{"id":4904,"date":"2015-09-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/2015\/09\/30\/happy-international-translation-day\/"},"modified":"2021-01-03T11:28:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T11:28:59","slug":"happy-international-translation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/2015\/09\/30\/happy-international-translation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy International Translation Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Translation Day is celebrated every September 30th since 1953 on the feast of St. Jerome, the Bible translator who is considered the patron saint of translators.<\/p>\n<p>The great thing I love about translation is that, even though you have to render the same meaning the original author tried to accomplish, there&#8217;s a wonderful creative work translators have to do in order to communicate the message in a way that sounds as natural as it has been originally thought and written in the target language and for that particular target audience.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gpi_translators_day_home.jpg\" alt=\"GPI_Translators_Day_home\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nelson Mandela wisely said:<\/p>\n<h5>&#8220;If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<p>Translation is both an art and a science so there are many challenges, like phrasal verbs, collocations, PUNs, idiomatic expressions, as well as deadlines and even tedious subject matters. But the ability to create a communication bridge that brings a product to different cultures, or makes a company&#8217;s services available all over the world, or makes a website accessible to different language speakers, that ability to transfer meaning to others is the main reward for all of us who love this wonderful profession.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Translation Day to all translators and linguists who work every day to close the gap between the different languages and cultures around the world!<\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Translation and Localization Resources<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>You may gain further insights into global e-business, global SEO, website translation, country specific cultural facts and related topics by reviewing some previous blogs and resources written by GPI:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Translation Day is celebrated every September 30th since 1953 on the feast of St. Jerome, the Bible translator who is considered the patron saint of translators. The great thing I love about translation is that, even though you have to render the same meaning the original author tried to accomplish, there&#8217;s a wonderful creative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[470,1007],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22564,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions\/22564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}