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Not love, not money. It’s translation that makes the world go round.

In an article in the Huffington Post marking International Translation Day (celebrated on 30 September), Nataly Kelly, Chief Research Officer at Common Sense Advisory and co-author of “Found in Translation”, listed 10 ways that translation benefits us all: 1. Translation saves lives. 2. Translation prevents terror. 3. Translation keeps the peace. 4. Translation elects world leaders. 5. …

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Posted byMarian Dougan2 October 201216 July 2014Posted inCommunicating, Life and work and everything else, TranslationTags: Communicating, Huffington Post, International Translation Day, Life and work, translation4 Comments on Not love, not money. It’s translation that makes the world go round.

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