Dealing with quotations – Editor Notes
Notes from the Editor - December 2015 How to deal with quotations When the text you are translating into English contains a quotation, and it is from a world-renowned figure, [...]
Notes from the Editor - December 2015 How to deal with quotations When the text you are translating into English contains a quotation, and it is from a world-renowned figure, [...]
Notes from the Editor – May 2016 Branch to the right English is a subject-verb-object language. And it is considered a right-branching language. In right-branching sentences, the subject is described [...]
Notes from the Editor - April 2016 Using the singular “they” for gender neutrality English does not have a generic third-person pronoun, unlike, for instance, Turkish. This poses a problem [...]
Notes from the Editor – March 2016 When to use the imperative form of a verb In some texts, for example, sets of instructions, web content, or advertising copy, it [...]
When you first apply for a copy-editing position at Dragoman, you might assume your job will be limited with surface errors; it will be done after correcting spelling, prepositions and some [...]
Notes from the Editor - November 2015 Get the names of administrative divisions right Names of administrative divisions change from country to country. When you are translating or editing a [...]
Notes from the Editor - August 2015 Do not translate full company names Full company names are registered names of businesses in their country of incorporation and, therefore, should not [...]
Notes from the Editor - July 2015 Style for acronyms Spell out the entire phrase the first time you use it and put the acronym in parenthesis. Even if the style [...]
Notes from the Editor - June 2015 Get the job titles right Forget about translating job titles or using online dictionaries for that purpose! The ideal way to find a [...]
Notes from the Editor – May 2015 Avoid unnecessary capitalization Do not capitalize words just because they were capitalized in the source text. If the U.S. style does not require capitalization [...]