📅 Translation events from December 27 to January 2:

December 30
🇺🇸 XTM: webinar Subcontracting in XTM Cloud

#usefullinks #conferences #webinars

📅 Translation events from January 10 to January 16:

January 10
🇺🇸 NOTIS: webinar Translating Food
🇺🇸 Sophie Llewellyn Smith: conference TerpSummit 2022: Confidence Camp (January 10–12)

January 11
🇺🇸 ATA: webinar Business Entity Planning for Freelance Translators and Interpreters in the US

January 12
🇺🇸 ProZ: webinar 5 Mindset Shifts to Take Your Translation Business to the Next Level (Free Webinar)
🇺🇸 XTM: webinar Language Quality Assurance – LQA

January 13
🇺🇸 ATA: webinar Translator and Interpreter Branding Through Storytelling: Optimizing Client Testimonials
🇺🇸 Memsource: webinar Introduction to Memsource for Project Managers

January 14
🇪🇸 CIOL: webinar Traducción y Locución

#usefullinks #conferences #webinars

🖇 Word remembers where you edited your document recently

When working on a huge document in Word, sometimes you need to return to the place where you edited the text recently. By bad fortune, this place in most cases appears to be beyond the screen, and you have to scroll the document up or down and seek for it, losing your time.

Word is packed with useful commands and shortcuts, and, of course, there is a special shortcut for returning to a place of the last editing. Here it is: SHIFT + F5.

Feature #1: Word remembers five last places of editing, so pressing SHIFT + F5 again “scrolls” you through them.

Feature #2: SHIFT + F5 works in all recent versions of Word: 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016.

Feature #3: Even if you close the document and open it again, Word still remembers where the cursor was put earlier and returns it there!

#tips #word #keycombinations #shortcuts

📅 Translation events from January 17 to January 23:

January 18
🇺🇸 IT&I: webinar Getting started in patent translation
🇺🇸 RWS: webinar How to manage and share your terminology in the cloud
🇺🇸 RWS: webinar Transform team translation with Trados Live Team
🇺🇸 XTM: webinar XTM Portal

January 19
🇺🇸 ATA: webinar Working with Terminology in memoQ
🇺🇸 GALA: Client SIG - January 2022 Unconference
🇺🇸 memoQ: webinar Hello, memoQ 9.10!
🇺🇸 RWS: webinar Using machine translation (MT) in Trados Studio and Trados Live

January 20
🇺🇸 GALA: webinar The Great MT Reckoning Dawn 2022
🇺🇸 Lionbridge: webinar How to Assess Your Company’s Global Digital Experience
🇺🇸 RWS: webinar Reasons to teach translation with our new Trados cloud-based technology – for universities
🇺🇸 WLUK: webinar Who wants to be a vendor manager?

#usefullinks #conferences #webinars

📅 Translation events from January 24 to January 30, 2022:

January 25
🇺🇸 Consoltec: webinar FlowFit-memoQ : The seamless integration
🇺🇸 RWS: webinar How a CAT tool can help you
🇺🇸 XTM: webinar XTM Connect Series: WordPress

January 26
🇺🇸 BeLazy: webinar Automating Software Localization with Integrations in BeLazy
🇺🇸 GALA: MTPE Training SIG January 2022: Guidelines for Managing Post-Editors' Ergonomics
🇺🇸 RWS: webinar Getting started with Trados Live Essential: the cloud companion to Trados Studio 2021
🇺🇸 Slator: webinar Slator Design Thinking Webinar | Video On Demand
🇺🇸 University of Portsmouth: webinar Digital Taylorism in the Translation Industry
🇺🇸 XTM: webinar AI in 2022: Real Progress Towards a Tech Democracy

January 27
🇺🇸 Amplexor: webinar How to achieve fast and efficient upgrades
🇺🇸 CIOL: webinar Journey to Russia with Gloucestershire Network
🇺🇸 ProZ: webinar Fearless Direct Client Marketing
🇺🇸 Slator: webinar Slator Managing Change Workshop
🇺🇸 WhP: webinar How To Go Agile With Your Software Localization

January 28
🇺🇸 Griffin Poetry Prize: webinar Translation Talks: Khaled Mattawa and Sarah Riggs
🇺🇸 HTDC Innovate Hawaii: webinar Internationalization to Japan: Product Localization
🇺🇸 RusTrans: webinar Motherhood, Translation and Censorship in Eastern European Women’s Writing
🇺🇸 WLLA: webinar What the Loc? Leadership in Localization

January 29
🇺🇸 UA National Center for Interpretation: webinar Sight Translation and Simultaneous Interpreting: Techniques & Skills (LN)

#usefullinks #conferences #webinars

📅 Translation events from January 31 to February 6, 2022:

January 31
🇺🇸 RWS: webinar A beginner's guide to Trados Studio 2021

February 1
🇺🇸 ProZ: webinar A comprehensive marketing framework to attract your ideal clients, raise your rates, grow your income, and market consistently
🇺🇸 techforword: webinar Time-saving tricks for translators and interpreters

