translating texts used in such a presentation may not be enough. Differences between particular languages come…
Is the process of translation creative or not? There is no obvious answer to this question. On the one hand, you could argue that translation is not creative since a…
Recently, I have been asked to translate the English word “potluck” into Polish. My response was that I do not know such word, which is basically true. The asker was…
Every professional translator is also a proofreader, as he or she must verify any text before sending it back to the customer. Such proofreading is quite demanding at the beginning,…
“You think you know but you have no idea…” I have been wondering this for a long time: what's the biggest pitfall of translators? The first and most obvious answer…