featuring musings about my life and the translation industry
Sorry about the duplicate cartoon. I guess I must have REALLY liked it. Here’s another one to make up for it… Don’t you wish you could say this to some of the authors of the texts we translate?
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I am a full-time German to English translator. This blog is my creative outlet to share my knowledge and random musings. Despite the title of my blog, I am generally available for translation work – even if there might be a delay of a few days. You can contact me at gertoeng AT jill-sommer.com.
Musings from an overworked translator
I wish I could say this to many-many clients! I’m still trying to figure a polite manner cos sooner or later I’ll run out of patience:-)
I have a whole bag of superfluous commas gleaned from editing assignments for onward transmission to the woman currently depicted cradling a clump of black space.
I see that I was all out of Ns when I posted my comment. I have now found one: “black” to be amended to read “blank”. 🙂
Reblogged this on Traduzioni e altre storie and commented:
Direi che non c’è niente da aggiungere!