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Herewith, the text of an email sent moments ago:

I'm attaching a small excerpt of the big document. Please note that in this table of 12 segments (which I've reformatted for my convenience in working), there are less than 50 translated words and an additional 16 words identifying merged segments and sentence fragments. Every line required merging of two or more segments to make a fragment, which required additional reference to the original document to guess what the missing part is.

Between doing entirely too much cutting and pasting and referring to the original files to find what was supposed to be in the source column, these 66 words took me nearly 30 minutes to translate, which represents a significant reduction in my productivity.

Also note that I have not (and, frankly, am not prepared to) cut-and-paste the text that's missing from the Russian original source file into the source column of the table. For one thing, were I to do so, my productivity would disappear altogether and second, it probably wouldn't be suitable for the Deja Vu software.

Apropos of which, please note that owing to all of the embedded codes, this file will be impossible to proofread and, I strongly suspect, your editors will find it impossible to edit, as well.

Olga, if you somehow got the impression that the awful segmentation and missing text is is an isolated phenomenon in the document, I regret to suggest you are mistaken. The document as presented for translation is a disaster waiting to happen. I would suggest that you find the person responsible for creating this file and have them do the job again, correctly. There is still time, I think.

The other files in the assignment pose no problem for me.

I'm sending this message from my gmail.com account because my usual mail server is currently experiencing problems. I would appreciate your directing any replies to both this account and to my usual address. Thank you.

Wouldn't you know, besides this hairball, email provider FastMail has left me high and dry once again.

Life is grand.

Cheers...

UPDATE: Whew! That was quick. FM is back.