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Why did you study law ? Would you prefer to be a linguist or a lawyer? How to do approach a translation ? What is the main objective of EBC ? What is the difference between countries that use the euro and those that don’t? What is the difference btw equal treatment and non discrimination principle
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Trainee Lawyer Linguist

Interviewed at European Central Bank

4.4
Nov 26, 2025

Why did you study law ? Would you prefer to be a linguist or a lawyer? How to do approach a translation ? What is the main objective of EBC ? What is the difference between countries that use the euro and those that don’t? What is the difference btw equal treatment and non discrimination principle

One problem that has come up has been the disambiguation of homophonous words in US English to UK English localization. For example, "cheque" and "check", the former meaning a 'bank check' and the later meaning 'to check up on'. How could you disambiguate between the two in American English to properly localize a text into UK English?
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Computational Linguist

Interviewed at BOLD

3.3
Oct 22, 2021

One problem that has come up has been the disambiguation of homophonous words in US English to UK English localization. For example, "cheque" and "check", the former meaning a 'bank check' and the later meaning 'to check up on'. How could you disambiguate between the two in American English to properly localize a text into UK English?

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