Technical Communication Quarterly Apr 2025

Building Translator Repertoire Across a Humanitarian Translation App: Translingual Practice and Tarjimly

Gabriel Lorenzo Aguilar Pennsylvania State University

Abstract

This article creates a crowdsourced database for Tarjimly, a humanitarian translation app, based on recent technical communication and translingual research. The humanitarian translation app is a unique technological site that recruits volunteer translators to interpret for migrants and refugees. Tarjimly's privacy policy prevents translators from building their translingual repertoire across the platform. This database allows translators to crowdsource their colloquial interpretations so that others may learn about regional, cultural, and dialectal translations from Tarjimly's humanitarian audiences.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2025-04-03
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10.1080/10572252.2024.2372784
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