Tag Archives: Formatting

What makes a language service provider outstanding?

Posted 69 days ago by John Gray

The key differentiator between language service providers (LSPs) is the value they add to the translation process. At one end of the scale, you have the classic ‘broker’, which outsources projects to freelancers at exploitative prices, and then forwards the …

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Translation & DTP: two sides of the same coin

Posted 80 days ago by John Gray

Thinking of translation and desktop publishing (DTP) as two sides of the same coin is the most cost-effective approach to ensuring high-quality multilingual documentation. As part of our pioneering, integrated approach, QuickSilver assumes control of the actual layout of the …

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Translating Chinese

Posted 252 days ago by John Gray

Historically, Chinese was written either vertically, from top to bottom and right to left, or horizontally, from right to left, but for many years now the official standard has been horizontally from left to right. Many newspapers, however, often combine …

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Dates: what’s the right format

Posted 1448 days ago by Colin Whiteley

America write dates as mm/dd/yy. Europe writes them as dd/mm/yy. East Asia uses yy/mm/dd. This gives rise to all sorts of confusion. It was bad enough in the late 20th century, where it was easy to confuse months and days …

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Numbers: Should translators get them right?

Posted 1452 days ago by Colin Whiteley

There is an unwritten consensus in the business translation community that you should, wherever possible, “improve” the original when it is unclear or inconsistent. (You can argue that you have some responsibility for pointing out factual errors too, if you happen …

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