History of the letter eñe
Most people associate the letter eñe with the Spanish language. Yet it is actually present in no less than nine different alphabets spanning the globe, including the modern Latin alphabet, Galician alphabet, Asturian alphabet, Filipino alphabet and Guarani alphabet, among others. Additionally, it is currently used to represent the [ŋ] in the Tartar and Crimean […]
Tools for translators: A powerful desktop search tool
Copernic Desktop Search is a software tool that makes it simple and easy to find anything on your PC. By indexing your hard drive and providing a user-friendly search interface, a person can instantly locate more than 150 file types, including images, multimedia and emails (it includes an optional web search engine.) If the user […]
Translating your website to promote your business
A business website is more than just a mode of offering information about your business, and it’s more than just marketing a product or service. Your website also communicates authority, or legitimacy, if you will. The internet is full of websites representing fly-by-night companies. Making sure that your site doesn’t seem like one of those […]
The Origin of the Word “Carnival”
The term Carnival (or Carnaval, in Spanish), has an etymology that can find little accord among those who explain its origins. Perhaps beginning with the question of whether the roots of the word date back to latin, and which terms they seem to derive from, several theories about the origin of Carnival persist, each with […]
The Origin of Hashtag
This week we’re starting a new blog series called “The Origin of …” In it, we’ll be discussing the origin of a new word each week, including it’s translations or adaptations in other languages. We begin the series with a word that has become widely recognized among Internet parlance in a short amount of time: […]
Managing Work Overload
Being confronted with too much work is not necessarily what every freelance translator fears when they branch out on their own. Not having enough work to make is usually higher up on the list of worries. But once you get going with your freelance business, it’s not uncommon to find yourself on the other extreme […]
