Here’s some background for those who haven’t read or listened to the two previous posts: I started tackling the relevance of dialects in my field, and then Fabio M. Said kindly contributed with his views on the differences among the Portuguese language variants. I believe discussing the results of an experiment I did in this [...]
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A quick experiment with dialects
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[Resources] Mistakes to avoid
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Levent Yildizgoren at a translators’ powwow in Toronto, and I was glad to learn about a brochure he has written to provide clients with strategies to avoid common mistakes in translation projects. The topics included in his publication are in perfect harmony with the material you find in [...]