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I think I first noticed it being used some years ago, overwhelmingly by technocrats, scientists and the like, groups that are typically seen as poor communicators (however unjust that migh
I had a Java error with Termbase and Studio 2011 a few months back; this sorted it out; navigate to:
http://kb.sdl.com/kb/?articleId=5589#tab:ho meTab:crumb:7:artId:5589
look in the
"This being 2015, there should never be anything about a computer that would need to be fixed."
Does anyone else here suffer from the plague that is Flash? Whatever I do it seems to be<
Could this help:
works with update 31. Navigate to:
http://kb.sdl.com/kb/?articleId=5589#tab:ho meTab:crumb:7:artId:5589
look in the far right hand column for:
Re-sign
I don't get this at all.
Structurally, even when it's constructed "he will", the English has nothing intrinsically futuristic about it. If you analyse it to the core, it conveys no more t
Hi Filipa,
I decided to do a bit more digging through the forums here after my earlier exasperation.
I have now edited my earlier post to contain a fix which works for me with STUDIO
have found it I think, works with update 31. Navigate to:
http://kb.sdl.com/kb/?articleId=5589#tab:ho meTab:crumb:7:artId:5589
look in the far right hand column for:
Re-si
When adding a term to an open Termbase while editing/translating (using F2/Ctrl-F2) it would be handy for the way that I work if one of the fields e.g. "source" were automatically populate
No discussion on offensive matter is ever complete without a reference to the leading English style guide for proper oral etiquette and verbal good manners:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
This is what the discussion usually returns to. In the case of translation there are none. Over time more and more people have come to realise this, especially with the neo-libs trumpeting
but HasBean do some cracking roasts to order online and I've a hometown favourite in Climpson and Sons.
Someone crank up the Moka Express I need a double !
...cannot work as a translator? Difficult to know where to start in exposing the illogicality of this request. It sounds like internal bureaucracy for its own sake. Might be more sinister
Thanks to some enlightened clients I can often quote this way. I start with a rough wordcount, mull over the risk, add or even subtract (gasp) premiums here and there for workload, deadlin
I had a wax tablet, or to be precise an Amstrad PCW in the late 1980s which was later actually useable to transfer files via BBS or Odyssey and even squirt text into early QuarkXpress via
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
In academic texts and elsewhere it's now considered normal to write "BCE" and "CE" where once those old terms were the norm.
Has anyone else encountered thi
Thanks to forum search there's no need for me to post my new topic on the hairy topic of back translation.
Before reading I was bursting with judgments on the topic; after reading I haven
...have a truly fixed rate that's non-negotiable? If you are one of those who says "no discounts" would you by the same token say "no premiums"?
I agree that the economies of scale in tra
There are some paradoxes or at least contradictions here. I tend to believe that in the west we will have to make more of our wealth from knowledge-based industries and that university
The agents you are talking to do not wish to rent to anyone self-employed, not just translators and others who typically work from home. No regular income backed by PAYE evidence = no dice
Should that read thirty to forty thousand words? I can imagine a retainer arrangement with company X for you as a freelancer to cover any number of words, negotiated in such a way as to le
...where to draw the line on the extent your alterations?
Simple sanity check - what did you agree to under your contract for the job?
If alterations were included then make the alte
[quote]Anna Sarah Krämer Fazendeiro wrote:
I see from the answers that only a small percentage of collegues actually use it. I would be interested to hear from those how it improves thei
... drop me a line, my accountant runs a small outfit and has been dealing with various members of my family for many years. Uncomplicated approach, honest advice, reasonable fees and deal
I believe I have seen standard "STOP" signs in several EU countries. Having thought about the significance of my observation for probably several seconds, maybe more, I have concluded that
Hi all
can anyone help please with some questions on the October SDL promotion.
1. The promotion stays open until 50 units are reserved, but does the promo run beyond 25/10 until 50 are
Nothing is cheap in this field. Still less free. For that 'client' one paragraph would be too much.
But OK, you only said you'd look at it not deliver anything.
You won't be letting your
... I use a three-column spreadsheet cell A1 = date A2 = hyperlink to the scanned or otherwise stored doc A3 = a string of keywords that I type in relating to the doc. Search using Ctrl-F
... taking bald stats. If, for sake of argument, the world can boast one million working translators, each can dream of an income of 33k USD per year. But does anyone know how many wor
...that's only because my one negative contribution would probably not cause their rating to plummet anywhere near zero. More importantly, keep trying to secure your dues. It's bad enough<
To me that sounds like the perfect outcome - nice meal, couple of bottles of wine and no hard feelings.
Try to encourage them without breaking the terms imposed by their legal suits.
Goo
Before doing any work for any agent or individual, be sure that they understand and unequivocally agree to comply with your terms and conditions; both sides should publish conditions at th
You could if necessary download your TM and retranslate the document locally, if the document really refuses to download.
I am gradually getting the hang of Anywhere which I am using to
Hi Red5
by now you'll understand what some people have to do to get established, if you take the plunge your experience of that process might come close to some of the stories (working ac
IR35 can seem like a bear trap in wait for people in your situation, however it was/is most often used and with varying success to target one-man limited companies set up as an avoidance p
[quote]Jørgen Madsen wrote:
Have others noticed this and does this mistake occur often? [/quote]
Why do I notice it? Not really sure, but perhaps there are more instances of e.g. in
A colleague of mine converts the text of his address into an uneditable graphic format and embeds the graphic; because it isn't a piece of text the robots can't recognise it as an address.
...and on the side, I'd do the production design too (that part I'd do unpaid).
What's the appeal? I think the text of a play is needed before the event can be made to happen, unlike a
I and my partner have certain recurring topics so we tend to keep everything. Our rough-and-ready CD backup routine has worked OK and got us through a couple of irretrievable hard disk dis
There is no QA standard that demands that suppliers must provide free samples. If a company makes the provision of free samples a condition of doing business, then that is a matter of comp
Cook/bake a lot of your favourite foods then load up the freezer – when the big project hits you, at least you’ll be able to eat well.
If you often wish you had more time for the ci
Heard about the flight this morning. Good effort all round and certainly a tougher challenge than beating the Aussies at home :). It prompted me to look up some half-remembered astronaut
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