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Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Mar 15, 2019

Interview with an Across user

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After some recent controversies on social media concerning the experience of bearing... uh, working with Across and the sort of translators ...
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Jan 9, 2019

Translating in the trenches....

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The other day I was chatting with a colleague about snarky communications with clients and vendors, and she reminded me of a delightful g...
Aug 22, 2018

The Five Million Euro Translator

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It's always nice when clients understand the value of your work. So I was pleased this morning to receive the following proposal from on...
Aug 22, 2017

A Mox on all their houses!

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Alejandro Moreno-Ramos is a translating electromechanical engineer working from French and English to European Spanish who for years has ...
Jun 24, 2017

Germany needs Porsches! And Microsoft has the Final Solution....

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I hear that Germany is suffering from a shortage of Porsches. Odd, given that the cars are made there and should be readily available, b...
Feb 21, 2015

Veganazis in translation: a fifth column for ISIS?

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The Translation Conference Organizer's Final Confession First they asked for kosher food and separate plates, and I gave it to them...
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Apr 20, 2014

New Frontiers in Electroconvulsive Translation

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Linguistic Sausage Providers and corporate commodity traders have struggled for years to come to grips with the shocking persistence of tran...
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Mar 16, 2014

thebogword stands for tradition! Like droit du seigneur.

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After the unfair parodical attacks by piratical parrots like Yours Truly, thebogword , in consultation with the MoJ, Capita and other agents...
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Aug 2, 2013

About your defective translation....

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Dear Mr. Svenson,  Thank you for the timely delivery of your translation which we acknowledge herewith. It was not easy to find some...
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Jul 17, 2013

The Translators of Lal Bagh

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One afternoon, the CEO of The Pig Turd was riding in his limousine when he saw two men along the road-side eating grass. Disturb...
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Tough times in the sty...

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We are writing to advise you that The Pig Turd is to amend the fees it pays to translators. This will bring The Pig Turd into line with ...
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Jun 27, 2012

21 lucky translators can't pass this one up, surely?

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From: Ricky Ricardo To: (a list of 21 lucky sworn translators in the Berlin area) Subject: Translation order for ENG - Ricky Ricardo H...
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Jan 30, 2012

A sermon from Ede

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Last September the Association of Translation Agencies (ATA) in the Netherlands hosted a one-day conference entitled " The Future is He...
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Sep 8, 2011

New joint venture for enterprise language services

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(Oranienburg) Industry experts were surprised today as leading companies announced a bold new cooperative language services initiative. Soyl...
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Sep 7, 2011

Mao's Revenge

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That e-mail like that shown above is perhaps offering me some irresistible bargain on an herbal Viagra alternative made of rhino horn or mo...
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Sep 4, 2011

Amazing rates

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Sometimes, contrary to the frequently cited rule, collective intelligence is indeed greater than the sum of its parts. Networking with colle...
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Jun 25, 2011

Laughing at ourselves in Mox's world

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In ancient times when I was a college student, there were two popular cartoons in the free papers around Los Angeles that succinctly describ...
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Apr 22, 2011

A medley of mischief

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I don't know how many readers pay attention to the somewhat neglected links in the navigation bar of this blog; I myself often forget wh...
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