June 13, 2012

Clearing up the Top 10 Myths About Translation

“Clearing up the Top 10 Myths About Translation,” an article by Nataly Kelly, co-author of Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World (foreword by David Crystal) addresses such myths as:

• Any bilingual can be a translator or an interpreter. 
• Translation only matters to "language people."
• Crowdsourcing puts professional translators out of work.