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Italian vs. English

A Feather Green: Comparing the habits of Italian and English Growing up in a small Oregon town in the United States, everyone I knew spoke only English all the

  • By Miriam Hurley
  • October 2, 2013
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Translating for the Language Mavens

For 20 years, my friend Jun and I have disagreed about language. A one-time copyeditor, she rigorously responds to “How are you?”

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  • April 23, 2015

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Customer always right?

English is a sensitive issue for many Italians. Until recently, it was infamously poorly taught in schools. Knowing English well is

  • Miriam Hurley
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  • September 22, 2014

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Review of 101 Things a Translator Needs to Know

Pithy yet potentially daunting, 101 Things a Translator Needs to Know sums up in 101 short entries what one might learn in a lifetime

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  • July 7, 2014

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Ode to Mailing Lists

Early in my career, around the turn of the millennium, I was at a dinner in Washington D.C. and met a

  • Miriam Hurley
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  • April 10, 2014

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The Difficult Lives of Translation Clients

I’ve been trying to find a decent plumber for weeks now. The plumbers, in high demand, are holding all the cards.

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  • February 18, 2014

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Short and Sweet

I like to be helpful to my clients and welcome their requests with open arms. But it can happen that the

  • Miriam Hurley
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  • December 19, 2013

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Becoming a Translator: My Story

Fresh-faced, bushy-tailed translators ready to blaze their translation trail often ask experienced translators how they did it. Their accounts vary wildly

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  • December 17, 2013

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Glimmer of hope for IT>EN quality?

Most Italian>English translations are terrible, ranging from machine-translated hilarity to shoddy, non-professional, native-tongue translations. When you come across well-translated English in

  • Miriam Hurley
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  • October 22, 2013

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The needless challenges of searching for a quality translator

Clients and friends often ask me to suggest translators. When the translator needed is in my language combination (IT>EN) or vice

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  • October 21, 2013
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