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Suppose you’re managing a project involving a language pair outside of your expertise – for instance, English to Arabic. In this example, the translated document is returned with formatting elements missing. The translator was supposed to underline the Arabic word for “headache,” but didn’t do so. The translator is currently...
Hi, I hope this email finds you well. Back in January, I shared with you about the AI-powered technique in ChatGPT that can translate fuzzy matches with ease. I’m thrilled to announce that the response to that email was overwhelming, with the highest clickthrough rate I’ve seen in years. A lot...
Greetings in 2023! Most commentators on GPT-3 (aka ChatGPT) seem fixated on how the GPT-3 model can help writers quickly create lots of new content. But as a translator, I spend my days transforming content, not creating more of it. So I’m interested in other use cases. Stanislav Okhvet (the...
This tip is about three Korean punctuation marks you won’t see in our translations. (For past tips on other Korean punctuation, see #3, #14, #19, #33.) 1. Half-brackets: 「 」 (Hexadecimal codes: 300C and 300D)Korean doesn’t have capital letters (see tip #24), and so Korean writers use other techniques to...
Today's tip comes straight out of three recent projects I worked on and shows that a Korean translation into English (or vice-versa) could mean translating a "1" as a "3" or a "9" as a "1"… Here's why… 1. Call 911!…. I mean, call 119! If you call 911 in...
I’m occasionally asked if Korean has an alphabetical order. Yes, it does! There are officially 24 letters in the Korean alphabet, but here are the 14 used to separate a printed Korean dictionary into sections. ㄱ ㄴ ㄷ ㄹ ㅁ ㅂ ㅅ ㅇ ㅈ ㅊ ㅋ ㅌ ㅍ ㅎ The...
There are two styles of technical Korean writing and these are primarily expressed in sentence endings. In terms of the language as a whole, this is a simplification, since there are any number of local dialects that complicate things, written endings that can also be used in spoken language to...
We were in San Antonio recently dropping Treasure off at university and while we were there, we met a friend of Myunghee's. After dinner, Myunghee's friend posted this photo on Facebook. An old friend of Myunghee's in Korea saw the photo and added the following comment in Korean. The comment...
Around 60-70% of the Korean vocabulary is derived from Chinese. Long ago, Korean was even written using only the Chinese script. However, the Korean writing system (called “hangul” in Korean) has become the standard in today’s world, even though Chinese characters (called “hanja” in Korean) still make frequent appearances in...
It’s been several months since my last Korean translation tip because, well, I’ve been busy translating… and have also spent this time working hard to improve my skills and credentials. I’m proud to say that this effort has resulted in an upgraded resume. Ta-da! – You can download it here. [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: /files/160707_Resume_Steven_S_Bammel_Certified_Korean-to-English_Translator_Intl_Commerce_and_Finance.pdf] I’m...
