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How to get rid of the “Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies” error in Trados Studio

A post for translators working with WorldServer WSXZ packages As it is already known, starting from version 2021, Trados Studio has forgotten how to work with WSXZ packages out of the box. To work with them, you need to install a special plug-in beforehand: WorldServer Compatibility Pack for SDL Trados Studio. To download the plug-in, an […]

How to get rid of the “ActiveX control cannot be instantiated because the current thread is not in a single-threaded apartment” error in Trados Studio

We’ve caught another Trados Studio error Here is the message: ActiveX control <…> cannot be instantiated because the current thread is not in a single-threaded apartment. It can be translated into human language as follows: “Something has happened somewhere, and it can be removed in some way. And now press OK because you have no […]

How to get rid of the “We found problems with some of the filenames in this package and we will attempt to fix them” error in Trados Studio

A Trados Studio error that occurs in a regular situation This Trados Studio error occurs when you try importing a return package from the translator: We found problems with some of the filenames in this package and we will attempt to fix them. We recommend that you verify the filenames after the import is done. […]

How to watch lots of webinars and stay sane

Chaotic notes from someone who watches lots of webinars * * * Increasing playback speed is a life-saving action. YouTube provides two magical key combinations: SHIFT + → (speed up by 25%) і SHIFT + ← (slow down by 25%). You can speed up a video a maximum of 2 times and slow it down up to 4 times. You tend […]

Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre

An interesting and little-known story about the liter symbol The preamble. There is a general rule: if a unit of measurement is named after a person, its symbol must be capitalized. Example: there was once a lord Kelvin, named William Thomson. The unit of temperature measurement was named after him, kelvin. It is a common […]

Video Game Localization into Ukrainian

Before 2022, most video games were localized into Ukrainian by amateurs, so Ukrainian gamers could only dream of playing AAA games in their language. This seemed especially unfair, considering that Ukraine is a nation of 40 million people, at least half of whom would prefer a Ukrainian interface. It took a war to change this. For many […]

How to get rid of the “Failed to save target content: The illustration <…> was moved between paragraphs” error in Trados Studio

Sometimes it is easier to remove an error than to find its reason Here is what we’ve got this time: Failed to save target content: The illustration <…> was moved between paragraphs. The error occurs when you try generating a “clean” translated document. The message suggests that the document has undergone either source editing or […]

Everybody paints!

About neural art: DALL-E, Midjourney, Starryai, etc. Neural networks, such as DALL-E, which generate impossible realistic images with a text description have brought dramatic distress among artists, especially illustrators and graphic designers. Why learn to paint if the computer can paint more, better, and more quickly? Today, it is hard to say what kind of future […]

About the differences between human and machine translation

Semi-philosophical note 1. Translation is technically sense rendering. 2. Machines are unable to operate senses. Conclusion: machine translation is no translation. “Machine translation” is an oxymoron: translation cannot be done by a machine. If it is performed by a machine, it is no translation; if it is performed by a human, it is not machine […]