The question in the heading is profound and could be discussed for ages, but for the purposes of this website, I'll refrain from any philosophical reflections and answer it briefly.
I am Kaisa Nurkka, a Finnish translator and creative writer. I offer creative translation services, focusing on entertainment and marketing work.
In 2015, I graduated from the University of Helsinki with an MA in English Philology. I've had several jobs over the years, including as a translator, marketing assistant and copywriter. At the beginning of 2022 I started my own business in order to make translation my main occupation. Being self-employed has been a blast, and allowed me to concentrate on what I love: the English and Finnish languages, creative writing, and problem-solving.
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In the Finnish version of this blog post, I started with a few funny mistakes made by machine translation tools. Subtitling tools often use automatic translators (similar to Google Translate, except better) to create a template that the translator then edits. Machine translators are funniest with idioms, as they often translate them literally when...
