By Marcos Chiquetto Yesterday, a song from my childhood came into my head. And I couldn’t remember who the artist was. I immediately grabbed my cellphone and typed a line of the lyrics into Google. The singer`s name popped right up. But, what would have happened if I hadn’t been…

By Marcos Chiquetto − I’m going to replace my HD with an SSD! Anybody who is up-to-date on notebooks understands this phrase. But, what do these letters stand for? What do they mean? OK, let’s start with the acronym HD. The first commercial computers came out during the 1950s and…

By Marcos Chiquetto Our company has been developing campaigns to attract new clients for decades, beginning in the 1980s by sending email messages and direct mail to potential clients, and evolving with the times until today, using messages and posts on social networks like this one you are reading right…

By Marcos Chiquetto Marie used to be an English > French translator. Last month, she started working as a project manager at a multilingual agency. An inquiry arrives from WYZ, a client of the agency: − Can you do a marketing translation from English to Spanish, for Argentina? Marie takes…

By Marcos Chiquetto Our company has been developing campaigns to attract new clients for decades, beginning in the 1980s by sending email messages and direct mail to potential clients, and evolving with the times until today, using messages and posts on social networks like this one you are reading right…

By Marcos Chiquetto One day, a few years ago, at our Brazilian translation agency. I am talking with my partner about our client Tech Gigant (the name is fictitious). −The Tech Gigant reverse auction is next Thursday. - What time is it scheduled for? - Nine in the morning. It…

By Marcos Chiquetto Our Brazilian translation company was established in 1985, initially working only with translation from English to Portuguese. One of our first clients, who is still our client to this day, was HP.

By Marcos Chiquetto I just finished reading the book “The Dawn of Language” by Sverker Johansson. It is a general survey of the current state of study related to the emergence of human language.

By Marcos Chiquetto Among all of mankind’s creations, what are the oldest things that we still use today? — At my grandmother’s house, there is a chair that must be 100 years old. — While traveling in Europe, I saw a 400-year-old castle that people were still living in. —…