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Fitting Into a Niche
Fitting Into a Niche
If you want to be successful in your job or career, you have to fit into a niche. This has always been true, about any job. There may be quite a few niches available to you in a particular profession or vocation, or not that many. I found out that this is true about translators as well, or at least about this translator. What’s more, I also realized a long time ago that the characteristics of a…
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Poetry and Order Is What Gets Found In Translation
Poetry and Order Is What Gets Found In Translation
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Robert Frost Of course, much more is lost in translation, although some things that are gained through translation would be lost forever without it. The meaning of what was said or written in language to people who don’t know that particular language, which in every case is the majority of people on this planet, for starters. But it is true…
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Did Machine Translation Finally Killed Translators Like Myself?
Did Machine Translation Finally Killed Translators Like Myself?
Did Machine Translation Finally Killed Translators Like Myself As Was Gleefully Predicted by Some Commenters Already some 15 Years Ago on My Blog? I thought that it might do that soon, I really did, the arguments of MT enthusiasts seemed convincing, although I tried to counter them with my defense of, basically common sense, or human brain. Common sense was telling me that machines will never be…
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Seven Existential Concerns of Highly Miserable Translators
Seven Existential Concerns of Highly Miserable Translators
Let’s face it, many translators are not exactly carefree, happy-go-lucky dudes and dudettes, eternally optimistic and blithely unconcerned about the future. For the most part they are very serious and rather somber individuals, who often wear the typical “translator’ s scowl” on their faces because they are highly distrustful of the dangerous world around them (and who might have a propensity to…
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The Incredibly Stupid World Makes Me Glad I Am Too Old to Care
The Incredibly Stupid World Makes Me Glad I Am Too Old to Care
2020 will go down in history as the year of the mildest pandemic in the last 2,000 years. It’s demonstrably true. Even those of us who tend to believe the BS that we are being fed on daily basis by mainstream media, and there are fewer and fewer of them among us, probably know in their heart of hears that something is wrong with the numbers of “positive cases” that the mainstream media is…
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2020 Is Such a Weird Number for a Year!
2020 Is Such a Weird Number for a Year!
Wouldn’t you agree? It is an uncommon number, for counting years, anyway. The last time we had a very similar number to the one we have now was 1010, which was a very long time ago, basically still in the early Middle Ages, and the next one would be 3030.
But after relatively peaceful and almost idyllic Middle Ages (compared to our times), we managed to screw up our world so perfectly that it…
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How to Move Yourself and Your Translation Business to Another Country without Too Many Hassles
How to Move Yourself and Your Translation Business to Another Country without Too Many Hassles
It has been two years since I did what I put in the title of my post today. People who follow my silly blog regularly may remember that after I moved, I was kind of running out of steam and inspiration when I was asking whether I…
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Human Translator’s Survival Guide to The 21st Century For at least the last twenty years, I have been told that translators, including myself, will be replaced by machine translation within a decade because machine translation that is almost indistinguishable from human translation is just around the corner.
The New Normal for my Patent Translation Business in the Age of Corona Virus Hysteria Is Not Too Bad
The New Normal for my Patent Translation Business in the Age of Corona Virus Hysteria Is Not Too Bad
Somewhat to my surprise, my small patent translation business is doing quite well, definitely much better than I thought it would, given the big changes in my life over the last three years, including the fact that officially I have been retired for three years now.
After being married for 34 years to the same person, I…
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I think the virus caught up me in mid February
I think the virus caught up me in mid February
I think the virus caught up with me in mid February of this year, devastated me pretty bad and stayed with me for most of the week. I cannot really be sure about it, although I see in my trusty Letts of London diary that shortly after that I cancelled a Japanese lesson that I was supposed to give to two students because I did…
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Human Translation in the Age of Machine Translation
Human Translation in the Age of Machine Translation
I have been writing on the topic of machine translation and how MT is likely or unlikely to influence human translation for a very long time now. This was one of the subjects that I used to discuss endlessly with many commenters on my silly blog for more than ten years now. But even before I published my first post on my blog, I used to write among other subjects about machine translation for…
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The Dangers of Sedentary Lifestyle Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
The translating community is abuzz with what is called the dangers of sedentary lifestyle.
It seems that translators are buying in droves a special desk that makes it possible to type and work in front of a computer while standing up. Hmm…..
Based on my informal research conducted secretly on social media, especially Facebook,…
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You Are Young and Dumb, I’m an Old Cow!
There is an old Czech song by Voskovec and Werich from the nineteen thirties about a young donkey who is being coached by an “Uncle Ox” and an equally mature and even more experienced “Auntie Cow”. In the old song the bovine relatives of the young donkey explain to the inexperienced newbie the best strategy for achieving…
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Living in a Scary World of Bad and Boring Science-Fiction Movies
I’ve loved, I’ve laughed and cried I’ve had my fill, my share of losing And now, as tears subside I find it all so amusing To think I did all that And may I say, not in a shy way Oh, no, oh, no, not me, I did it my way For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught To say the things he truly feels And not the words of one who kneels The record shows I took the blows And did it my way Ye…
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10-Year Anniversary of My Silly Blog Interrupted by a Worldwide Pandemic
The only kind of people who get rich while working in public office are criminals.
Harry Truman
WordPress congratulated me a few days ago on the ten-year anniversary of my blog. During the 10 years that my blog has been in existence, I wrote 763 posts (including this one) and I’ve had about 10,000 comments (2 of them are…
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If Necessity Is Mother Of Invention, Simplicity Is Father of Common Sense
If Necessity Is Mother Of Invention, Simplicity Is Father of Common Sense
As I keep reading about nifty and inexpensive accounting software and translation management software packages, perfectly integrating the workflow of tasks and invoices in a small translation business, which are developed with small translation enterprises in mind and cost only a few hundred dollars for a yearly subscription, I…
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Wise Warrior Avoids the Battle
Wise Warrior Avoids the Battle
(I borrowed the title of my post today from The Art of War by Sun Tsu, a book written by a Chinese general, military strategist, writer and philosopher, 544-496 BC).
I sometime receive requests to quote a price for a patent translation from all kinds potential customers, some of them a little shady. That is I either…
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