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Fun with language Guess my pet! Machine malfunction Dear Mailand, thank you for your post. I
understand your grief. These machines never seem
to run out of ways of getting themselves into
trouble and I'm sorry to hear yours caused your
 Eva Straus Feb 21, 2013
Fun with language Guess my pet! [quote]This thread is part of the Translator
playground: a place for translators to have fun,
to network, to learn, and to hone their
translation or linguistic skills. See the
announc 		Eva Straus Feb 19, 2013
Croatian Preminuo Davor Kalinić Sožalje Iskreno sožalje družini in prijateljem. Prerano
se je poslovil. Ohranili ga bomo v lepem spominu. 		Eva Straus Jan 27, 2013
Being independent Do you ignore offers from certain regions? Depends on which market segment they serve I have a couple of clients from China and India
and they pay good rates. Both countries are hugely
enormously vastly big, with millions of companies.
Not all of them lack the business sens 		Eva Straus May 11, 2012
Lighter side of trans/interp Ancient rituals practiced by translators Ancient rituals practiced by translators
(Inspired by something funny I witnessed the
other day.) Never ask a translator what a
certain word means when you're in a hurry. Just
l 		Eva Straus Feb 2, 2011
KudoZ Would you bother answering if the points system were abolished? for-points human translation sure beats free human translation :) [quote]Jerzy Czopik wrote: And there were
times, when external sites linked to KudoZ as
"free human translation". That was and is a very
misleading formulation. But I'm afraid, if we
 Eva Straus Jun 25, 2009
KudoZ Would you bother answering if the points system were abolished? Similar systems work quite well - without points I actively participate in several linguistic
forums and yes, questions do get answered without
anybody getting any points or any other kind of
reward for that matter, ego-points being the 		Eva Straus Jun 25, 2009
Off topic O bella ciao: Una mattina mi son svegliato (problem with "svegliato") Bella Ciao by Modena City Ramblers Dear Lia, I love this song! I wanted to
recommend
this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KjaNPY2OsI
(a particularly haunting version in my
opinion) And this:
http://www.y 		Eva Straus Apr 25, 2009
Business issues A German agency is using my CV, yet I've never worked for them Just another way of abusing personal data Contact the agency immediately and follow the
advice Alex and Tomas gave you. I suggest you
remain polite; there's a (slim) chance there was
some kind of a misunderstanding involved. We 		Eva Straus Mar 2, 2009
Powwows Powwow: Ljubljana - Slovenia Brez izgovorov :D Jaz se ravno selim iz LJ, pa pridem posebej za
naše srečanje nazaj. Res pa ne hodim iz
Zagreba ali Gradca - upam, da vama bo, Žiga in
Marcel, le uspelo. 		Eva Straus Sep 29, 2008
Powwows Powwow: Ljubljana - Slovenia Kaksna moznost prenocitve? Zanima me, ali je mogoče, da bi kdo kolegu iz
tujine ponudil prenočišče v Ljubljani? Nič
še ni gotovega, samo spogleduje se z možnostjo,
da bi uletel iz Nemčije na naše srečanj 		Eva Straus Sep 16, 2008
Powwows Powwow: Ljubljana - Slovenia Šestica, Kaval, kadarkoli po 18.00 Meni je skoraj vseeno, kje in kdaj se dobimo, da
le ne bo prezgodaj. Upam, da nas bo čim več
:) Za organizacijo se ne morem javiti, ker se
ravno selim, bom pa z veseljem malce
pofot 		Eva Straus Sep 16, 2008
Off topic What is your favorite book ever? Couldn't pick one ... so I selected three: 1. Nineteen
Eighty-Four by George Orwell. 2. The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
A trilogy in five parts :) 3. Sadako Will Leben
(T 		Eva Straus Aug 22, 2008
Professional development The Best Working Atmosphere!! That's the way I like it My favourite working environment: Two computers
& three monitors (all mine! nobody touch!), a
large cup of coffee (no snacks though), a huge
bowl of water, a headset, and good music. 		Eva Straus Aug 8, 2008
Off topic Please tell me what you like most/least about the country you live in Slovenia: No survival skills necessary. Likes: 1. People. Friendly, broadminded,
trustworthy, loyal, creative, diligent,
entrepreneurial. 2. Food. I dare you: try to
find a country with better restaurants. I don't
 Eva Straus Aug 4, 2008
Trados support Trados and office 2007 Open MS Word. Then: Tools > Templates and Add-Ins > Templates ... ... and make sure Trados*.dot is checked. This
often does the trick. Good luck! What Jerzy
said; we cross-posted :)

[Edited at
2008-07-14 09:08] 		Eva Straus Jul 14, 2008
Office applications Help - Page Numbering Problem If all else fails: remove all formatting, copy-paste into blank doc I repeat: if all else fails. Sometimes there's so
much hidden formatting you cannot possibly
remove/edit it without going insane. In such cases
it's often better to start
afresh. 		Eva Straus Apr 30, 2008
ProZ.com Translation Contests Votes in the 6th contest EN-RU should be made public (staff: 'maybe next time, not retroactively') ProZ must respect user privacy above all Dear Alexander, I understand your frustration
(though I neither competed nor voted). But I must
agree with Henry on this one. User privacy
must be put before other concerns. In addi 		Eva Straus Apr 14, 2008
KudoZ KudoZ questions posted with insufficient context Agree with Nicole - educate new translators [quote]Nicole Schnell wrote: Educate .... and
help. New colleagues often don't know better.
