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  1. Compared to legal costs and renewal fees, the translation is the evil, expensive part of a patent, then...!? #xl8 6:34 PM May 23rd via web
  2. Article on cutting patent #translation costs... bit.ly/KVqxFe Because of course... #xl8 6:34 PM May 23rd via web
  3. On the other hand, I have the unfortunate deficiency of needing to eat and sleep. #xl8 9:01 AM May 17th via web
  4. Just seen #translation job advertised: 200K words of technical material in ten days for the princely sum of $0.02/word. Tempting... #xl8 8:58 AM May 17th via web
  5. #ios techies: I have started a bounty! Hopefully somebody knows the answer! :) bit.ly/K8HjAJ 4:11 PM May 16th via web
  6. But seriously, with some of the appalling #translation budgets we see, why don't we see more client outrage over shoddy quality? #xl8 3:54 PM May 16th via web
  7. Colleague: "It ain't pretty". bit.ly/MlHZXE Suppose I thought as much. #xl8 3:52 PM May 16th via web
  8. Me: What actually happens to the "$0.02/word or best offer rush job" when it lands back on the client's desk?"... #xl8 3:52 PM May 16th via web
  9. And the problem of schemes/measures for automatically assessing translation is also considered by the domain of MT #xl8 9:35 PM May 15th via web
  10. ...with those that may be possible with future, radically different, types of computers, possibly to the point of them being "conscious". 9:34 PM May 15th via web
  11. Another machine #translation article. bit.ly/JbGYAN I think it confuses the limitations of MT with *current* types of computers... 9:33 PM May 15th via web
  12. Hurray, a new type of computer memory! Good, because the current array of types definitely isn't confusing enough. bit.ly/JiqTDV 9:32 PM May 15th via web
  13. There's a lesson in this for academics who assume that journalists understand fancy verbiage. 4:34 PM May 15th via web
  14. ...gets reported as "individuals claiming to see X actually present Y" bit.ly/JIElnx 4:31 PM May 15th via web
  15. It's definitely curious how a paper concluding that X and Y are "phenomenologically dissimilar"... bit.ly/IWBeXR 4:31 PM May 15th via web
  16. Apparently new #iphone #jailbreaking options-- though if you're that fussed, why not just get an Android tablet instead? 11:49 PM May 14th via web
  17. Programmers: Anyone know an #iOS person who can answer this? stackoverflow.com/questions/1057… 8:13 AM May 14th via Twitter for iPhone
  18. How to spot you're dealing with a language pedant: see episode 354 of Skeptics' Guide to the Universe bit.ly/LysVD8 4:41 PM May 11th via web
  19. Hopefully hotel #wifi is miraculously better in France than in the rest of the world, then...! 4:52 AM May 11th via web
  • Name Neil Coffey
  • Web http://www.french...
  • Bio Linguist, programmer and web site author, developer of the French Linguistics and Javamex web sites, plus general ranter about stuff.
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