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Quote of the day: "Boolean terms pose quite a problem in German." |
The first day went OK, we spent most of the time setting up our
computers. They discovered that they had workstations prepared for us, so we didn't have to use
our laptops at all -- which also were not save because the antivirus programme was
password-protected by SDL's IT department and Windows Automatic Updates doesn't recognise our
operating system because it's not registered... Russ may have something to answer for! LOL
Tomorrow we're supposed to turn up at 8:30, phew!! They do start early and are all very
serious... translators, you know. They all seem very nice though. At lunch time we all went to
the pub together. |
Getty use 2 proprietary tools, one to hierarchically
organise all key terms (as narrow as possible), and one to assign the keywords to the pictures.
For the translation they use SDLX which we at first found very suspicious: How can you enter
multiple synonyms into one segment and benefit from the translation memory software?! But we've
realised now that they use SDLX mainly as a translation interface. They have created a special
script which exports the multiple-translation segments back into their system as separated
entries. Interesting, I'll have to suggest using a script like that next time we get a
non-TM-friendly project! :-) Stephen is offering to send my holiday request off for me, perfect! I think we are aiming at the 13th/14th of March to go to Bristol. It should be the most convenient time. |
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Person of the day: Terumi |
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Good thing of the day: We could take our laptops back to the hotel and now can use them entirely for our private pleasure! |
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Some pictures of Seattle:
Lake Union (view from my hotel window)
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