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alexpgpI finished the text portion of the translation about 15 minutes ago. Now, I have to go through and add all the graphics (and any captions that go with them). I hope that will not take very long.
The document is apparently a collection of articles on various subjects having to do with electrical engineering, and when I got to the end of the article on lightning protection, which I was translating pretty much without requiring recourse to a dictionary, I started a new article that basically was a series of questions to and answers from some high-falutin' Scientific-Research Committee, and then on and on.
In the middle of it all, Shannon came bursting into the office and asked me to look at Sasha. She didn't say the dog was having seizures, but her tone did not imply anything positive. Indeed, Sasha appears to have had an argument with a porcupine, and lost. There were quills all over her body, which I took out fairly painlessly.
What became clear later was that I had missed several quills that had hidden themselves in her coat, and some others that had embedded themselves in her muzzle and tongue. Brrr. Drew and I got most of the remaining quills out, but could not get the tongue to hold still long enough to get them out. Since Sasha was not making a fuss about her tongue, we decided to see what nature would do, though we will take her to the vet on the first sign of an infection or other problem.
Anyway, the day's translation toll currently stands at just over 4800 words done, for a total that's just short of 19,000 words for three days. The figure captions will probably add another couple of words, but I rather doubt that the total will actually reach 20,000. OTOH, I must hand it to my editor: to land within 5% of the target word count is pretty good!
Back to work!
Cheers...
The document is apparently a collection of articles on various subjects having to do with electrical engineering, and when I got to the end of the article on lightning protection, which I was translating pretty much without requiring recourse to a dictionary, I started a new article that basically was a series of questions to and answers from some high-falutin' Scientific-Research Committee, and then on and on.
In the middle of it all, Shannon came bursting into the office and asked me to look at Sasha. She didn't say the dog was having seizures, but her tone did not imply anything positive. Indeed, Sasha appears to have had an argument with a porcupine, and lost. There were quills all over her body, which I took out fairly painlessly.
What became clear later was that I had missed several quills that had hidden themselves in her coat, and some others that had embedded themselves in her muzzle and tongue. Brrr. Drew and I got most of the remaining quills out, but could not get the tongue to hold still long enough to get them out. Since Sasha was not making a fuss about her tongue, we decided to see what nature would do, though we will take her to the vet on the first sign of an infection or other problem.
Anyway, the day's translation toll currently stands at just over 4800 words done, for a total that's just short of 19,000 words for three days. The figure captions will probably add another couple of words, but I rather doubt that the total will actually reach 20,000. OTOH, I must hand it to my editor: to land within 5% of the target word count is pretty good!
Back to work!
Cheers...
