There's more to Australian and New Zealand English than adding mate or gidday to a sentence. Please, we're not cartoon characters after all. Using machine translation for these regions risks inserting the worst local stereotypes into your business-critical texts. See a real-life example of machine translation output below (United States => Australian English): I'll give you a hint, 'It's the sentence that ends with "mate"' Just another reason why you need a qualified human be

If I've learnt anything from my multiple Alexa devices, it's that technology's cool for some things but when you need reliable service,...

Blog post update - June 2022 Earlier on, I posted about how happy I was to be contacted by an agency about being added to the game's credits. But years later, websites with a list of game credits still don't mention me or any of the rest of the translation team. Odd, right? As a result, I can't tell you the name of the game I worked on because this information hasn't reached the public realm. It's still covered by my NDA (non-disclosure agreement). This is a situation many vi

Wishing my clients a very happy new year in 2023. May it bring you health and happiness!

Just when I was beginning to give up hope for video game translation and proofreading, I was contacted by an agency to ask if I'd like to...

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Machine translation (MT) is rather good these days. Luckily for human translators, machines have difficulty translating imaginative or literary texts... among other things. Machines struggle to detect and faithfully translate shades of meaning and cultural nuances. We need human translators to identify these things in a foreign text and convey them fluently, in a culturally appropriate way. This is what localisation is all about, and it's a field in which human translators ar

The 30th of April is Moehanga Day. What's that you ask? It's the anniversary celebrating the "discovery" of Great Britain by New...

One of Joe Biden's first steps as President of the United States has been to reinstate the Spanish language version of the Whitehouse.gov...