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Showing posts with label QA. Show all posts

Showing posts with label QA. Show all posts

Jun 5, 2021

Get better dates with memoQ

There's hope for all those incels stuck with RWS Trados Studio, Memsource, Wordfast, OmegaT and a host of other horrors if they are will...

Jul 21, 2019

"Faulty" memoQ light resource defaults and how to change them

So often in the decade since I began using memoQ, I've felt an undercurrent of irritation at some of the default settings for certain ty...

Nov 26, 2018

memoQ as an instrument of bowdlerization

Recently in a memoQ user forum, someone asked if the environment could be used to ensure that certain words would be kept out of a targe...

May 1, 2018

All-round Translator Terminology Workshop Pre-event Webinar

As previously announced, on June 30th in Amsterdam, the All-round Translator (ART) is offering the workshop " Coming to Terms: Mini...

Mar 14, 2018

Come to Terms in Amsterdam, June 30th

At end of June this year I'll be doing an expanded, in-person reboot of my occasional terminology workshop with new material and wo...

Feb 21, 2018

Double Vision with MS PowerPoint to Check Translations

I learned an interesting thing tonight thanks to David Hardisty , who teaches translation technical skills at Universidade Nova in Lisbon an...

Jun 11, 2017

On a TEUR with German financial translation

Currency expressions occur in great variety in German financial translation, and it is often a great nuisance to type and check the corre...

Mar 23, 2017

First month with SDL Trados 2017

A month ago, when I announced the Great Leap Forward from my rather neglected SDL Trados 2014 license to the latest, presumably greatest ...

Feb 27, 2017

Planning special rules for structured "expressions" and multi-word abbreviations

Translators and editors often deal with what I'll call "structured expressions" or "patterned data" in many forms, w...

Feb 20, 2017

Building a regex-savvy "termbase" in memoQ

For years I have been frustrated by and dissatisfied with how abbreviations are handled in the current memoQ termbase model. The crux of ...

Dec 28, 2016

Go Figure (with memoQ!)

When translating patents, legal briefs, reports, manuals and many other kinds of documents I inevitably encounter figure references to photo...

Dec 15, 2016

Validating Roman numerals in translation QA

The issue of Roman numerals in my translation work has been at the back of my mind for a few years now, but the pain level had not been suc...

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