By Catherine Howard, PLD Copyeditor For our Distinguished Speaker at the ATA Conference in New Orleans (October 24–27, 2018), PLD has the great honor of hosting Marco Neves, a prominent translator, language expert, and author from Portugal. He will be presenting a double session relevant to all translators interested in Portuguese and language diversity, entitled […]
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Let’s Prepare for our 2019 Election!
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Help us celebrate Translation Day!
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