In advance of the ATA conference and all of those e-mail auto-responders being turned on, Wendy Hoover of eLocale sent this link to the CTA list serve. The article, from the BBC's website, tells the woeful tale of a road sign in Wales ("No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only") for … [Read more...] about The trouble with auto-responders
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I want to neglect the remainder of my life with you
At some point, mocking bad machine translation will surely get old (or machine translation will improve to the point that it won't be so funny anymore). But since that point hasn't yet arrived, take a coffee break and hop on over to Jill Sommer's blog for a YouTube video about machine-translated … [Read more...] about I want to neglect the remainder of my life with you
Machine translation has its uses, but…
Thanks to reader (and outstanding colleague!) Jill Sommer for sending the link to this post from the blog "Resumé Hell" (amusing takes on job searching, written by a recruiter), featuring a cover letter produced by an online translation tool. … [Read more...] about Machine translation has its uses, but…
The grass is always greener…
As translators, I think we often feel that we have toughest job in the document workflow; we don't get to choose what to write, but we have to make the translation sound at least as good as the original and deal with issues like cultural connotations, idioms and untranslatable linguistic tricks. On … [Read more...] about The grass is always greener…