The Société Française des Traducteurs recently announced the program for the fifth session of its Université d'été de la traduction financière, a three-day conference for financial and corporate translators (or translators who would like to specialize in those areas). This year's session will be … [Read more...] about Summer conference for financial translators
Misspelled words I'm tired of seeing
Like many translators and other word people, I have a low tolerance for spelling, grammar and punctuation errors in print. Thankfully it's not just me; when I took a series of editing classes with Alice Levine a couple of years ago, she opened the class with a New Yorker cartoon (you don't even need … [Read more...] about Misspelled words I'm tired of seeing
Switching to a nettop
Desktop PCs are generally intended to last two to five years, so when my desktop turned seven I started to worry. It's a great computer (home-built using D.J. Bernstein's standard workstation specifications), but it's getting a little slow, it sounds like a 747 taking off when it boots up, the front … [Read more...] about Switching to a nettop
Hot off the press…
Two pieces of breaking news from the translation trenches: Judy and Dagmar Jenner's book The Entrepreneurial Linguist is now available for purchase. Judy is not only a very successful freelance translator but also has an MBA in marketing, and this book offers "the business school approach to … [Read more...] about Hot off the press…
Some interesting links
Some coffee break reading from the translation/word industry blogosphere: Paula Dieli over at Essential Project Management has a great post on creative ways to save money in times of crisis. Paula reports that her local translators' association is saving $1,000 and a lot of paper by using … [Read more...] about Some interesting links