Tag: humour

• November 22, 2016

  Why not just use Google Translate?

  

  A few days ago, I was discussing my work as a translator with a friend of mine. After going through the general details of what I do, he asked: “So, why don’t your clients just use Google Translate?” It’s a question that I’m sure many translators have faced before, and I doubt it will be […]
• April 20, 2015

  The Joys of Working From Home

  Earlier today, during a spontaneous mid-morning break from my work, I found myself questioning whether or not, after several years of working almost exclusively from home as a freelance translator and researcher, I could go back to working in the ‘real world’ of offices, 9-5 and all that jazz. While the obvious answer is yes, of […]
• May 2, 2013

  Gather ’round for a story: the Haitian folktale

  First of all: apologies for the lack of posts in the last couple of weeks, it’s been a busy period for me. As it is, I’m still snowed under and so this post is just a relatively quick entry based on an interesting translation project I completed a while back. The text was a French […]