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Monday, June 30, 2025

English impressions - real or TV reality?

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  I have no first-hand knowledge of England. My short jaunt to London during my tour of Europe some 45 years ago is irrelevant. On the other...
Monday, June 23, 2025

War and freelancing

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  At the moment I am writing this post, the inhabitants of several countries face intensive and random bombing. Those attacked include Ukrai...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Text-book perfection – in search of a QA panacea for revising long texts

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  Long translations pose special problems for translators. The intensive process involved in translating a long legal document or multipage ...
Monday, June 2, 2025

Conferences and marketing

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  For whatever personal growth and pleasure attending a professional conference may bring, it is not entirely clear to what degree they just...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Devised device names – a tri-lingual look at appliances

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Innovative products require descriptive names. In practice, languages use completely different roots to describe the same technology. As an ...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Eighty (well – ten) ways to leave your class behind – proven methods of losing your class’s attention

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  I do know something about teaching. With more than 30 years of experience teaching mainly in college but also at junior and senior high sc...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Question anyone? – What translators should ask and translation buyers should provide

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  It can be said that wisdom is a certain lack of certainty. One of the characteristics of truly professional translators is that they ask q...