I don’t know when you, dear reader are reading this but at the time I write this holidays were only a few weeks ago. What we can define as holidays by itself is an interesting question when translating a flyer or even some a literary text because it means wildly different things in different contexts…
When I first started writing Talking-Translation I did not have a plan nor a schedule set up. My idea was simple, through practice and lectures at university I had become aware of a lot of things that go into translation, many of which I could never have imagined before I started my degree and I…
You know, there was a reason I picked Cars as my first ever deep dive and that reason has nothing to do with the fact that this was a game which I have never completed and so look at with fond eyes since I mostly drove around as a kid, nor does it have to…
I’ve mentioned before that localization is a process that, when it comes to videogames tended to skip Portugal, which at best got the Brazilian Portuguese variant and, at worst was stuck with a menu that had Spanish and English as the only ones you could select. What language came packaged with the Portuguese version is…
Being on a budget is hard. It’s a statement that I don’t think will prove to be controversial by itself and one that I feel a lot of people can relate to. Having ten, twenty or perhaps even thirty dollars and having to manage it so they last me the week or longer is something…
If there’s one thing that has become part of international pop culture through the simple fact that it has been airing for more than 30 years then the Simpsons is definitively it. It’s not a statement that I feel will be controversial, the characters of Homer, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Marge and so many others have…
I was hospitalised recently. Before anyone worries too much about the fact let me assure everyone that I am fine, or at the least on the path to recovery; no this post doesn’t have the goal of gathering your pity and words wishing me well but rather it has a much different purpose. Waiting 9…
Because I quite clearly do not like myself enough, I decided to approach a topic that is sure not to be controversial: religion! Whether someone has one, and chooses to try and spread it, whether someone is in doubt, or they do not believe organized religion religion itself remains a thorny topic that will very…
There is a popular idea in Translation Theory, one pretty much accepted as a given that a translation both takes and gives to the original. It is a thing first year Translation degree students often haven’t thought about, used as they are to the idea that translation is an act of compromise – an act…
You would not think so, given how much the gender question factors into my day to day life but there is perhaps no place where it’s more pervasive than in my work as a professional translator. Gender, and more specifically how to work with it so as to best make a translation accurate and correct (though,…