February 2
🇺🇸 JNCL-NCLIS: conference Virtual Language Advocacy Days 2022: Language at the Intersection (February 2–4)
🇺🇸 WKGC: webinar Globalization Strategy Handbook Explained

February 3
🇺🇸 CBCP: webinar Read the World: Picture Books and Translation
🇺🇸 IT&I: webinar Identifying and dealing with source language interference

#usefullinks #conferences #webinars

👸🏼 Mary Norris, the Comma Queen

Mary Norris, a copy editor for The New Yorker, shares her thoughts on whether it is necessary to add the possessive case ending ’s to English nouns ending in s or whether adding an apostrophe is enough. Should one write Hercules’ or Hercules’s? Descartes’ or Descartes’s?

This is no idle issue for Mary. She is not only a linguist; by some quirk of fate, her own last name ends in s. Norris’ or Norris’s?

Mary Norris has been working at The New Yorker since as far back as 1978. Due to her thoroughness and diligence, she has been dignified with the title of the Comma Queen. There is even a separate article about her on Wikipedia.

Mary Norris also has her own playlist on the YouTube channel of The New Yorker with an obvious name—Comma Queen.

#grammar #wikipedia #english #youtube

📅 Translation events from February 7 to February 13, 2022:

February 8
🇺🇸 ATA: webinar How to Prepare Top-Notch Translation Project Quotes
🇺🇸 RWS: webinar What about a career in translation?
🇺🇸 XTM: webinar Successful Customer Onboarding with XTM Aligner

February 9
🇺🇸 Acclaro: webinar LocLife™ — Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
🇺🇸 ALC: conference 10th Annual UnConference (offline, February 9–12)
🇺🇸 RWS: webinar How a CAT tool can help you

February 10
🇺🇸 GALA: webinar Wordbee Link for InDesign - Agility Redefined
🇪🇸 Impel: webinar Translating your Culture with Impel
🇺🇸 IT&I: webinar What can translators and interpreters do about climate change?
🇺🇸 NOTIS: webinar Translation & Interpretation Information Session
🇺🇸 ProZ: webinar Meeting clients at ProZ.com
🇺🇸 ProZ: webinar Editing and Proofreading for Translators
🇺🇸 XTM: webinar XTM Connect Series: Drupal 8

February 11
🇺🇸 Nimdzi: webinar CONSPIRACIES in localization - a measured response
🇺🇸 RWS: webinar A beginner's guide to Trados Studio 2021

February 12
🇺🇸 Arcos: course Interpreting for Oncology (Winter 2022), part 1

#usefullinks #conferences #webinars

📅 Translation events from February 14 to February 20, 2022:

February 14
🇺🇸 VRHP: webinar How much is too much for sight translation in interpreting?

February 15
🇺🇸 ATA: webinar Vicarious Trauma and Language Professionals
🇺🇸 GALA: meeting Membership Office Hours
🇺🇸 Memsource: webinar Introduction to Memsource for Project Managers
🇺🇸 Lionbridge: webinar Intrinsic Inclusion™ Rebooting Your Biased Brain
🇺🇸 Weglot: webinar Is Machine Translation Ready for Marketing Teams?
🇺🇸 XTM: webinar XTM Mobile – What’s New

February 16
🇺🇸 ALC: conference 10th Annual UnConference (virtual, February 16–17)
🇺🇸 Birmingham Indies: webinar Andrew Fray - Lost For Words: Localisation 101
🇺🇸 GALA: meeting Client SIG February 2022 Meeting: i18n
🇺🇸 BYU Center for Language Studies: webinar Editing/Publishing Meets Localization/Translation (Panel Discussion)
🇺🇸 RWS: webinar Creating translation projects in Trados Studio and Trados Live

February 17
🇺🇸 Meeting 6th Virtual Loclunch UK Newmarket/Guildford
🇺🇸 ProZ: webinar The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Localization
🇺🇸 RWS: webinar An introduction to Trados’s terminology solutions
🇺🇸 University of York: webinar Localisation from an international big picture perspective
🇺🇸 WLMIIS: webinar Virtual Borrel - share your favorite localization-related resources
🇺🇸 WLMIIS: webinar Stand Out From The Crowd: Preparing for a Successful Job Search

February 18
🇺🇸 CTS: webinar Interpreting via video link in legal settings: a post-pandemic overview

February 19
🇺🇸 Arcos: course Interpreting for Oncology (Winter 2022), part 2

#usefullinks #conferences #webinars

🦠 The next Microsoft Office update will block VBA macros in the included apps.

This is good news because lots of VBA viruses are transmitted via macros. But if you use add-ins that operate through macros (TransTools, CodeZapper, Translation Workspace, etc.) in your work, they may need separate permissions.

In Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, the macro operation mode is set with checkboxes in the menu:

File → Options → Trust Center → Trust Center Settings... → Macro Settings

Have a look right now: the Disable all macros with notification box must be checked by default.

#programsfortranslators

📅 Translation events from February 21 to February 27, 2022:

February 22
🇺🇸 Büro b3: webinar Quality Evaluation of Termbases
🇺🇸 Comma Press: conference Manchester in Translation 2022 (February 22–24)
🇺🇸 Сonference Innovation in Interpreting Summit (February 22–24)
🇺🇸 ITA: conference ITA 2022 Conference (February 22–23)
🇺🇸 RWS: webinar ELIA Insights: cloud working in today's translation industry

February 23
🇺🇸 BeLazy: webinar XTRF + BeLazy: An automation feast!
🇺🇸 Comma Press: webinar Fight Between the Lines: Translation as Literary Activism
🇺🇸 GALA: webinar MTPE Training SIG February 2022: The Gold Standard for Post-Editing Training - From University to Final Buyer
🇺🇸 RWS: webinar Using machine translation (MT) in Trados Studio and Trados Live
🇺🇸 XTM: webinar Converting translation data into business intelligence with XTM

February 24
🇺🇸 Comma Press: webinar Found in Translation: Translation as an autonomous creative practice
🇺🇸 EASE: webinar Quality of research content in journals - Ukraine Chapter webinar
🇺🇸 GALA: webinar Africa: The Last Frontier. Challenges and Opportunities
🇺🇸 Memsource: webinar What are MT Glossaries?
🇺🇸 ProZ: webinar An Introduction to Voiceover including how to set up a home studio
🇺🇸 University of Portsmouth: webinar The Basics of Writing - Your audience
🇺🇸 XTM: webinar AI in Localization: Finding Value in the Spaces in Between

February 25
🇺🇸 NOTIS: webinar The Lives and Labors of Professional Translators and Interpreters

February 26
🇺🇸 CIOL: webinar Translating the Present into the Future

#usefullinks #conferences #webinars

​​Eyewitness Accounts

News updates can be truly horrifying these days. Still, the more fortunate of us—those residing far from Ukraine and having no friends or relatives here—manage to shrug this off as some kind of propaganda, or just a bad dream, or whatever. 

Personal stories are one of the tools to breach this gap of indifference. In fact, much of our interpreters' and translators' work right now has to do with eyewitness accounts—making them accessible to the global audience. 

Most of the time we are translating the words of others; in my home city, I personally witnessed only one missile attack, and saw the consequences of another. But what if a top-notch interpreter had to experience the all-out turmoil firsthand, e.g. stay in Bucha throughout its occupation? What if they could write a chilling diary straight from the bomb shelter, typing it on a mobile phone thoughtfully hidden from the occupiers?

The fact is, there is such an interpreter, and here is his wartime diary on Medium (impressive text-to-speech available).

Still not sure if he is a real person? I've found a sweet old pic for you: the diary's author, joined by Word4Power and yours truly, sharing remote interpretation experience (before it went mainstream in 2020). Oh, how happy, how careless, and how euphoric our lives were!

Some more eyewitness accounts from people of all walks of life—1,900 and counting—can be found here. As a rule, they are not in English, but Google Translate, our tireless digital colleague, readily helps to get the message across. And if you happen to be from Ukraine, I hope you will find some of these memoirs inspiring, and decide to share your own story, too.

🌎 Linguogeographic notes.

The country of Haiti (🇭🇹) occupies a third of the island of Hispaniola, once called Hayti and still called so in many languages, other than the Romano-Germanic, to the confusion of their speakers. The remaining two-thirds is occupied by the Dominican Republic (🇩🇴), sometimes also called Dominicana. A highly puzzling region..

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and the only independent nation in both Americas where French is the dominant language. In Canada, it is spoken only by 21% of the population. Dominicana is Hispanic and actually doing very well economically. Relations between the countries are quite tense.

Haiti should not be confused with Tahiti, which is located on the other side of the Earth, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and has nothing to do with Haiti (this happens).

And the Dominican Republic needs to be distinguished from Dominica (🇩🇲). They, on the contrary, have a lot in common.

Both of these countries are located in the Antilles at a distance of 900 km from each other. The etymology of their names is the same: both countries are named after Sundays (domingo in Spanish means “Sunday”). But the Sundays were different.

Dominica was discovered by none other than Christopher Columbus on one Sunday in 1493.

And the Dominican Republic was named after its main city, Santo Domingo (translated from Spanish as “Holy Sunday”). The city was also founded by Columbus, but another one—Bartholomew, brother of Christopher, and also on Sunday, but three years later, in 1496.

And one more thing: the Dominicans who are the people of the Dominican Republic should not be confused with the Dominicans who are members of the mendicant order founded by Saint Dominic more than four centuries before the Dominican Republic was discovered.

#geography #spanish #french