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Category: translation

Threat to Portuguese wine exports

translation viticulture10 April 201910 April 2019

Higher US customs duties on Portuguese wines could have a significant impact on the sector.

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Zen-style sanity

translation translators6 January 20196 January 2019

It is strange to think that this was my first “translation blog”, written two years before I ever went to a translation conference.

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A língua como ferramenta de trabalho

translation28 November 201828 November 2018

Uma apresentação com anotações descarregável visada aos recém-iniciados na área da tradução.

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Girona m’ha conquistat

revision translation viticulture26 October 20181 November 2018

METM18 and the state of the art and science of editing & translation against a spectacular backdrop of history intertwined with cultural interest: Girona captured my heart.

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Revision and the Quality Crate

revision translation12 August 20186 May 2019

Subjectivity has its place in the revision spectrum, in that one has to employ judgement and discernment to keep that creature we call Quality alive. As an echo of that famous line in the film Calendar Girls, I think we need a bigger Crate.

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Portfolio

revision translation19 June 20185 July 2018

In an effort to document my signed translation and editing work done for clients and published either in print or online, I have detailed it under the Portfolio tab on my personal blog.

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Miguel Torga on translators

translation4 June 20184 June 2018

I first translated this quotation from Miguel Torga (1907-1955, an important twentieth-century Portuguese writer and poet) about three and a half years ago. I mistranslated the last sentence. Here is the re-hash. Aside from the corrected last sentence, I made a couple of other stylistic changes. Traduzir é, primordialmente, um acto de amor. Só quem […]

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Comma removal

translation2 June 2018

It is called constantly honing one’s craft – an obligation which translators have to themselves and to their readers.

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Translating the Vine Atlas

translation viticulture26 May 201828 November 2018

Preamble Re-hashes of older blog posts and various guest posts I have written will appear here with a #flashbackfriday tag from now on. The first flashback post, Passionate about getting things right, appeared here last week. I cannot promise I will always publish on a Friday, but the fricative-heavy hashtag will serve to indicate that […]

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