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tranfree issue 32 - 31st May 2001
"Cost Cutting & Viruses pt II"
Welcome to issue 32 of tranfree
- the newsletter for translators.
New Translation Jokes Forum
Lesley Clayton wrote in to suggest a translation jokes forum for
our translatortips® forums,
so we decided it'd be fun to put one
up there. If you've got any translation (or related) jokes to
contribute, or want to just go and have a look, please visit...
http://www.translatortips.net/cgi-bin/ubb/Ultimate.cgi
Viruses, Viruses, Viruses
This tranfree issue focuses fairly heavily on viruses.
This has got nothing to do with the fact that I've got a cold 
After this issue we'll shut up and leave you alone about them for
a few editions  ...
I've received 18 viruses in emails people have sent me in the
month of May, 11 in April, 16 in March 2001. Anyone who is going
without virus protection is playing with fire. My system finds
these little beasties because it automatically updates the virus
signature files every few days.
OK being editor of a major ezine means that one of my email
addresses is in the address book of well over 20,000 people. So
maybe ezine editors are a little bit more susceptible.
But you should ensure that you are protected.
Alex Eames
tranfree editor, Author -
How to Earn $80,000+ per Year as a Freelance Translator
This tranfree contains...
Star Letter
"Alex,
You know I feel most fortunate for having the opportunity to
buy your book. Needless to say that this is a book that nobody
in this business should be without. I recommend it to any
serious professional who wishes to be successful.
My target naturally is to work only through the web. I do feel
that thanks to you I may be able to do it.
The abovementioned in relation to your book is the truth from
my heart as I feel it. I have no objection therefore, if other
people read what I said. The strongest thing always is the
truth, as we know it.
I wish you and Phil who helped me a lot, the very best. You do
deserve it.
Yanna"
Thanks Yanna
translatortips.com product URLs are as follows...
eBook How to Earn $80,000+ per Year as a Freelance Translator
http://www.translatortips.net/ht50.html
tranmail - system for applying for work by email at 1650 translation agencies around the world (soon to be 2000)
http://www.translatortips.net/tranmail.html
Alex Eames, tranfree editor
This tranfree's Feature Articles...
- A Penny Saved Is A Penny Earned - Or Is It? - Alex Eames
- Virus Hoaxes - Almost as Bad as the Real Thing - Alex Eames
- Computer Viruses: Tips For Defense And Combat pt 2 - Mary Maloof
Add A tranfree Signup Box Competition
I am keen to get as many of you as possible who have your own web
sites to put a tranfree signup box on your web site.
To encourage you all to do this we are holding a monthly prize
draw for everyone who does. This is in addition to the linkers
free prize draw. So you can double your chances of winning if you
do both
Each month, all those people who have put a tranfree signup box
on their own website (and let me know about it) will go into a
ballot and the winner gets a FREE translatortips® product of
their choice from the following...
This edition's winner is Madeleine Kamlin - please contact me within the next 3 months to claim your prize from the above selection.
If you wish to put a tranfree signup box on your site you can find instructions at the bottom of this edition.
Translation Joke
Contributed by Stanislav Smirnov
No matter how windy, rainy, chilly or downright blizzardy it gets
in Reykjavik, Iceland, on Sunday afternoons, everyone still goes
for a ritual drive in a monster truck or an oversize jeep in
leisurely pursuit of ice cream.
Now, ice cream is made locally, and the biggest producer is MS-IS
(pronounced em-es-is). I don't remember what MS stands for -
certainly not Microsoft - but I never found anything wrong with
that name displayed in every shop window, until one day I
actually pronounced it in front of a bunch of medically minded
Americans.
Naturally, they thought that "emesis", a clever word for vomit,
is a hilarious name for an ice cream brand. That is to say yet
another unappetising name for a food product.
***End of issue 32***
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