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Amusing to tears In English, due to its twisted spelling, it is not always possible to exactly identify the word pronounced. What is meant by [raɪt]—right, rite, wright, write? Pronounced similarly and written differently, these words are called homophones. Lots of jokes are based on homophony. For instance, May 4 is celebrated as the so-called Star Wars Day because the […]

That infamous awkward moment On an annoyingly regular basis, we find ourselves in the same situation: some John Smith says, “Hey, I know you do translations professionally, and my daughter (sister, niece) just happens to have graduated with a linguistics degree and is now looking for a job. She speaks English (German, French) so great! […]

If Studio decided to divide by zero The fascinating TV show about Trados Studio errors continues!  The Error occurred in the file … Attempted to divide by zero error appears when you try to import a WSXZ package. The error is rare: Google knows about it by hearsay, and even if you use the link, you will find the description […]

No term base, no problem  MultiTerm is unable to create the termbase  This error sometimes flies out in Trados Studio when you try importing a WSXZ package exported from SDL WorldServer.  The reason for this error is simple: there is no target language in the structure of the termbase in the package. In other words, this is not […]

Pain and battle scars There are different methods for cutting a big SDLXLIFF Trados Studio file into several smaller ones. You can use a plugin designed specifically for this, SDLXLIFF Split/Merge. But be careful. It is terrific at splitting (to be completely honest, not that terrific, often rather whimsical) and terrible at merging. A painful case of practice: […]

Bad luck and a too lucky enemy A case from practice. We have received a project in Trados Studio. The file is only one, but huge, and the deadline is close. We were forced to cut it into pieces and assign them to different translators. It is not nice, but the client refuses to give more […]

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 […]

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