Not just a one-trick pony – How job crafting works
An in-house translator may be viewed as a “one-trick pony”. They just translate all the time, right? How non-translation-based activities can help translators to flourish.
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Category: Productivity
Even Homer Nods! How Chinese Walls showed it was good to talk
Even an unintended use of non-inclusive language can demonstrate why it is good to communicate when collaborating with others.
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Comparing Translation to Tetris
Why I have likened translation and being an in-house translator to Tetris.
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Understanding your time/activity sheets: getting more out and analysing them to propose a simplification
Every considered the link between a London taxi and time/activity logging and charging strategies for translators?
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Generating bilingual EUR-LEX web addresses in Python
A little bit of Python code for generating URLs for bilingual versions of EU legal texts in Eur-Lex for subsequent alignment.
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Stripping non-breaking hyphens in Word
While non-breaking hyphens are useful in Word, they are rendered as tags in Trados – which can cause problems with missing tags in the target translation.
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All Quiet on the Translation Front
Did imposter syndrome issues stem from a poor result in a degree module? Handling imposter syndrome and perfectionism as a translator.
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ETUG 2022 – incorporating eTranslation into Trados workflows
The European Commission has an MT tool that is available to public administration agencies and authoriities and EU institutions that can be integrated into Trados workflows
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