# Scottish Translator Internship at CryptoMize 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. 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. ## Facts - Location: New Delhi (HQ), CDR Building, Chhatarpur - Type: 6-month internship, certification provided - Availability: immediate, rolling intake (always hiring) - Compensation: discussed at screening ## What you will actually do - 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 ## Skills - Native or near-native command of written Scots - Orthographic consistency under a house convention - Variety sensitivity — Doric, Insular, Central, Southern, Ulster Scots - Density calibration across the Scots-to-English continuum - English source analysis for meaning before wording - Literary register awareness from the makar tradition - Honest flagging of untranslatable concepts - Documented self-review before markup - Research habit for regional lexicon - Cultural judgment on when Scots is the right choice at all - Deadline discipline across a live queue - Care with heritage-sensitive community material ## Tools - Phrase as the CAT environment with Scots-language memories - Desk orthographic convention document (the house spelling line) - Concise Scots Dictionary and Scots Language Centre references - Xbench-style QA pass on convention drift - Variety-tagged glossary workspace shared with the desk ## Questions and answers ### What does a Scottish Translator intern do at CryptoMize? 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. ### Is Scottish the same as Gaelic here? 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. ### Why does spelling convention matter so much in Scots? 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. ### Which variety of Scots should applicants know? 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. ### Is the internship paid? Compensation is settled at screening against demonstrated skill, engagement class, urgency, and record. No figures are published; every offer is individual. ### How long is the program and what certification is provided? 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. ### What does selection involve? An 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. Apply: https://cryptomize.com/careers/internship/apply/