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Golden Rules for Truly Terrible Translations

On Wednesday 16 November 2011 · 11 Comments

Sadly, even blue-chip multinationals are capable of producing Truly Terrible Translations. A few recent examples:

The oil company producing a safety manual in “Polish” without any diacritic characters, rendering the manual largely meaningless. Well, it is only safety! The IT company that printed its warranty with every single word of “Arabic” printed back-to-front. The machine [...]

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Reset the language and dictionary settings in a Word file

On Monday 31 January 2011 · 1 Comment

How to reset the language and dictionary settings in a Microsoft Word file

If you receive a Word file from another person, it will have that person’s language settings embedded in the file: including any words that they have marked as being correct when they are in fact spelling mistakes, or words that the [...]

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Email Etiquette

On Thursday 20 January 2011 · 1 Comment

A recent item on the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Today’ discussed the rights and wrongs of email etiquette, focussing primarily on opening and closing salutations.

Is an email a digital letter? How formal or informal should it be? Just what is the right tone to use in an email?

In truth, there are [...]

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