Friday, January 27, 2012

11 Mina's laws of translation

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11 comments:

  1. CrisJanuary 27, 2012 at 9:59 AM

    Mina is too optimistic, yesterday my Crados 2011 trashed 7 times!

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 27, 2012 at 10:03 AM

    So so true, Crados will ALWAYS crash just before the deadline!

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  3. Mykhailo VoloshkoJanuary 27, 2012 at 10:31 AM

    Hehe, these are laws of today. Unless you use QEQOM and deal with respectable clients.

    How old is Mina? She might have lived with other translators before? :)

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  4. The Intercultural KitchenJanuary 27, 2012 at 10:38 AM

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  5. The Intercultural KitchenJanuary 27, 2012 at 10:40 AM

    Hahaha!

    First point on the Crados Manual should be: "For security reasons, we strongly recommend you to make a backup of your work before planning to do following procedures:
    - when you go get yourself a cup of coffee
    - if you need to go to the toilet
    - if you are going to look away through the window for more than two minutes
    - if you're planning to go to bed (and actually sleep) at night

    ;-)

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    1. StellrayFebruary 4, 2012 at 9:34 AM

      Thanks, Noema! I'm going to put this into my manual on Crados:)

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  6. efoJanuary 27, 2012 at 10:49 AM

    This is why we don't use crados but cemoQ :-D

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  7. PalomaverdeJanuary 27, 2012 at 11:01 AM

    Mina is right about the scanned pdfs: We just had a real-world translation project at university, and more than half of the documents were "handwritten pdfs". ...

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  8. Maxim ManzhosinJanuary 27, 2012 at 1:11 PM

    I have used Crados since version 5.5, translated several million words in it — without a single crash. What am I doing wrong? ;)

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  9. Judy Jenner and Dagmar JennerJanuary 27, 2012 at 6:20 PM

    Awesome, a strip starring our favorite character: Mina the turtle! Too funny, thanks. Yes, PDFs are quite tough. We have a 20% surcharge for editing PDFs, and it's amazing how quickly the customer will come up with an editable document. :)

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