Category: Articles

How a mistranslated “plate eye” on a construction drawing led to Syncro Translation Services, and what an agency does at a construction fair.

If you are passionate about letters and Romanian culture, you are always welcome at the First Romanian School in Șcheii Brașovului.

The main obstacle to recognizing successful ideas is our tendency to treat anecdotes and abstract notions differently.

When we write a sentence it must have logic, coherence, intonation and a clear message. Why punctuation matters in translation.

From the Tower of Babel to today’s translation industry: a few decisive steps in the history of translation.

Advances in telecommunications have reduced distances, yet barriers to understanding remain strong. Why language technology cannot replace the human translator.

From the first machine translation into Romanian in 1962 to Neacșu’s Letter of 1521: milestones in the history of translation in Romania.

In texts where commas are missing from the right places, ambiguity rules. A look at the “comma crisis” and the troublesome comma.

A journey into the fascinating world of similarities of meaning between Romanian words and their counterparts in other languages.

A journey back in time to the age of the enigmatic runes – the 24-letter futhark used by the Nordic peoples for communication and…