Tag Archives: machine translation

The difference between TM and MT

Posted 190 days ago by John Gray

What is the difference between Machine Translation and Translation Memory? There seems to be some confusion about what, precisely, distinguishes Machine Translation from Translation Memory. This may be the result of the similarity of their acronyms in English – MT …

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Coming soon: eBooks!

Posted 218 days ago by John Gray

By way of a trailer for an upcoming blog post on eBooks and translation, I wanted to share a couple of quotes I found in the course of researching it. The first is Borges: “De todos los instrumentos del hombre, …

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The Daily Telegraph in Cockney

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I have just discovered a strange, subversive sub-genre of internet translation engines, all of which allow you to translate from ‘standard’ English into a range of different accents or dialects. If you have something important you should be doing, I …

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The perils of machine translation

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Fine. Google Translate isn’t that great when it comes to seventeenth century Spanish literature. But could it be more useful in the world of business? Apparently not. To take just one example, the Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica’s homepage has the …

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Don Quixote and Google Translate

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Here is the opening sentence of Cervantes’ Don Quixote: ‘En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no hace mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y …

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