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Controlling faces

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 […]

We are excited to share the important news with you!

This June our company was certified according to ISO 17100:2015 (Translation services: Requirements for translation services) and ISO 18587:2017 (Translation services: Post-editing of machine translation output) standards! Since its founding in 2010, Technolex has been ready and willing to create a high quality product by following the international standards of the translation industry. Thanks to […]

Mary Norris, the Comma Queen

A few words about the renowned editor and tricky aspects of 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 […]

New memoQ version 9.4

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.

How to remove the “An error occurred whilst trying to determine the file version” error in Trados Studio

In most cases, projects that have disappeared from Trados Studio can be restored Another post about Trados Studio errors. The symptoms of the disease are as follows: one fine day you start Trados Studio, and it displays the “An error occurred whilst trying to determine the file version” message: You press the OK button (there is nothing else to press here anyway). Trados Studio starts […]

The CovidTM translation memory by Smartcat

Smartcat decided to create an open-access translation memory based on the materials about the coronavirus The same goes for Smartcat. It has become complicated these days to write a post without mentioning the name of this ill-fated virus. Taking into account the numerous texts about the coronavirus, epidemics, etc. being hastily translated in all language directions, Smartcat decided to […]

Free QA Distiller

In the time of the pandemic, many developers are trying to help their clients Starting from April 1 and version 9.3.5, QA Distiller (also known as QAD), a semi-automated translation quality assessment program, has become free. No, it’s not a joke. QAD is a competitor of Xbench, Verifika, and other similar programs. It has been offered in three versions so far: Freelance, Professional, and […]