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We wish to help everybody to take a closer look at the translation industry and answer to the frequently asked questions about translation. That is why we are going to publish the most interesting articles on the translation world and thus provide customers and translators with valuable suggestions. Please, fell free to submit your articles and related resources. We hope that thanks to you these pages will grow and develop.
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In some cases, there's no win-win situation when you're looking to increase product quality while decreasing cost. Translation is the exception; measures that decrease word count and therefore cost often result in a more precise and accessible translation. Here are some "translator's eye view" tips gleaned from some of my recent projects... Even if English is a very important language, most of the world population will still not be speaking it in the near future. Having your documents translated brings you closer to foreign markets and polishes your company image. Increasing globalisation and the Internet has made the need for quality translation more important than ever... The research has shown that even fluent English speakers are much more likely to buy from a company whose website has content in their native tongue. Producing and maintaining multi-lingual content has become even more important in the last couple of years, as Internet growth in emerging markets has reduced the market share of English online (based on page views) from over 50% in 2002 to under 30% now... The translation industry is slowly climbing a tortured path toward regulation and accreditation in the United States, with the ASTM meeting now to come up with nationally recognized standards for translation, LISA issuing its own ideas about what constitutes good practice in localization, and every translator, translation vendor, translation school, and translation organization adding thoughts and suggestions to this process. But has anyone stopped to ask if this is a good idea, if the industry will really benefit from accreditation or regulation, and who might suffer? That's the point of this article: to take a close look at these two closely-related issues and explore what I think are some overlooked problems...