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Scottish Translator Internship — Always Hiring

Scottish Translator Internship in Delhi at CryptoMize

Apply for the Scottish Translator Internship in Delhi at CryptoMize — a six-month certified program, hiring continuously, on one of the most distinctive desks in the linguistics cell. The work is English to Scots and Scots to English for live engagements: public-facing copy, community material, and heritage-sensitive text where the decision to write in Scots at all is itself the strategy. Interns learn the desk's orthographic convention from week one, train across Doric and Central varieties, and translate real material under senior markup throughout. Below is the full description — the work, the eligibility bar, and how selection runs.

01The actual work

What will you actually do as a Scottish Translator at CryptoMize?

Translate engagement material between English and Scots — public-facing copy, community notices, heritage and cultural text — under the desk's review chain

Hold the desk's orthographic convention across every document: one spelling standard, applied consistently, because the language itself will not impose one

Match variety to audience deliberately — Doric wording for North-East readers, Central Scots for broad Lowland reach — with the choice justified in review

Calibrate density: broad Scots for local trust, lighter Scots toward Scottish Standard English for wider audiences, the dial set per engagement

Preserve the literary register when a text calls for it — the Burns-and-makars inheritance is available to Scottish prose and expected in cultural work

Flag the untranslatable honestly: where an English concept has no honest Scots rendering, say so and propose re-conception instead of forcing

Run QA passes on your own drafts — spelling-convention drift, density consistency, and reader-register checks before senior markup

Build a reviewed translation portfolio across Doric, Central, and lighter-register work by program end

02Capability profile

What skills and tools does a Scottish Translator need?

Native or near-native command of written ScotsOrthographic consistency under a house conventionVariety sensitivity — Doric, Insular, Central, Southern, Ulster ScotsDensity calibration across the Scots-to-English continuumEnglish source analysis for meaning before wordingLiterary register awareness from the makar traditionHonest flagging of untranslatable conceptsDocumented self-review before markupResearch habit for regional lexiconCultural judgment on when Scots is the right choice at allDeadline discipline across a live queueCare with heritage-sensitive community material
Phrase as the CAT environment with Scots-language memoriesDesk orthographic convention document (the house spelling line)Concise Scots Dictionary and Scots Language Centre referencesXbench-style QA pass on convention driftVariety-tagged glossary workspace shared with the desk
Depth of demonstrated skill in the specific role disciplineClassification and scope of the client engagement the role supportsUrgency and time-sensitivity of active project requirementsTrack record built across CryptoMize engagements

Also known as: english to scots translator · scots translator · scottish language specialist · doric translator

03Six months, structured

Scottish Translator Internship — the six months

From Scots speaker to convention-holding translator. Named mentor, real material, a portfolio across varieties at the exit.

  1. MONTH 1

    Convention and ear

    The house orthography, variety geography, and daily drills on short community copy — every piece returned marked up.

    1/6
  2. MONTH 2

    First owned translations

    Scoped documents carried end-to-end: source read, draft, self-review, senior markup, revision — and first shipped lines.

    2/6
  3. MONTH 3

    Variety rotation

    Work assigned in Doric and Central Scots in alternating weeks, with variety errors surfaced as the week's core lesson.

    3/6
  4. MONTH 4

    Register and literary work

    Heritage and cultural material in the makar-inflected register, contrasted deliberately against plain community voice.

    4/6
  5. MONTH 5

    Live engagement queue

    Real deadlines, full QA chain, and the density-dial decisions that Scotland-facing campaigns turn on.

    5/6
  6. MONTH 6

    Portfolio and evaluation

    Certification review of your variety-spanning portfolio by the desk lead. Strong interns head the queue when translator seats open.

    6/6

04The engagement surface

CryptoMize work a Scottish Translator touches

Every role plugs into live engagements across the five Penta-P domains — these are the services your work feeds.

05Answers, searchable

Scottish Translator Internship — frequently asked questions

AYou translate live engagement material between English and Scots, hold the desk's spelling convention across everything you touch, and train across Doric and Central varieties — building a reviewed portfolio over the six months.
ANo — the desk works in Scots, the West Germanic language of Lowland Scotland, sister to English with its own literature from the makars to Burns.

Scottish Gaelic is a Celtic language and a different discipline entirely.

AScots has no academy imposing one standard spelling, so documents drift the moment discipline slips.

The desk maintains its own written convention and every intern learns it first — consistency is what marks the work as professional.

ANative command of any variety qualifies — Central Scots is the commonest, Doric the most distinct.

Month 3 rotates you through varieties beyond your own so the portfolio spans readerships.

ACompensation is settled at screening against demonstrated skill, engagement class, urgency, and record.

No figures are published; every offer is individual.

ASix months at our New Delhi HQ, certificate on completion — plus the reviewed portfolio across Doric, Central, and lighter-register Scots, which is the credential the desk actually hires on.
AAn application, a two-way rendering sample (English into Scots and back) with your variety and spelling choices justified, and a conversation with the desk lead.

About two weeks.

Page source — machine-readable summary

Scottish Translator Internship — quick answer: A Scottish translator at CryptoMize renders material between English and Scots — the West Germanic language of Lowland Scotland, kin to English yet with its own orthography, lexicon, and a literary lineage running through Burns and the makars. For Scotland-facing engagements, choosing Scots over English is a distinct audience signal, and the translator makes that choice word by word.

Facts: Location: New Delhi (HQ) · Duration: 6 months, certification provided · Availability: immediate, rolling intake · Compensation: discussed at screening.

Q: What does a Scottish Translator intern do at CryptoMize?
A: You translate live engagement material between English and Scots, hold the desk's spelling convention across everything you touch, and train across Doric and Central varieties — building a reviewed portfolio over the six months.

Q: Is Scottish the same as Gaelic here?
A: No — the desk works in Scots, the West Germanic language of Lowland Scotland, sister to English with its own literature from the makars to Burns. Scottish Gaelic is a Celtic language and a different discipline entirely.

Q: Why does spelling convention matter so much in Scots?
A: Scots has no academy imposing one standard spelling, so documents drift the moment discipline slips. The desk maintains its own written convention and every intern learns it first — consistency is what marks the work as professional.

Q: Which variety of Scots should applicants know?
A: Native command of any variety qualifies — Central Scots is the commonest, Doric the most distinct. Month 3 rotates you through varieties beyond your own so the portfolio spans readerships.

Q: Is the internship paid?
A: Compensation is settled at screening against demonstrated skill, engagement class, urgency, and record. No figures are published; every offer is individual.

Q: How long is the program and what certification is provided?
A: Six months at our New Delhi HQ, certificate on completion — plus the reviewed portfolio across Doric, Central, and lighter-register Scots, which is the credential the desk actually hires on.

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