English Translation Style Guide for EU – Writing English – PUNCTUATION – COMMA

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Items in a series Here, the comma may be considered to stand for a missing ‘and’ or ‘or’. John mowed the lawn, Mary did the cooking and Frank lazed around. He came, saw and conquered. The committee considered sugar, beef … Read More

Gambling in Finland

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The gambling games are very popular in Finland and their supply is diverse. The market is essentially governed by the law of 23.11.2001 on lotteries (Lotterilag 23.11.2001 / 1047). This applies to a wide range of activities and games like … Read More

Drupal concepts and terminology – Nodes and content types

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Nodes and content types The node is the central element of content model used by Drupal. In its simplest version, a node is a generic object composed of a title and a text content. The power of Drupal is the … Read More

Probability in games of chance

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One of the player’s goal is to find an optimal method to win the game. We say that the players play a martingale. It should not be confused with the martingale probability which is a stochastic process such that its … Read More

EU Clear English Tips for Translators – Prefer a verb to an abstract noun

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Change > to carry out an evaluation of performance > evaluate performance conduct an investigation into fraud > investigate fraud perform an audit of operations > audit operations give consideration to consumers’ concerns > consider consumers’ concerns secure the involvement … Read More

Modern theories of art

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(Genco Gulan, “Hermes Walker” (2009) 50 cm * 50 cm * 90 cm, Ozil Collection) Without a clear distinction, it can be argued that theories of art treat this subject in a more general way than aesthetics. For example, a … Read More

Translation process in machine translation

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(Vauquois Triangle, model for the foundation of the machine translation) The translation process (in the human sense) can be divided into three phases: understanding: assimilation of the meaning conveyed by a text, the mean of a writer …; deverbalisation: forgetting … Read More

Implementation of e-commerce

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Technical specifications Technical specifications were adopted for electronic commerce with ebXML, short for Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language. These specifications are based on the XML markup language. This standard is published by OASIS. ebXML has become an international technical … Read More

Justifications for gambling in EU countries

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Justifications in national legislative materials and court decisions There follows a list of examples of justifications actually advanced by the organs of Member States. Most of them list several of these justifications, often without drawing any precise distinctions between them: … Read More

Corporate purposes

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The primary function of a business varies with the company or even according to the points of view within the same company (eg perspective of the shareholder, employee, union, management. ..).

Denmark Translation Style Guide

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Full name: Kingdom of Denmark. Neither Greenland (adj. Greenland) nor the Faeroes (NB not Faeroe Islands, adj. Faeroese) are part of the European Union. Official language: Danish. Geography Cities Note the names Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg. Bodies of water Write Wattenmeer. … Read More

Remote Gambling and the Land-Based Gambling Market in European Union

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In terms of trying to appreciate what the effect of continuing evolution of remote gambling companies and technologies will have on traditional gambling services sectors, it is necessary to speculate on how their presence will affect aggregate demand for gambling … Read More

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