Category Archives: Unethical conduct

Debatable dictionary practices

Recently Merriam-Webster came under pressure from an online campaign to change one of the example sentences in their online dictionary of English. After a short period of time the dictionary editors caved in and suppressed the disputed example (as reported … Continue reading

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La nueva directiva de la UE sobre los derechos de autor

No te puede haber pasado por alto que el pasado mes de marzo, en el Parlamento Europeo, y el pasado mes de abril, en el Consejo Europeo, se aprobó una nueva Directiva sobre los derechos de autor en la Unión … Continue reading

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International grievances

A whole host of things can go wrong in a translation project. Translators accept that occasional mistakes are hard to avoid and hope they go undetected. After all, if nobody notices, who is to say that a mistake has been … Continue reading

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Imagen ganadora del concurso de traducción #TranslatorWanted

El pasado mes de junio celebramos el concurso sobre traducción #TranslatorWanted para reivindicar la figura del traductor. Es una iniciativa impulsada por el grado de Traducción, Interpretación y Lenguas Aplicadas (UOC, UVic-UCC). Este concurso consistía en capturar con una fotografía … Continue reading

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Subtitling or dubbing?

It is a commonplace to say that dubbing foreign language films and series on television in Spain is one of the brakes on foreign language learning among the population in general. Not for the first time the People’s Party in … Continue reading

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