To give you an idea of what I'm talking about, before I became a translation and interpretation student I used to translate some videogames in my free time. This allowed me to get to know the "ins and outs" of this type of project. When I was tested to work at Nintendo as an English-Spanish translator, I felt very comfortable thanks to my previous experience with such texts.

I have seen too many colleagues stammering when working out an estimate, stopping at every morpheme, really suffering in a process that should be completely natural. My physiotherapist does not hold back when quoting his fees, why should I?

There is nothing new about the idea that words are not all there is to reality, but that reality often cannot be changed without them.

Any true translator must certainly feel sick at his or her stomach to hear translation being spoken of as a commodity.

Who can forget that boss who said I should do the translations "quickly, however it comes out" (as if the response to a divorce suit could be done "quickly" or as if you could pull a tooth "however it comes out").