Last week a colleague asked the Twittersphere whether endometriosis is a disease, disorder or condition. Always keen to accept a challenge, I went off to investigate. Join me on my journey down the rabbit hole!
Continuing from last week’s blog post about the new Studio 2021, here’s a post all about SDL Trados Live (Essential edition), a system for translating files in your browser that comes bundled as a 12-month package with your perpetual Studio 2021 license. It’s very green but has huge potential. First, I’ll explain how to translate in SDL Trados Live; then, I’ll talk about why you might or might not want to use it. Read more…
SDL Trados Studio 2021 has arrived! As a beta team member, I’ve spent almost three months testing new features, catching bugs and suggesting improvements. Here’s my low-down on the new SDL Trados Studio 2021. Read more…
Here’s my review of METM19, the 15th Mediterranean Editors & Translators Meeting, held 26-28 September in Split, Croatia. Attendees chose which workshops and talks to attend and which social activities to take part in. We made some choices months in advance and others on the spot. Everyone’s METM19 was unique. The photo gallery below is a report of my METM19 experience. Read more…
I often receive emails from aspiring translators who are switching from a career in the fields of science or healthcare and are seeking advice from someone with the same language combination who made a similar change, albeit several decades ago. This blog post is an expanded version of my response, in the hope that it will save me writing similar emails in the future, while reaching a potentially larger group of career switchers. Read more…
Two of my favourite Word macros are counting words inserted with track changes and extracting those words to translate them in SDL Trados Studio (or other CAT tool). I mentioned the first macro in a blog post seven years ago when Studio introduced a new feature to show track changes in source segments. The subject cropped up again on Twitter last week and I promised to share the macros in a new blog post. Read more…
Without a doubt, the most valuable resources on my computer are my translation memories and my business accounting system (BaccS), home to an exhaustive record of clients, jobs, invoices and payments. Over a decade of a thriving freelance business in a single database file. Read more…
Last week I had to translate a long medical questionnaire. The source text was a single column in an Excel file and I was instructed to translate cells with an orange fill, which were the questions addressed to the patient. Processing the file in Studio turned out to be slightly trickier than I expected, so I’m sharing my workaround here. Read more…
A quick heads-up about an event I’m attending in June. MET (Mediterranean Editors and Translators)* is organising a workshop day in Pisa, Italy, on Saturday 8 June with two workshops in the morning and two in the afternoon. Read more…
Three terms have recently cropped up when I’ve been revising clinical trial documentation translated from Spanish to English. They’re not complex terms, but they do have standard or generally-accepted translations. Other solutions tend to jar on the ears. Read more…
Spanish to English medical translator
