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tranfree issue 45 - 28 January 2002

"Professionalism, Free TM software & email behaviour"

 

Welcome to issue 45 of tranfree - the newsletter for translators.

 

What a Start to the Year

January has been a tricky old month for me. I've been buried under a mountain of administration work

I had to reformat my hard disk too, which could have come at a better time. I knew it was due. It was 2 years since I last did it and the computer was getting way too slow. But I was hoping it would be OK to leave it until February. And then my email software stopped working.

So I had no choice but to back everything up and get on with the reformat.

Just today I had to pay my taxes and file tax returns, which is an unpleasant annual task

Oh well - it's over now. Sorry for the delay since the last tranfree. I hope your January has been more income generating and less of a pain than mine.

Enjoy and benefit from tranfree

Alex

Alex Eames
tranfree editor, Author -
How to Earn $80,000+ per Year as a Freelance Translator

 

 

This tranfree contains...

 

Star Letter

    Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 00:01:26 EDT
    Subject: Re: Svetlana translatortips report 2

    "Alex,

    I read and enjoyed the ebook on "How to earn $80k...".

    Thank you for sharing your insight and knowledge to help others such as myself become financially secure. I believe this will allow me to actually work in a career I will enjoy.

    Thanks again and I look forward to hearing from you.

    Svetlana Farwell"

Thanks Svetlana


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 1800+ translation agencies around the world (Newly Updated)

http://www.translatortips.net/tranmail.html

Alex Eames, tranfree editor

 

    This tranfree's Feature Articles...

  1. Comments On Airport Marketing - Alex Eames
  2. LionBridge - the Good and the Bad - Alex Eames
  3. The Six Deadly E-Mail Sins - Mary Maloof

 

 

translatortips.com Linkers FREE Prize Draw

I 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 Amy Worwood - 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.

 

 

Bad Experiences?

Have you had bad experiences with translation agencies not paying or paying more than a couple of months late?

If so we'd really like to hear FULL details from you about this. We want names and facts. Your information will be treated anonymously from your point of view.

Please send full details to...

badpayers@translatortips.net

 

 

Translation Joke

Machine Translation errors.

Contributed by Steven Rabuku

  1. The French word for dustbin is la poubelle. Recently while translating an article on Osama Bin Laden I got...
    OSAMA POUBELLE (maybe right!) LADEN!

  2. The French word for lamp-post is le poteau. While translating an article about the post-Taliban Era, this is what I got for post-Taliban...
    Poteau-Taliban! (Lamp-post-Taliban!)

 

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