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Waiting for dinner...
Tomorrow is pretty much the last day in orbit for the Soyuz "taxi mission" (the transfer hatch closes at 21:35 GMT), so there are not a whole lot of radiograms going up to tell them of upcoming events.
Sitting here and idly musing for a few minutes near the end of the work day, I suppose that among the most challenging radiograms Alex K. and I translated had to do with a study called "Plankton Lens," which had crew members - and South African Mark Shuttleworth in particular - spending time looking for and taking photos of particular features in the Earth's oceans. The challenge lay in accurately translating various geographical names - such as the "Flemish Cape bank," the "Gouin reservoir," and the "Betsiboka River" - and the names of various phenomena, such as "sea bloom" (цветоконтрастные образования, which one might naively translate as "color contrasting features"), "internal waves." Translating (and researching)those radiograms made me want to do a little traveling, though.
I've been reading over the Russian version of the ISO standard and comparing it to what I presume is the English original. I am a little surprised to have found what I think are a couple of translation errors, but when you consider just how hard it is to achieve perfection in this racket, the quality is actually pretty high. In any event, I did just over 2300 words at home this morning before showing up here for work. Everything seems to be on track, thus far.
Food has arrived, courtesy of Popeye's (though we pay for it, of course). Don't ask me what possessed me to order it... Having done so, however, I suppose I ought to go pick up my order.
Cheers...
Sitting here and idly musing for a few minutes near the end of the work day, I suppose that among the most challenging radiograms Alex K. and I translated had to do with a study called "Plankton Lens," which had crew members - and South African Mark Shuttleworth in particular - spending time looking for and taking photos of particular features in the Earth's oceans. The challenge lay in accurately translating various geographical names - such as the "Flemish Cape bank," the "Gouin reservoir," and the "Betsiboka River" - and the names of various phenomena, such as "sea bloom" (цветоконтрастные образования, which one might naively translate as "color contrasting features"), "internal waves." Translating (and researching)those radiograms made me want to do a little traveling, though.
I've been reading over the Russian version of the ISO standard and comparing it to what I presume is the English original. I am a little surprised to have found what I think are a couple of translation errors, but when you consider just how hard it is to achieve perfection in this racket, the quality is actually pretty high. In any event, I did just over 2300 words at home this morning before showing up here for work. Everything seems to be on track, thus far.
Food has arrived, courtesy of Popeye's (though we pay for it, of course). Don't ask me what possessed me to order it... Having done so, however, I suppose I ought to go pick up my order.
Cheers...