Languages

Translation vs. Transcreation

by Matthew Stibbe on November 30, 2009

In this final guest post, Christian Arno from Lingo24 explains the difference between translation and transcreation. It’s an important distinction. Translators should only ever translate into their mother tongue, regardless of how fluent they are in another language. This ensures that the linguistic nuances of their native language are respected. Furthermore, many linguists have qualifications [...]

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Found in translation

by Matthew Stibbe on November 27, 2009

In this second guest post, Lingo24’s founder Christian Arno talks about the joy of words and the hidden linguistic pitfalls that translators must avoid. Linguistic diversity As all translators will know, it takes a considerable amount of time and effort to learn a second language. But with genetically-related languages such as Romance, there is often [...]

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