Language | Technology | Business April/May 2013 Region Focus: Ireland The changing Irish language demographic Software localization into the Irish language Localization industry in Ireland Internationalization of small Irish businesses Core Focus: Translation Using macros to improve translation efficiency Translation trends: Interviews from the ATA conference Online resources as a tool for the technical translator 01CoverIrishTombLandscape#135.indd 1 3/29/13 8:49 AM Beautifully Finished Transform your translation process and double your throughput. Combine the power of secure and customizable SDL machine translation with the expertise of your translators. Are you ready to join the post-editing revolution? 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I by a sidebar from Nataly Kelly), Ciarán myself; it couldn’t have been very good. don’t even remember his name or how Ó Bréartúin and Seanán Ó Coistín cover After all, I did it after having taken exactly I had managed to get in touch Irish computer software localization, French 101 and then immersing myself with him to get my hands on this journal Laura Grehan covers its localization in France for a couple of months. I in the frst place. In short, even though industry and Dermot Quirk covers its distinctly remember sitting at home, it reads pretty smoothly in English, my internationalization. We have a review of evening after evening while the other translation is the work of a rank amateur Wordbee from Silvia Rodríguez Vázquez. study abroad students were doing because I have absolutely no way of Additionally, Kate Edwards looks at locale something more fun, craning over my shipment strategy, Terena Bell compares checking its accuracy. Validation is key in dictionary, painstakingly composing localization with Downton Abbey and translation, as I know now. But I knew no sentences in English from a French World Gary Muddyman discusses the beneft translation theory, not even the basics. War II refugee’s journal. I followed her of having local clients. In our Takeaway, preparations, her fight over the Pyrenees This issue’s Core Focus takes a look Benjamin B. Sargent takes a look at Arabic into Spain, her overnight stays in inns at some of the basics of translation, and the Arabic online market. and jails, and fnally her jubilant meeting though more from the point of view of When I sat and penned that with her husband, who had fed to business-oriented translation. Jeremy translation, I had no intention of making Northern Africa to fght there. Coombs has some advice on using translation anything more than a This last week, I found it buried in macros to improve translation effciency, hobby. And, in fact, I think many of us an old notebook and reread it. A few and Jeff Williams has interviewed a few have arrived at this career somewhat more complex phrases were noted in translators about machine translation, accidentally. Accidents, however, can their original French; apparently, I had quality and so on. 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Localization World Silicon VALLEY, October 9-11, 2013 4-7 PostEdit/ TOC #135.indd 6 3/29/13 8:51 AM MultiLingual Language | Technology | Business April/May 2013 #135 Volume 24 Issue 3 Know-how for Global Success n Up Front n Feature Articles n 3 multilingual.com n Region Focus: Ireland n 4 Post Editing 24 The changing Irish language n News demographic n 8 News — Brian Ó Broin n 11 Calendar 29 A closer look at Ireland’s language picture Nataly Kelly n Reviews Software localization 12 Wordbee 30 into the Irish language — Silvia Rodríguez Vázquez Up Front — Ciarán Ó Bréartúin & Seanán Ó Coistín n Columns and Commentary