Abbreviations: how confident are you?

Posted on 5 December 2016 by

ciAbbreviations are rife in medical texts. Some, such as DNA, are universally known and more common than their expanded forms. Others, such as CI (confidence interval) fall into a grey area. Widespread use of such abbreviations in English means they have been adopted in other languages too, particularly in the medical field. Out-of-English translators are then faced with a dilemma: should they translate commonly-understood English abbreviations or follow the practice of medical writers in their language and keep them in English? Read more…

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SDL Trados Studio 2017: more new features

Posted on 24 November 2016 by

i-work-withI’ve written about Fragment recall and repair and the Advanced display filter in previous blog posts. What else is new in SDL Trados Studio 2017? Drag and drop, segment merging and AdaptiveMT, to name but a few. Here’s a review of these features and some other smaller changes that are also worth a mention. Read more…

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SDL Trados Studio 2017: Advanced Display Filter

Posted on 21 November 2016 by

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SDL Trados Studio 2017 comes with an Advanced Display Filter out of the box. This post looks at the new feature in detail and compares it with filtering options from previous versions.

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SDL Trados Studio 2017: fragment recall and repair

Posted on 17 November 2016 by

uplifting-studioI’ve been beta testing the latest version of SDL Trados Studio since the summer. Four months and nine builds later, Studio 2017 has been officially unveiled and is being rolled out to the thousands of users who pre-ordered the upgrade, have a support agreement in place or are buying Studio for the very first time. What’s in store for them? Fragment recall and repair, an Advanced Display Filter, adaptive machine translation, improved segment merging and more. upLIFT fragment recall and match repair is worthy of a post of its own. So here it is. Read more…

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Keyboard Corner: Periboard-512B

Posted on 14 November 2016 by

periboard_512bToday’s keyboard review is by Lucy Brooks, a German, French and Spanish to English translator and managing director of eCPD Webinars. Lucy is reporting on her favourite keyboard, the Perixx Periboard-512B. Might it be the perfect keyboard for you too? Read more…

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Translators’ associations: give, and you will receive

Posted on 7 November 2016 by

METThe latest Mediterranean Editors & Translators Meeting (METM16 in Tarragona, Spain) has been the subject of entertaining blog posts by Allison Wright, Philippa Hammond, Simon Berrill, Rob Lunn and possibly others, too. Simon and Rob also published follow-up posts on their experience as presenters at METM16 (see here and here). I was planning on adding my own blog post to the list of first-person accounts – it’s always interesting to see what different people get out of the same event – but three weeks have flown by and new roles and challenges have changed that plan. Read more…

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Upcoming webinars for medical translators

Posted on 20 October 2016 by

ecg_ecpdFollowing my double webinar session in September on EMA templates, fellow medical translator Jason Willis-Lee is also giving two presentations for eCPD Webinars, on Diabetes, cholesterol and triglycerides and The ECG made easy. I attended the ECG session live at METM16 last week and thoroughly recommend it. Read what Jason has to say about his upcoming webinars… Read more…

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SDL Trados Studio features in 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2017

Posted on 10 October 2016 by

2009-2015_How do you decide whether it’s worth upgrading from your current version of SDL Trados Studio to the latest release? The answer to this common question depends on which version you’re running at the moment and which features you need. Since the first release of SDL Trados Studio back in 2009, each version (2011, 2014, 2015 and, shortly, 2017) has brought major new features that may be decisive for you. Read more…

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Two webinar videos on EMA templates

Posted on 7 September 2016 by

medicinal-productsDo you want to learn how to use EMA-QRD templates in your medicinal product translation work? Have you been translating them for a while but still have some niggling doubts whether you’re doing it right? Would you like to get a better grip of the technological side of these translations? If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, then these webinar recordings will be right up your street! Read more…

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Keyboard Corner: Rapoo E9070

Posted on 9 August 2016 by

RapooThis week’s keyboard review is by Jane Davis, a Swedish and French to English translator. Jane is reporting on her favourite keyboard, the lite-price, lightweight Rapoo E9070. Might it be the perfect keyboard for you too? Read more…

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