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Net Zero at the Scale of One Desk
I almost didn’t write about joining the SME Climate Hub. I started this article four times, and deleted it four times. In March, Words We Trust became a signatory of the SME Climate Hub, the small-business pathway into the UN-backed Race to Zero campaign. The commitment is public and specific:…
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The Invisible Decisions That Keep One Health Whole in French
The words for One Health already exist in French. Keeping the concept intact — ecocentric, dynamic, credited — is the actual job. One Health was built to tear down walls. Between human medicine and veterinary science. Between plant health and the health of the rivers, soils and forests that hold…
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Reading the PPED Backwards: What the FR Draft Articles SAY That the EN Version Don’t
I was reading 18 articles. Two authentic texts (English and French) codrafted simultaneously, each shaped by its own legal tradition, each equally binding. I read the French, then I read the English and I realized they were not saying the same thing. Not because anyone made a mistake. Because two…
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How the CAT Tool Is Costing You Credibility
You know the feeling. You don’t speak French fluently, but you have a bilingual colleague skimming the French translation of your annual safeguarding report. They stop, frown, and look up. “Is it wrong?” you ask. “No,” they say, hesitating. “Grammar is perfect. Terminology is compliant. Numbers match.” “So it’s good?”…
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I Stopped Searching for Translation Jobs. Now They Find Me Every Morning.
Most freelance translators know the ritual. You wake up, coffee in hand, and open five browser tabs (at least). For me, it was ReliefWeb, UNJobs, ProZ, my LinkedIn saved search, and whatever new board someone mentioned in a Discord server last week. You scroll. You skim. You click through twenty…
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Vicarious trauma in translation work: why duty of care matters
It is 11:00 AM on a Tuesday in a quiet home office in Lyon. The coffee is lukewarm. The street outside is silent, save for a passing delivery van. On the screen, however, the world is ending. The translator—let’s call her Elena—is working on a witness statement from the eastern…
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When Ebola Posters Failed: What I Learned Translating Life or Death Instructions
Picture a poster on the wall of an Ebola treatment center in Guinea, 2014. It shows the symptoms to watch for: fever, vomiting, bleeding. It lists what to do: wash hands, avoid contact, seek help. It carries a message that, in communities where touching the dead is a sacred duty,…
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Humanitarian Translators as First Responders
Seventy-two hours after the earthquake, the field hospital begins to fill. The patients aren’t just arriving with crush injuries anymore; they are arriving with the first, shivering signs of infectious disease. Rumors metastasize in five languages. The water is poisoned. The aid workers are stealing children. The vaccines cause paralysis.…
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Quality is not a happy accident: it’s engineered
Stop treating translation like a gamble. Discover why high-quality translation is an engineered outcome based on industrial standards like ISO 17100 and precise specifications, and learn how professional workflows protect your global brand from liability and revenue loss.
