Modern times need modern solutions. And as our business changed and grew over the years, we started to feel that our in-house translation project management system could do with some streamlining to meet the demands of our fast-paced work. We needed a system to help...
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Happy Holidays And A Wonderful New Year!
We hope you can all get some well-deserved rest over the end-of-the-year festive period, and can start 2022 with your batteries fully charged! Our team will be taking a short break at the end of this month, so please note that our offices will be closed between 24th...
Are you digging it?
I really give his pike, the pure fain, but the guy has been fluttering so much lately on Instan, he's really printing himself. All right, now I’m stepping, pick axe! No… we didn’t go mad, we just used machine translation for translating a couple of slang-laden...
Summer time is smoothie time!
Although we are not as spoiled for good weather here in the UK as some of us would prefer, we still get our fair share of summery weather, too. And when it’s boiling outside and we can hardly concentrate on our screen, there is nothing better than a cold, refreshing,...
Post-editing machine translation with a human touch
Nowadays machine translation is all the rage in the localisation industry. It has been for a while now; we actually first wrote about it back in 2011 - to warn people against its use! Then the subject matter has popped up from time to time on our blog, and as machines...
E-commerce Essentials
What do you need for a successful e-commerce site? According to some recent estimates, the number of online shoppers will rise to 2.05 billion by the end of 2020. (That is one quarter of the whole planet’s population!) This number has been on a steady upward climb in...
Language of the Month – October is HUNGARIAN!
In our new series this year, Language of the Month, we are looking at twelve of the world’s nearly 6000 fascinating languages, one each month. Join us on this trip around the globe and discover facts, trivia and insider information about some awesome languages! FACT...
Tanabata, a Japanese festival of love and wishes
Tonight, as the stars shine bright above us in the dark sky, two forlorn lovers, Orihime and Hikoboshi shall finally meet again. They can only be together once a year – on the seventh night of the seventh month – as Orihime’s father, the King of the Skies himself,...
The most economical language – Musings about Bulgarian, information rate and Marcel Duchamp
A couple of days ago I had an interesting conversation with Svetlana, from our sister company Cintra, about her mother tongue, Bulgarian. As it turns out it is rather economical. For example, the consonant cluster “sht” often appears in various words, so Bulgarians...
WE HAVE MOVED!
As you might have seen on our Facebook page and Twitter, we have recently moved offices! You can now find us at 8 Wellington Mews, Wellington Street, Cambridge, CB1 1HW, together in the same building with our sister company, Cintra. Cintra specialises in providing...
