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The staple of the translator’s toolkit

As with all master craftspeople, artisans, and (word)smiths, we translators have a variety of highly sophisticated tools at our disposal to help us piece together the perfect puzzle presented by each and every translation task. Computer-assisted translation tools...

Translat-inator: Rise of the machine (translation)

The reality of digitisation and the pace with which it is infiltrating and impacting on our everyday lives is undeniable – and, seemingly, unstoppable. From apps to social media, interactive advertisements to smart fridges, virtually every aspect of our modern...

To Americanize or not to Americanise…

Localisation is an important part of our work at LKT, whether it’s adapting an existing text for a specific English-speaking target audience or translating directly into another variant of English. One of these variants is American English, enabling our customers to...

Worlds and words apart – Tolkien in Oxford

“The invention of languages is the foundation. The ‘stories’ were made rather to provide a world for the languages than the reverse.” – J. R. R. Tolkien While most of us use language in some form every single day, it’s relatively rare that we consciously decide to...