Reaching for the golden ring...
Jul. 2nd, 2003 08:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI hate it when you get ahead and then something comes along to strike you back down to even lower than where you were to begin with. Of course, the nastiness would have happened even if I'd not bothered with the effort to get ahead, so I guess it's just as well.
There's my dollop of self-pity for the day.
* * * Have you ever repeated a word so many times in succession that eventually, repeating that word becomes an exercise in strangeness, until the constituent sounds of the word cease to have meaning and it becomes almost impossible to mouth them?
Well, I've just had something like that happen with the word "directive," which is used fairly often in this section of the manual that I'm translating. A few minutes ago, I looked at what I'd typed, decided that it was misspelled, somehow, and then gave it a second, long look.
It still looked wrong, but I could not figure out what it was, and then it hit me. Nothing was wrong. Go figure.
Weird.
Anyway, although I've fulfilled my goal of 4,000 words for the day, I'd like to finish 3 more pages, for a total of 17 for the day. That'll put me about 33% of the way through the document. Then I can turn my attention to finishing the process I started by having FineReader analyze that incoming fax from yesterday (the spell check is complete; the saved file, though, does not reflect the tabular form of the original).
Cheers...
There's my dollop of self-pity for the day.
Well, I've just had something like that happen with the word "directive," which is used fairly often in this section of the manual that I'm translating. A few minutes ago, I looked at what I'd typed, decided that it was misspelled, somehow, and then gave it a second, long look.
It still looked wrong, but I could not figure out what it was, and then it hit me. Nothing was wrong. Go figure.
Weird.
Anyway, although I've fulfilled my goal of 4,000 words for the day, I'd like to finish 3 more pages, for a total of 17 for the day. That'll put me about 33% of the way through the document. Then I can turn my attention to finishing the process I started by having FineReader analyze that incoming fax from yesterday (the spell check is complete; the saved file, though, does not reflect the tabular form of the original).
Cheers...
