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LINGUISTIC JOBS
What kinds of jobs can you get with a linguistics major? What career options are there for linguistics PhDs who don’t want to go into academia? The linguistics jobs series interviews people who have a linguistics major, linguistics minor, masters in linguistics, or doctorate in linguistics, about what they’re doing with their careers, advice for […]
TRANSLATING VS. LOCALIZING GAME ASSETS, AND WHY DOES IT EVEN MATTER?
It is a question that constantly weighs on the game translator’s shoulders: Should I localize or translate this? When should I stick to the source text and when would localization be too much? Or should I even leave it untranslated? What is localization? Translation is the rendering of a text into another language. Localization, often abbreviated L10n, […]
Interview with Terminologist Henrik Nilsson
Henrik Nilsson, born in 1970, has been working as a terminologist at the Swedish Centre for Terminology (Terminologicentrum TNC) since 1997. At the centre, he worked with Eurodicautom and he participated in one of the working groups during the development of the IATE database of the European Commission, a software he later evaluated within the […]
