MT or TM – the difference is people
At Klein Wolf Peters, it’s people who generate content for people – including with the help of translation memory (TM) software. This post explains how it differs from machine translation (MT) and why that’s good for customers.
The curse of knowledge
The inability to imagine what it is like for someone else not to know something we know can seriously impair our capacity to communicate. How can we become more empathic communicators? How can we lift the curse of knowledge?
The best is left unsaid—sometimes
Hints and allusions can be charmingly suggestive, and sometimes the old adage “The less said, the better” is good advice. But the elegance of the unsaid is rarely suited for communication in the corporate world.
Same words, different things
People who grow up in the same linguistic milieu can use the same words to mean relatively different things. Conflicts can arise, even among native speakers, when they don’t realize that the other person has understood something quite different.
Behind the screen: Maria Wolf
A year ago – has it been that long already? – we ran a series of short interviews with the people at the heart of Klein Wolf Peters. Now it’s time to hear from them again.
Translate Better conference
An idyllic setting is always a plus when you’re about to learn something new. Here are some impressions from a conference I attended recently outside Berlin.
Explaining data protection clearly and concisely
The EU General Data Protection Regulation comes into force on 25 May. All companies with customers in Europe must now introduce major changes to their organisational structures, processes and established procedures – and communicate them in several languages.
A jolt of modernity
In today’s world, technology is constantly changing – and so are the ways we interact with it. Sometimes, we can be taken by surprise when something familiar turns out to have changed. This is the story of how my own email shocked me by displaying more intelligence than I had expected.
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