Continuing from my post of August 25 , some further evidence of just how badly designed the fuzzy matching algorithms are in Trados: So, acc...

I've just received a rather pushy call from an SDL/Trados representative. He wanted to know if I was considering upgrading from Trados 2...

I sometime wonder whether SDL Trados programmers even understand the concept of fuzzy matching, or, if they do, whether they care or have p...

One thing that riles me is the habit many translation companies have of calling us "linguists". According to my dictionaries, a li...

Tautology, according to the Visual Thesaurus , is (among other things), "verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions." For to...

Sometime it's the small things that make a difference. Such as a translation company always sending an acknowledgment whenever we send t...

I was recently contacted by a translation company with a good reputation. They asked us for the usual information, including our rates and o...

LexioPhiles has published a list of the " Top 100 Language Blogs ". The top of the list is dominated by blogs about learning lang...

Corinne McKay has an excellent post on " How to do an acceptable job on a rush job ". I would add a few things: Set a rush rate wi...

Today I received a phone call from an SDL representative: he had seen that I had accessed the SDL site (to download an updated copy of World...