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Pleased to see that business seems to be picking up slightly for some of my automotive clients. It's been a slow year for them. 12:58 AM Nov 27th from TwitterBerry
RT @nickrosenthal: Business skills course for professional translators: Is ITI's online PSG course what you need? http://bit.ly/71KThN 2:19 AM Nov 25th from TweetDeck
Reading: CBI sees recession as a catalyst for new business era http://bit.ly/52nJVV 1:03 AM Nov 23rd from TweetDeck
Translating a monthly e-newsletter for a company specialising in industrial coolants. 12:59 AM Nov 18th from TweetDeck
Interesting examples of SL interfering with native language fluency! OK, rant over - back to trying to turn this text into decent English... 8:42 AM Nov 12th from TweetDeck
@FraukeWatson I understand how it happens but can't understand how interference on the scale I'm correcting passes as a quality translation. 8:27 AM Nov 12th from TweetDeck in reply to FraukeWatson
@Textklick Perhaps, but I still come across a few cases of SL interference, it seems... 8:23 AM Nov 12th from TweetDeck in reply to Textklick
@AngelaMDickson I know an expat living in France who insists on calling their mobile phone their "portable". 8:18 AM Nov 12th from TweetDeck in reply to AngelaMDickson
@nikki_graham @philippahammond I know from personal experience that it's hard to keep up your TL when abroad but this is fairly shocking... 8:02 AM Nov 12th from TweetDeck in reply to nikki_graham
Since there's a shortage of linguists with English as their mother tongue, I've never understood why MFL is no longer compulsory to age 16. 6:50 AM Nov 12th from TweetDeck
RT @iwandavies: UK residents can sign petition to PM for mandatory modern langs teaching up to age 16 in English schools http://digs.by/lbi 6:41 AM Nov 12th from TweetDeck
Proofreading work by a translator who has clearly been living in Germany for years. Confused prepositions + German-like syntax throughout... 6:34 AM Nov 12th from TweetDeck
Great video from last week's Lewes bonfire celebrations. Some of you might recognise my other half in the pirates! http://bit.ly/tA8jH 4:04 AM Nov 12th from TweetDeck
My copy of the November/December ITI Bulletin has arrived - just as I decided to take a coffee break. Perfect timing! 2:46 AM Nov 12th from TwitterBerry
@northrichard Thanks for the tip! 1:47 PM Nov 11th from TwitterBerry
Now for the long train journey home. Great opportunity to catch up on source language podcasts and reading though! 9:42 AM Nov 11th from TwitterBerry
Had a great day at Aston. My presentation went well and I got some fascinating insights into subtitling and public service interpreting. 9:41 AM Nov 11th from TwitterBerry
On my way to Birmingham. Giving a presentation on my experiences of getting into translation at Aston University this afternoon. 11:38 PM Nov 10th from TwitterBerry
@bonnjill Oh dear! Fortunately, I haven't found any strange sites yet - just useful/clean ones. 12:02 AM Nov 10th from TwitterBerry
Working hell-for-leather to get a website translation finished for a company that specialises in... leather hides. 3:20 AM Nov 9th from TweetDeck