(Almost) Wordless Wednesday January 30, 2013
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We can do magic… January 29, 2013
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One of my German colleagues sent out the following e-mail over one of my listservs about the Perfect Agency in New York with close to a million branch offices (okay, I’m exaggerating a little…)
[translation mine]:
At 5:27 p.m. [Perfect Agency] sent out a query for a legal translation with over 4,000 words with a deadline of 7 p.m.!! After all, we’re magicians!
Oh, Perfect Agency, you have quite the reputation with low rates and tight deadlines, but this one really takes the cake!
(Almost) Wordless Wednesday January 23, 2013
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If I had a dollar for every translator… oh wait January 10, 2013
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“Translator Registration – Become a Verified Translator
To start receiving translation projects from Diamond Translation you need to Verify your account. Once you verify your account, our translators support team will review your application and certify you as a translator and a member of the Diamond Translation Community. If you have a Paypal account you will need to make a $1.00 payment (1 USD) using your account, so we can link your Paypal account to your profile and pay you for the translations (We will refund you those 1 USD along with the payment of your first translation).”
I sincerely hope no one who reads this blog falls for this. Better to miss a chance to work with a new client then to get stuck in an unpleasant situation where you don’t know what’s going on with your sensitive data. There are many other clients out there who seem much more trustworthy
(Almost) Wordless Wednesday January 2, 2013
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(Almost) Wordless Wednesday December 26, 2012
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Uhm, yeah..
(Almost) Wordless Wednesday December 19, 2012
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SDL QuickStart fail December 18, 2012
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I woke up this morning to find I had been added to a group called SDL QuickStart “[a]s a valued new user of SDL Trados Studio 2011.” It is a new online community. Super uncool, SDL! First of all, I don’t use my work e-mail for listservs like this. I have a dedicated listserv. I use an out of office notification for my work e-mail. Members of a listserv like this (685 according to SDL) don’t need to get an out of office message from me every time someone writes the list when I am on vacation. A dedicated e-mail address for groups avoids this problem. Secondly, I would like to make the decision whether or not to join the group – not be automatically added. I received seven e-mails before changing my e-mail notifications to none. SDL, you have a good product, but you can’t just add people to online listservs all willy nilly. You didn’t give me a choice. A better solution would have been to send out one e-mail inviting me to join the group. Huge fail, SDL.
Musings from an overworked translator 