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| I’m not working on anything for the moment | May 20, 2020 |
I’ve just delivered a small translation FR-PT (350 words) for a regional organization convening its members for a general assembly in June and I’m waiting for a longish project EN-PT (11,000 words)…
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Angus Stewart 
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:15
French to English
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| I’m not working on anything for the moment | May 20, 2020 |
I haven't had any work since the start of the month and I can only surmise that the coronavirus is the explanation for the downturn in demand.
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| Same as every year | May 20, 2020 |
Currently on my desk: an annual report, some annual accounts, an annual supervision report, the agenda for an annual general meeting.
I'm sure there's a theme in there somewhere.
Regular jobs rock.
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 02:15
Spanish to English
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I'm currently translating software strings for my EDI client, which I've been doing for about 20 years now. However, they are often a bugger to deal with because there is usually a glaring lack of useful context to guide my decisions and there are always things cropping up which require feedback from the client, or someone who knows what things like arcane abbreviations stand for, or whether they should be translated or left as they are, which can vary depending on which country or client compan... See more I'm currently translating software strings for my EDI client, which I've been doing for about 20 years now. However, they are often a bugger to deal with because there is usually a glaring lack of useful context to guide my decisions and there are always things cropping up which require feedback from the client, or someone who knows what things like arcane abbreviations stand for, or whether they should be translated or left as they are, which can vary depending on which country or client company they are aimed at.
So, it's a bit of both; something I am very familiar with, yet which is frustratingly unclear at times. ▲ Collapse
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| I am not working on anything right now | May 20, 2020 |
I just fell down and broke my right arm. Yesterday I had to turn down a 16,000-word translation project from my best client.
[Edited at 2020-05-20 13:47 GMT]
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| Wishing you an early recovery... | May 20, 2020 |
Yetta Jensen Bogarde wrote:
I just fell down and broke my right arm. Yesterday I had to turn down a 16,000-word translation project from my best client. [Edited at 2020-05-20 13:47 GMT]
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IT security stuff, but never easy.
Then more of it, then car interface, then it's Tuesday.
Philippe
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:15
Member (2008)
Italian to English
| The translation I'm working on now is... | May 20, 2020 |
... voluminous and challenging: an academic book written in that mannered Italian that some academics love to use.
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Mervyn Henderson (X)
Spain
Local time: 02:15
Spanish to English
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| Corporate Governance Policy | May 20, 2020 |
A. Barrel. Of. Laughs.
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| I'm not working on a paid translation at the moment | May 20, 2020 |
Today I'm about to finish editing and footnoting my late husband's memoir in Portuguese, which will be published by his university.
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Yaotl Altan
Mexico
Local time: 19:15
Member (2006)
English to Spanish
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I'm translating around 8,000 words about a text about multifunctional panels for the building industry. EN>MX
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Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 22:15
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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| Two uncommon jobs | May 20, 2020 |
I'm working on two jobs that are not common for me, which I don't like very much, but in the situation we are right now, refusing jobs is not advisable.
One is a subtitling job, something I usually avoid. Most of the subtitles have three lines in Portuguese and it's not humanly possible to reduce them to two lines, as the client wants. I know this will be trouble.
The other one is the translation of AutoCad drawings with big area maps with captions. It takes a lot longer to edit, for... See more I'm working on two jobs that are not common for me, which I don't like very much, but in the situation we are right now, refusing jobs is not advisable.
One is a subtitling job, something I usually avoid. Most of the subtitles have three lines in Portuguese and it's not humanly possible to reduce them to two lines, as the client wants. I know this will be trouble.
The other one is the translation of AutoCad drawings with big area maps with captions. It takes a lot longer to edit, format and align the PDF documents than to translate them.
But well... ▲ Collapse
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Amy Brown (X)
United States
Local time: 20:15
Spanish to English
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| Translating Spanish article into British English | May 20, 2020 |
Just got a 2,500-word article about the impact of the crisis on working people and the poor in Ecuador. I do frequent translations for this particular org.
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