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tranfree issue 22 - 4th December 2000 "Easy Text, Fun & eGroups"
Welcome to issue 22 of tranfree - the newsletter for translators.
To those of you in the Southern hemisphere I hope you are having
a good summer. To the rest of us, with gloomy skies and winter
weather - just a few weeks until we can have a break I've been buried writing chapter 10 of my new book. But it's done now, so I can come up for air and have a couple of days off. PHEW! Those of you who've registered with our new forums in the last couple of weeks will still be waiting for the tranmail draw result. We're getting close to the magic 200, and when we do, we'll hold the draw. But there's a handful of places left, so if you haven't been along and registered just yet, do so now... Click here to visit the translatortips forums You're going to love our new smilies they're so much fun -- see
Phil's article
Alex Eames
This tranfree contains:
Star Letter"Hello Alex, Thank you so much. You've really helped me to stay in translation business after the Russian crisis of 1998 and to keep my freelance status which I prize so highly. Number of my foreign clients is still increasing thanks to your tranmail. Keep it up." Andrei E. Gerasimov, Ph.D.
eBook How to Earn $80,000+ per Year as a Freelance Translator http://www.translatortips.net/ht50.html tranmail - new edition of our system for applying for work by email at 1800 translation agencies around the world http://www.translatortips.net/tranmail.html Alex Eames, tranfree editor
This tranfree's Feature Articles...
translatortips.com Linkers FREE Prize DrawI am keen to get as many of you as possible who have your own web sites to link to the translatortips.com web site. To encourage you all to put a link to translatortips.com on your own site, I am holding a monthly prize draw for everyone who does this. Each month all those people who have put a link on their own web site to the translatortips.com site (and let me know about it) will go into a ballot and the winner gets a FREE translatortips.com product of their choice from the following:
this winner is John McCarthy - please contact me within the next 3 months to claim your prize from the above selection. If you wish to put a link to the translatortips.com site on your site you can find instructions at the bottom of this edition.
Translation JokeWell it's not really a translation joke this time, but it's very funny. Quoted from Richard Lederer's site... http://pw1.netcom.com/~rlederer/index.htm Not long ago, I visited a nearby progressive elementary school and chatted for about forty-five minutes with the sixth graders about the joys of language and the writing life. One of the boys in the class asked me, "Dr. Lederer, where do you get your ideas for your books?" Ever since I became a writer, I had found that question the most difficult to answer and had only recently come up with an analogy that I thought would satisfy both my audience and me. Pouncing on the opportunity to unveil my spanking new explanation, I countered with, "Where does the spider get its web?" The idea, of course, was that the spider is not aware how it spins out its intricate and beautiful patterns with the silky material that is simply a natural part of itself. Asking a writer to account for the genesis of his or her ideas is as futile as asking a spider the source of its web and method of its construction. The young man, in response to my question, appeared thoughtful for a moment. Then he looked me squarely in the eye and shot right back, "The spider gets its web from its butt!" I checked out the boy's assertion, and, sure enough, spiders do produce their silk from glands located in their posteriors. The glands open through tiny spinnerets located at the hind end of the abdomen. Well, it may be that for lo these many years I've been talking and writing through my butt, but that doesn't stop me from being a self-confessed and unrepentant verbivore. Richard Lederer... http://pw1.netcom.com/~rlederer/index.htm
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