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Þearfing through Thursday...
Dec. 9th, 2010 07:54 pmThis morning's document was a doozy. It was pretty straightforward, but it took me some time to figure out just how to process it, because the final project was supposed to be bilingual, which is not something that translation memory products easily support. In the end, the job was worth just over 3,000 target words.
In the afternoon, I sat down and translated the PowerPoint document due tomorrow morning. The challenge here was to address a couple of graphics that included significant text, which throws any estimate one might have about source word count sort of out the window.
Anyway, it's been a 4,000 word day, and I'm not complaining.
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Mike put the finishing touches on the work he's been doing and took off for Parker a little in front of 6 pm. The upstairs looks pretty good now, with only the island bar remaining as the sole sore spot. The tile backsplash looks really good.
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Ideas had been pretty scarce for this week's Idol—which isn't actually the case, as it'd be more accurate to say that ideas having nothing to do with the Marines were pretty scarce (I think I've exhausted that well for this season, based on my perception of audience reactions). Then one part of my brain kicked another and now, I'm wallowing in about a half dozen ideas, but nothing yet that grabs me by the throat.
Last night, as I reread Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing on my Kindle, it occurred to me that reading this very short work from time to time will—sentence for sentence, so to speak—have much more of a beneficial impact on one's writing than periodically reviewing Strunk & White's Elements of Style (as recommended by Fowler in his Modern English Usage. Both latter books are valuable, but I think Leonard's rules cut to the chase quicker.
I may be wrong, but I think it's an excellent example of the Pareto principle at work.
Cheers...
In the afternoon, I sat down and translated the PowerPoint document due tomorrow morning. The challenge here was to address a couple of graphics that included significant text, which throws any estimate one might have about source word count sort of out the window.
Anyway, it's been a 4,000 word day, and I'm not complaining.
Mike put the finishing touches on the work he's been doing and took off for Parker a little in front of 6 pm. The upstairs looks pretty good now, with only the island bar remaining as the sole sore spot. The tile backsplash looks really good.
Ideas had been pretty scarce for this week's Idol—which isn't actually the case, as it'd be more accurate to say that ideas having nothing to do with the Marines were pretty scarce (I think I've exhausted that well for this season, based on my perception of audience reactions). Then one part of my brain kicked another and now, I'm wallowing in about a half dozen ideas, but nothing yet that grabs me by the throat.
Last night, as I reread Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing on my Kindle, it occurred to me that reading this very short work from time to time will—sentence for sentence, so to speak—have much more of a beneficial impact on one's writing than periodically reviewing Strunk & White's Elements of Style (as recommended by Fowler in his Modern English Usage. Both latter books are valuable, but I think Leonard's rules cut to the chase quicker.
I may be wrong, but I think it's an excellent example of the Pareto principle at work.
Cheers...
