Another karmic withdrawal...
Aug. 17th, 2011 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpWhile going through the bilingual document spit out by memoQ for the 40K Job (I had, after all, done quite a bit of work in that tool before deciding to revert to Wordfast/Word), I've noticed that, from time to time, some extra wording has been added to segments, almost as if a buffer hadn't been cleared from the last time the routine was called (I say this because the extra wording is invariably from the previous paragraph, or is the previous paragraph).
So just for laughs, I started to go through the part of the file I haven't gotten to yet and I began to delete those extra words, because it occurred to me that—at this point in the job—my goal is to finish processing the "words left" and whatever reduces that number—such as deleting duplicated text—is A Good Thing.
As a result of this editing procedure, I've eliminated almost 4,000 words from the total of those "left to do," and while it is a shame they're gone (which means I won't get paid for them), it is most certainly not a shame that they've put me almost 200 words ahead of where I otherwise planned to be by the end of the today (which includes wiping out Sunday's 1200 word shortfall).
Somebody—somewhere—must like me.
Cheers...
So just for laughs, I started to go through the part of the file I haven't gotten to yet and I began to delete those extra words, because it occurred to me that—at this point in the job—my goal is to finish processing the "words left" and whatever reduces that number—such as deleting duplicated text—is A Good Thing.
As a result of this editing procedure, I've eliminated almost 4,000 words from the total of those "left to do," and while it is a shame they're gone (which means I won't get paid for them), it is most certainly not a shame that they've put me almost 200 words ahead of where I otherwise planned to be by the end of the today (which includes wiping out Sunday's 1200 word shortfall).
Somebody—somewhere—must like me.
Cheers...
