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Poll: Have you ever considered crossing the bridge from Translation to Copywriting?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
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No Aug 20

Translation and copywriting use different techniques and serve different roles. I have been transcreating for a while and I did work in advertising many years ago, but copywriting is not my cup of tea…
 
Peter Motte
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Belgium
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Dutch to Flemish
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What's in the mind of the client? Aug 20

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:

Translation and copywriting use different techniques and serve different roles. I have been transcreating for a while and I did work in advertising many years ago, but copywriting is not my cup of tea…


Often the biggest question is: What's in the mind of the client? Writing your own texts is not the same as writing somebody else's texts.
 


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