Do we actually know what a literal translation is?
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8 October, 2015
We decided to write a post about literal translation because we have noticed that many people are confused about it.
We often say that translators are language creators working with meaning, not with words, that sometimes clients expect you to deliver...
Our colleague Magnus, native Swedish speaker, sent us this picture from an automatic teller machine in Spain:
The quality is not very good, and we have removed sensitive data (and of course the name of the Bank), but some of you will spot the error easily...