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It’s hard to believe I’ve already written sixteen tips to help clients and other readers improve their Korean translations. Anyway, here are the last eight tips in one place: Why I'll Never Be Able to Translate to English All the Implied Respect in a Korean Document What It Means...
When doing Korean-language layout on English-to-Korean translation [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: http://uz9.25e.myftpupload.com/english-to-korean-translation/] projects, there are two cardinal rules to follow. (Mostly) like Japanese and Chinese, each Korean character is a syllable. But unlike Japanese and Chinese, Korean is made up of words separated by spaces. When left/right-justifying the text, it’s OK...
About Korean search-and-replace Nobody uses the search-and-replace function in Word more often than translators. Search-and-replace in Korean is a common task in the Korean translation workflow. When I’m working on a Korean-to-English translation [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: http://uz9.25e.myftpupload.com/korean-to-english-translation/] project, I’ll get started using a certain term and later, with more context, decide...
It didn't take me long to find a translation error in the Korean version of Windows 8… In this case, I was clicking around in the interface and pulled up the Camera app on screen. Because there's no camera connected to the computer, the message is supposed to be instructing...
I just purchased memoQ translator pro which I am hoping will be a replacement for SDL Trados 2007, which I've been using for way too long. This is my certificate for the beginner course… As far as I know, the beginner course is the only one they currently offer as...
Translation is a fascinating topic, isn’t it? I particularly find it interesting in my work as a Korean translator [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://uz9.25e.myftpupload.com/korean-translator/] to consider those points at which languages don’t connect perfectly and the adjustments we have to make for them. This is a quick tip about dashes and...
I already pointed out a translation error in the Korean version of Windows 7 a few months ago. Here’s one more… and it’s a disgrace! I mean, how long has Windows 7 been on the market? Are you telling me that for over three years, nobody has told Microsoft that...
Today’s tip is about acronyms, which can cause trouble on Korean translation [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: http://uz9.25e.myftpupload.com/] work. Here’s an example of an English acronyms on a Korean-to-English translation [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: http://uz9.25e.myftpupload.com/korean-to-english-translation/] job. I was editing an English translation of a Korean academic paper [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: http://uz9.25e.myftpupload.com/korean-academic-scientific-document-translation/] about intellectual...
In a previous post, I discussed plurals in Korean. The word “plural” is associated with a group and a group is how Koreans view themselves. In fact, one of the top banks in Korea (where I keep my money, in fact) calls itself “Woori Bank [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://eng.wooribank.com/]”, meaning “Our...
I’ll occasionally get a message like this from a Korean translation [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: http://uz9.25e.myftpupload.com/]client who wants me to change a singular Korean noun to a plural form: “Steven, the client just made the following change in the English. Can you update it in the Korean? Old version: “We’ll be sending...
