Yelena McCafferty
Imagine Cinderella in fur slippers...
Some scholars suggest that in Cinderella written in French by Charles Perrault her slippers weren’t made of glass at all.
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Yelena McCafferty
- Dec 2, 2021
- 1 min
No, Alexa’s translations are still not good enough
Two years after testing Alexa's translation I give it another try.
Yelena McCafferty
- Oct 31, 2021
- 2 min
If I were to make a film about translators...
New films featuring translators and interpreters can give insight into our work but there has to be an interesting storyline.
Yelena McCafferty
- Sep 7, 2021
- 2 min
Kommersant UK interviews Yelena McCafferty
This is a preview of the interview with an award-winning Russian translator and interpreter published by Kommersant UK in Russian.
Yelena McCafferty
- Jun 14, 2021
- 1 min
Google не рекомендует использовать машинный перевод
Специалисты корпорации Google предостерегают владельцев сайтов от использования Google Translate.
Yelena McCafferty
- Oct 28, 2020
- 2 min
Jane Eyre and you
The scale of the task at hand for someone translating a literary piece is enormous, even if you consider just the small issue of “you”.
Yelena McCafferty
- Sep 28, 2020
- 2 min
“Unknown” translators and interpreters
There are a few famous people who did translation or interpreting in the past but that’s not what we usually know them for!
Yelena McCafferty
- Aug 11, 2020
- 2 min
Mind your language
When I studied English at University, we were taught to say “the Ukraine”. However, in modern use the article has been dropped.
Yelena McCafferty
- Jan 15, 2020
- 1 min
Google warns against using automated translations
Google online marketing specialists warn website owners against using online translation tools. In its Fundamentals of Digital Marketing cou
Yelena McCafferty
- Feb 4, 2019
- 2 min
How I tested Alexa translation skills
Our blog readers will remember the article I wrote a while ago about how we tested Skype Translator in Russian. Now the time has come to put
Yelena McCafferty
- Mar 20, 2018
- 2 min
Brand translations: piece of cake?
We look at various methods of translating foreign brands into Russian, using the examples of Lidl, John Deere and London Underground. Brand
Yelena McCafferty
- Feb 27, 2018
- 2 min
Translating for Export: Language Solutions
Companies have several options of tackling their language requirements. If the translation demands are great, one way of dealing with it wou
Yelena McCafferty
- Sep 23, 2016
- 2 min
Musings on Critique of Contemporary Translation Technology
Certain points raised at this lecture on translation technology relate to translators' fears, ethics and paradoxes. Is post-editing inev
Yelena McCafferty
- Jan 24, 2016
- 6 min
Family Matters
Our work in genealogy translation is not limited to civil status records written in Russian originating from Poland before the Russian Revol
Yelena McCafferty
- Sep 26, 2009
- 2 min
The Apostrophe Saga or how a Single Comma Can Ruin a Translation
You don’t need to fight with apostrophes in Russian – they don’t exist. However, that doesn’t make Russian punctuation any easier. In fact,
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