A question of style

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by Lingo24, 3rd July, 2006

It’s all a question of style


It’s all a question of style. You need only cast your eye over the array of publications available on a newsstand to realise that there must be an audience for them, or a perceived audience at least. Are all of these newspapers and magazines ‘saying the same thing’ …?

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Why a UK translation company set up business in Romania

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by Christian Arno, 9th June, 2006

Why a UK translation company set up business in Romania


Lingo24 was at something of a crossroads in January, 2005. It had established itself as a provider of translation services to many international companies and had operations in three countries: the UK, New Zealand, and China.

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Linguistic and Cultural Issues in Literary Translation

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by Mohammed Albakry, Northern Arizona University, 2nd June, 2005

The article is a discussion of a case study of translating a short story (“The Nests”, by M. Zefzaf) from Arabic into English. The discussion revolves around the translation process and its reconstruction focusing on some of the linguistic and cultural issues encountered in the original and how they were resolved in the translation.

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Dictionaries and their Eccentricities

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by Verónica Albin, 11th November, 2004

Verónica Albin delves into the development of dictionaries through the centuries, discovers some very amusing definitions along the way.

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The best formula for translation agencies

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by Lingo24, 15th October, 2007

It is of vital import for an agency to know whether its interests are best served by retaining a core of full time translators or whether to rely on freelancers.

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Babel Not: Machine Translation for the Technical Communicator

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by Sandra Bologna, 23rd February, 2006

According to Sandra Bologna, a translation project manager with WTB Language Group, Machine Translation, though useful in certain cases, is still not, and may never be the one-size-fits-all solution for translation needs.

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Getting the Original Right

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by Geoffrey Kingscott, 21st October, 2004

Geoffrey Kingscott describes the relationship of technical writing and translation - and makes a case for a good source text

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Revision - Food for Thought

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by Nick Somers, 21st October, 2004

Nick Somers explains his views on the importance of proof-reading

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Challenges in translating for International Market Research campaigns

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by Lingo24, 3rd July, 2006

This article is meant as a guide to some of the specific challenges in the area of International Market Research campaigns, and present ways in which professional translation companies can help overcome them.


Are you an Online Panel Manager, Research manager, Service Delivery Director or perhaps an Account Manager within a Market Research company? Do you work with groups spread across multiple markets in Europe, The Middle East and Asia? This article is for you!

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Pitfalls in Legal Translation

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by Davide De Leo, 16th November, 2004

Davide De Leo examines the considerable difficulties faced by legal translators owing to the non-equivalence of basic terminology within the legal systems of different countries.

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