One of those days...

[alexpgp]

I've spent the better part of the time between 9 and 11 am plunged back into the swamp of researching terminology (after two hours of work, I hadn't gotten past 500 words). That, and trying to struggle past some complete idiocy in the source text.

I took a nap, determined to snap out of this rut, but after fifteen minutes, I am ready to heave a brick through the monitor. My progress since 9 am this morning? A whole 1300 words.

I wrote yesterday off as something of an off day, and determined to make today different. The source text is not helping.

Cheers...

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[velvet-granat.livejournal.com]

sorry to hear that your day was so frustrating...

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

One of the better sentences I had to deal with today:

Поперечную силу Q в шарнирно опертой по концам стойке с решетками постоянного по длине прямоугольного сечения (тип 2, таблица 8) опоры с оттяжками при сжатии с изгибом в одной из плоскостей x - x или y - y следует принимать постоянной по длине стойки и определять по формуле ...

which ended up looking about like this:

In a lattice column of constant rectangular cross section along its length (type 2, Table 8), of a guyed mast, in compression with bending in either the x–x or y–y plane, the lateral force Q should be taken to be constant along the length of the column and determined using ...

I look at what I wrote and don't think too much of it. It's as much of a dog's breakfast as the original, I think, but the real killer was trying to figure out the meaning of the original .

I pity the poor effing editor...

Cheers...

[velvet-granat.livejournal.com]

I read it out to M (aka the resident engineer), and apparently it all made sense. Hope that makes you feel better!

(personally, I'd die if I had to translate a doozy like that!)

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

P.S. It occurs to me that in the example I gave, I left out "simply supported" to account for "шарнирно опертой по концам" (so it'd be "In a simply supported lattice column...").

Despeckling ain't gonna be much fun, either.

<grin>

[velvet-granat.livejournal.com]

I think I'd go mad, trying to despeckle THAT, after writing it for days and days...

good luck!