It’s not easy for an outsider to understand what takes time and what costs money in the translation business. Sometimes I get requests to translate very short texts that often have simply been copied and pasted straight into an email. “Could you just translated this?” It’s supposed to happen quickly and the sender seems to … [Read more…]
When I started this blog, I wrote that I was going to run it according to the pomodoro technique. That is to focus on one thing for a short period of time (corresponding to an egg timer in the shape of a tomato – pomodoro in Italian). It now seems obvious that I eat plenty … [Read more…]
If I told you that there is always a first time for everything, you’d start thinking about big, important things in life: the first unsteady steps, the first day in school, the first kiss. I already did those things, so here is the rather undramatic first blog entry. Things you do for the first … [Read more…]