Friday, January 27, 2012

11 Mina's laws of translation

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11 comments:

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

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

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

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

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  7. 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. 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. 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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