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The Case of the Translations that Reek of Butter

November 30, 2011 -By: -In: Translation - Comments Off on The Case of the Translations that Reek of Butter

“Wash hands before meeting with customers” is the sign next to the sink in the 1-800-Translate men’s room, just like in the scrub rooms of some of our big hospital clients.  Translation, like medicine, requires thorough preparation and meticulous attention to detail. When I make my rounds I wish I could wear a white lab […]

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1Q84 is Big in Literary Translation

November 11, 2011 -By: -In: Translation - Comments Off on 1Q84 is Big in Literary Translation

Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, IQ84, is a big read. One thousand pages of the most hotly anticipated translation into English of any novel this year, maybe of the century so far, maybe ever. Winner of the Frank Kafka Prize, Murakami’s surreal stories of the bizarre everyday have garnered him millions of global fans in 46 […]

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The Best Online Machine Translation

November 2, 2011 -By: -In: Machine Translation - 18 comments

The word-witch-doctors over at Bab.la have cooked up a big machine translation showdown to test which is the best — Prompt, Systrans, Google or Bing. The challenge: 500 sentences in 10 languages per pair, English to French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, two-way. Not back translated, but different translations going in either direction. Results were scored […]

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