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Linguinews * * * And about cats. Another piece of news: XTM Mobile 2.3 has been released. Smartcat has also introduced a preview for Microsoft Word documents, here they show how it works.

It doesn’t have to be like that. Most people working on a computer with only two languages switch them with the help of the CTRL + SHIFT key combination and have no problems with that (we are talking about Windows). It may become even easier with Punto Switcher. But as soon as there are more than two languages in the system, the […]

Extraordinary errors we describe in individual posts. Trados Studio is a source of numerous errors, which sometimes are quite exotic. Troubleshooting methods are [or should be] described in the help section of the SDL portal. Many of them are gathered by hashtag #tradosstudio on our website. If you encounter a mysterious error, check the main trouble spots before […]

Being a translator is a difficult profession, although it is not considered so by the wider public. In addition to technical difficulties, human issues often arise in translation projects, such as frustrated expectations, misunderstandings, and omissions. Every agency has its own stories, some funny, some sad. Usually, they are recounted in an informal setting, without naming […]

Linguinews

Trados Studio is taciturn, but the error can be fixed. The error message looks like this: The message The requested data file could not be located appears when one is trying to start Trados Studio. It is extremely laconic: what file exactly it lacks, where it must be located, why it is needed—who knows. This problem can occur […]

Surprise, we have a pseudo-anglicism here! The English language has an extraordinary phrase, “face control.” It might come as a surprise to you that the word came into English from Russian. It is one example of so-called reborrowing. The term was born in Russian during the “wild ’90s” in CIS countries. Back then, at a time when people […]

Proceeding to stage 2 in fighting the “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” error in Trados Studio. This is the second (and not final yet) part of the post about the multifaceted Object reference not set to an instance of an object error. You can find the first part here. The error has many causes, which means there […]

A few words about the renowned editor and tricky aspectsof the English language. Mary Norris, a copy editor for The New Yorker, shares her thoughts on whether it is necessary to add possessive case endings to English nouns ending in s or whether adding an apostrophe is enough. Should one write Hercules’ or Hercules’s? Descartes’ or Descartes’s? This is no idle issue for Mary. […]

A few words about the changes in the new memoQ version. Recently, a new memoQ version has been released—9.4. Key changes: And a lot of other stuff has been added.