“ … the more disruptive innovations like the internet boost the overall productivity of the economy, the more room there will be for old-fashioned industries that focus on quality and heritage rather than novelty. Sometimes the best way forwards is backwards.”Specialist translators should focus on niche markets where price and customer-imposed tools are less critical, in a word on niches where 'brain crafting' is a plus.
11 July 2014
Brain-crafted translations
On 14 June Schumpeter wrote in the Economist:
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OSASCOMP = Opinion, Size, Age, Shape, Colour, Origin, Material, Purpose QOSASCOMP = Quantity, Opinion, Size, Age, Shape, Colour, Origin, ... -
Tommy Butler of Atrinex has posted a corporate bullshit generator . He uses a Dilbert strip as an attention grabber: Tommy writes... -
While beyond my blog's usual scope, this item may prove useful to translators and interpreters working from or into English in any field...
