Weaponized Legal Translation
Inaccurate translations are now being weaponized in the legal process to attack what are actually innocent parties. Much…
Indefiniteness in Legal Translation
Legal documents are full of vague and ambiguous terms that don’t seem to refer to anything, and thus…
Chinese municipal districts translated using indexicality
A seemingly impossible translation challenge is to determine the corresponding terminology for municipal district types in modern cities.…
Revamping Legal English Education
Numerous countries are pursuing contradictory policies of training lawyers and linguists simultaneously in low-quality legal translation. In law…
Bland Terms in Translations tell Exciting Stories
Behind the seemingly bland language in corporate legal documents for translation are exciting stories. Most translators I’ve talked…
Knowledge hierarchies in China’s translation industry
Companies in China today spend a lot of money to hire native English language experts, and yet continue…
Chinese Policy Metaphors Translated
Translating metaphorical or indirect language from Chinese to English is one of the great puzzles of the field.…
Why Black Myth: Wukong Story Dialogue is Awkward
Professional reviewers and players of Black Myth: Wukong complained about confusing dialogue and a story that is hard…
Is Mandarin Chinese worth learning? No one thinks so
“The craze for teaching Chinese may be a misguided fad” argued The Economist in 2007. The Economist found…
Language Polishing–Stop Using It!
Translation departments in China have long relied on language polishing, despite academic findings that it is pseudoscientific and…