Информация к размышлению...

So there's this table, see, in the original document, and it's been translated before it got to me.

Badly.

If it were simply bad MT output, I'd junk the translation and provide my own (and provide a note to that effect), but the translation - and that's what it is, no doubt - actually provides some additional information that may be useful to the reader.

In other words, I need to come up with a way of incorporating a proper translation into a table (for crying out loud) along with the source and the "pretranslation."

Did I mention this was a table?

Cheers...

I forgot...

...just how long it takes to review a 120 page document!

Not to mention that I left the figures and a few "pretranslated" tables for this morning as well.

Not to mention how Word suddenly decided to shift all of the figures (well... not figures, exactly... more like collections of individual lines, arrows, text boxes, etc.) off to the side of some pages, and then not display them unless I saved, closed, and reopened the file.

Fortunately - sort of - I got up at 5 am, so I was able to make my noon deadline.

Whereupon, I get a call from the client asking if I could resend the file because the one that arrived was corrupt.

Saving, closing, and reopening the file showed it, too, was corrupt, so I had to go through the recovery process, a fast review to see if anything had gone bonkers in the process (I couldn't tell), another save-close-reopen to make sure the file was okay, and another outbound email with the file as an attachment.

The rest of the day was spent doing paperwork and sifting through the detritus in my office. I also installed iTunes on charlie, an old Dell Inspiron running Win2K. The good news is that iTunes apparently will convert files from audible.com into something suitable for iPods, which theoretically can be converted into usable-the-way-I-want files via doubleTwist. The bad news is, of course, that the machine is brought to its knees when iTunes runs (my setup could probably be used to train console operators to use a Windows machine located on Mars... "Click the button, wait fifteen minutes," that kind of thing).

I went for a walk with Shiloh after dinner. It was nice.

Cheers...