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The article presents some recommendations from personal experience on how to avoid mistakes at the stage of accepting the translation order from a new client. It will be of use to translators who are just getting established in the translation business.

Una buena traducción se debe poder leer como si fuera un texto original. Es un principio básico e indiscutible. Cuando se trabaja con dos lenguas al unísono, es muy difícil apartarse de una para quedarse sumergido en la segunda, la de llegada, la que va a leer el consumidor de la traducción. Si esas lenguas son muy diferentes en su estructura formal y en la cultura de la sociedad en la que existen, la tarea se hace hercúlea. Vea aquí algunas dificultades que presenta la traducción del ruso al español.

Business plan is a sine qua non condition for starting a business. In some countries it is necessary for any kind of financial support. This article gives some ideas about how to write this document and suggests a basic structure adapted to the translation market. Key words: Business plan for translators, Marketing and Financial plans, price policy.

The ProZ.com Blue Board is the complete, searchable database of records made up of feedback entries posted by language service providers in connection with outsourcers they have worked with. If you are a language service provider, learn how to use it to manage risks. If you are an outsourcer, see how you can use the Blue Board to promote your services and good conduct.

This study aims at examining the English translation of humorous expressions in Zakani’s Ethics of Aristocrats in order to 1) detect the strategies used by the translators in rendering Persian humor into English, 2) identify the most frequently used translation strategies and 3) evaluate the loss and gain of meaning and form occurred in the translation of humor discourses. To achieve this objective, humor expressions have been categorized based on Schmitz’ categorization of humor (2002); that is, universal humor, cultural humor and linguistic humor. Strategies are identified and categorized based on Newmark’s (1988) strategies. Loss and gain in meaning and form have been evaluated with regard to the explanations given by the emendator of the Persian work. Results suggest that ‘literal translation’ has been applied with highest frequency but this strategy has mostly been accompanied with other procedures in order for the message to be conveyed. Keywords: humor, humor translation, Persian humor, translation strategies, loss and gain in translation

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