Any store owner or service provider doing business on a local level will want to advertise his business in the Google Local Business Directory, fondly called the Google Maps. This amazing directory automatically appears, whenever a web surfer initiates a search that includes a product name and a locale. Google then automatically displays a map [...]

English to SpanishPolysemy. The main issue in translation from English into Spanish, or at least in my specialties (technical translation) is polysemy: one English word can mean many different things and have very different translations in Spanish. Let’s see a very simple example:

“Screen” (as a noun)- “pantalla”: a display device- “pantalla”: a protection device- “tamiz”: [...]

I am from Edinburgh and work here as well but now and again I must visit all over the UK for my job. As a consultant for a substantial paper printing company, it does mean travelling at least two times a month. Mostly my job takes me to the prominent cities (London, Liverpool et cetera) [...]