I'll be traveling abroad for the holidays, and won't be carrying my computer with me, so this is probably my last post for the year....

Many Trados users complain that it is impossible to use most Trados keyboard shortcuts when working on a laptop. Using the mouse to click on...

I have complained in the past of various problems Trados has with fuzzy matches. A particularly insidious one is the way Trados treats Inter...

A good editor is an essential part of a translation team, but working with a bad one may be a nightmare. A good editor must be a good transl...

A couple of interesting quotes from a recent, excellent article (from "The Australian") on new translations of Virgil : "The...

As translators, we are not supposed to work into our second language, only from it. However, we have to write in a foreign language when we ...

Words are the embryos of ideas, the seed of thought, the framework of reasoning, but their contents goes beyond the simple official definiti...

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug” Mark Twain

In the right-hand bar I've added three Technorati charts, to track the relative frequency in blogs of the strings "translation...

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