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What can one say?
Oct. 7th, 2014 07:00 pmA client I had not heard from in probably 6 years called with a rush job from French into English. A presentation.
This automatically caused bells to ring (quietly) in my head, because people have a tendency to go abbreviation happy inside of presentations, which makes the overall translation that much harder.
But then the presentation—one of several, I was informed—arrived in the email.
It was a 28-page PDF of what had obviously begun life as a PowerPoint file. And whoever created the original slides was rather good at incorporating lots and lots of creative ways to show data. A veritable riot of miniature infographics, and a translator's nightmare.
I declined with work.
I'm off to meditate at tai chi.
This automatically caused bells to ring (quietly) in my head, because people have a tendency to go abbreviation happy inside of presentations, which makes the overall translation that much harder.
But then the presentation—one of several, I was informed—arrived in the email.
It was a 28-page PDF of what had obviously begun life as a PowerPoint file. And whoever created the original slides was rather good at incorporating lots and lots of creative ways to show data. A veritable riot of miniature infographics, and a translator's nightmare.
I declined with work.
I'm off to meditate at tai chi.