That's why we call ourselves a community instead
of an ivory tower. [/quote] That needed 		Eva Straus Apr 13, 2008
Trados support PDF file in SDLX? Have the PDF transcribed or OCR-ed Dear Cristina, first ask your client if they
can send you the file that was used to create the
PDF. Judging from what you said it seems highly
likely they have the original Word file ly 		Eva Straus Apr 9, 2008
Slovenian 6th ProZ.com Translation Contest: submission phase is on! Zakaj se Slovenci tega ne gremo? Pogosto hodim gledat, kaj so drugi prevajalci
poslali na tekmovanje, in vidim, da med prispevki
ni nobenega prevoda v slovenščino. Ali so
Slovenci sploh kdaj tekmovali? Nas ne zanima ali 		Eva Straus Apr 3, 2008
Voiceover Voice-over, how much should I charge? Voiceover rates: you have to start somewhere [quote]BAmary wrote: I told him I've never done
it before, but he still wants me to do it.
[/quote] You should charge your normal hourly
rate + studio costs + travel time & expenses 		Eva Straus Apr 3, 2008
ProZ.com suggestions "Contact info hidden" on job postings - am I the only one concerned here? Suggestion: outsourcers can hide their details if they want to [quote]Ralf Lemster wrote: For this reason, I
stopped posting jobs at ProZ.com - given the
recent change, I'm considering posting again.
[/quote] Would you still post jobs if you 		Eva Straus Apr 2, 2008
ProZ.com suggestions "Contact info hidden" on job postings - am I the only one concerned here? Let's hope my poll on recent changes makes it [quote]Assia Terpecheva wrote: As I mentioned
before, the best way to know which opinion
prevails is...to vote it on "quick poll"...or not?
Then we'll know for sure if this change is we 		Eva Straus Mar 28, 2008
ProZ.com suggestions "Contact info hidden" on job postings - am I the only one concerned here? Already expressed my reservations about hiding outsourcer details See this thread: www.proz.com/topic/99952 - as you
probably won't want to read through the whole
thing I'd like to highlight this point
specifically: [quote] 2. Sometimes
transla 		Eva Straus Mar 27, 2008
Off topic What kind of people's behavior annoys you the most? Don't get me started: native language(s) on ProZ profiles Actually tried to do my best to ignore this thread
but it's way too compelling. I'm drawn to it like
a moth to a flame. It's official: I'm weak
:D You know what really grinds my gears? 		Eva Straus Mar 26, 2008
ProZ.com bugs My Visitors tab only shows today's visits She promises to bookmark www.proz.com/support [quote]Ralf Lemster wrote: Hi Eva, Have a look
at
[url]http://www.proz.com/support[/url]: [quote]
Due to the technical problems with the Visitors
tab feature, these numbers ha 		Eva Straus Mar 24, 2008
ProZ.com bugs My Visitors tab only shows today's visits I don't see anybody else inquiring about this
matter so maybe it's affecting my profile only.
Anyway, my Visitors tab has been misbehaving
for the last few days. It only shows the last 		Eva Straus Mar 24, 2008
ProZ.com: Translator Coop Job poster contact information will be shown exclusively to those who meet quoting requirements This change is bad for translators and outsourcers [quote]Henry D wrote: Over the next few days a
change will be made to the (traditional) job
posting system so that job poster contact
information appears only to those who meet the
cr 		Eva Straus Mar 18, 2008
Voiceover URGENT: Need advice on voice-over I have an arrangement with a local studio Hi Jay, I recently started doing voice-overs
and I decided against investing into any
professional software for voice recording and
processing; instead I simply go to a nearby
studi 		Eva Straus Dec 19, 2007
Trados support How to deactivate source text display in Word documents Easy, you'll get the hang of it in a week or so [quote]Neil Barnes wrote: Thanks, but I find it
more difficult to read the text when the ST and TT
are all mixed together. At the moment, I am
finding that Trados is slowing me down 		Eva Straus Dec 18, 2007
Business issues Agencies: Tough application process equals little work? Save us from trigger-happy proofreaders [quote]gina ferlisi wrote: [a Cinese agency
sent me a test which i did years ago for a well
know CD player (user guide) which this company
has pubblicated ..therefore i thought i past 		Eva Straus Oct 30, 2007
Business issues Agencies: Tough application process equals little work? Agencies and CAT [quote]David Turner wrote: CAT does not equal
Trado$. There are plenty of other translation
memory type tools. I wish I had a euro for every
time I've said that. A reputable/knowledgeabl 		Eva Straus Oct 29, 2007
Business issues Agencies: Tough application process equals little work? We obviously do have some theories on this phenomenon It all makes much more sense now! Thank
you. [quote]José said: "A blunt way of
putting it is that while some agencies are forever
getting ready to do it right, others are right in
 Eva Straus Oct 29, 2007
Business issues Agencies: Tough application process equals little work? I'm pretty sure this issue has come up several
times but I can't recall ever reading an
explanation for this particular phenomenon. Or
even a theory why this happens. Ok, most of you
 Eva Straus Oct 28, 2007
Slovenian Pomoč pri lokalizaciji ProZ v slovenščino Slovenci se grebejo za sodelovanje pri lokalizaciji In vse tiho je bilo :) Pa saj ni tako hudo -
manj ljudi pri istem projektu pomeni manj zabave z
usklajevanjem.

[Edited at 2007-10-28 14:35] 		Eva Straus Oct 28, 2007
Money matters Being accused of dishonesty Notify project manager, print & send e-mail with invoice First, DO NOT stop translating the document you're
working on. Because you DO have strong work
ethics. Your client is counting on your
translation and you really shouldn't punish them
 Eva Straus Oct 26, 2007
Money matters A cheater on the board - what can be done? Track them down through WWA!! Just occurred to me: kindly ask ProZ staff to look
up the cheater's profile (it must be somewhere in
the archives) and see who gave them the WWA entry.
Then contact the outsorcer and try t 		Eva Straus Oct 23, 2007
Money matters A cheater on the board - what can be done? Look for verified identity and credentials Thank you very much for sharing this! I had no
idea such a thing could happen, especially since
you mentioned the user had WWA entries and KudoZ
(answers, not only questions, right??). 		Eva Straus Oct 23, 2007
Getting established Is there an e-slush-pile for translator CVs? Rare language pairs: Contact outsorcers. [quote]Atena Hensch wrote: Do we need to
bombard the agencies with our CVs or do we let
them to find us? Cheers Atena [/quote] My
advice to you would be yes, contact outsourcers if 		Eva Straus Oct 14, 2007
Getting established Is there an e-slush-pile for translator CVs? Sometimes you do get contacted after sending a CV I sent two (yes, only 2) unsolicited CVs several
years ago when I was trying to get some new
clients. I got called back by both agencies
(both of them Slovenian); the first one wanted 		Eva Straus Oct 14, 2007
Teaching and Learning Languages Resources for learning Greek Rosetta Stone Hi Dee! You should try Rosetta Stone
(software); it really helps with the basics.
It has everything: pronunciation, commonly
used expressions, useful exercises and, of course,
s 		Eva Straus Oct 11, 2007
Business issues Opinions on clause in agency's contract please: "Penalty Clause" My fifty cents I agree with pretty much everything said above.
What bothers me most is 'unquestionable' and
'double amount'. You should politely reject
them. Somebody once tried to pull the same
 Eva Straus Oct 9, 2007
Teaching and Learning Languages Strengthening vocabulary You make some good points [quote]Csaba Ban wrote: Using a monolingual
dictionary is really useful, but only for advanced
students, [/quote] Agree. Not good for total
beginners. [quote] and those who study 		Eva Straus Oct 4, 2007
Teaching and Learning Languages Strengthening vocabulary It works! Agree! It really helps with the vocabulary. And
you also learn how to put something in other words
(rephrase). I learned a lot this way. If you
can make your students see the benefits o 		Eva Straus Oct 4, 2007
Money matters moving to a country with a low cost of living Clients might expect lower rates If it really all comes down to money matters,
meaning there aren't any other factors luring you
abroad, you should only move to a country with
lower costs of living if your base of regular 		Eva Straus Oct 3, 2007
Business issues Is this discrimination or am I hypersensitive? It happens. Good portfolio helps :) Happened to me too. Twice, actually. Once an
outsourcer doubted the quality of Slovenian
translators in general. I calmed her down a bit,
provided some references. Now we have a great< 		Eva Straus Oct 2, 2007


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