Author Archives: Charlie

Event: UKTI Legal webinar

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Charlie

Avid readers will recall that last month, by virtue of following @UKTIFrance on Twitter, I attended a webinar on “The French Economy”. This month, the same organisation presented one on “Legal Aspects of Doing Business in France”, given by an … Continue reading →

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Review: Linguist article on community translation

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Charlie

I am not sure I have ever been more irritated by an article in The Linguist. I speak of the Oct-Nov 2013 edition of the said organ, entitled “Power of the crowd”, subtitled “Community translation: friend, foe or no big … Continue reading →

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Event: UKTI webinar

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Charlie

I’m not sure how much general awareness there is of this crew, but somehow or other, I have ended up following @UKTIFrance on Twitter, being the French arm of UK Trade and Industry (UKTI). There are any number of UKTIxxxx … Continue reading →

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Event: IAPTI 2013

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Charlie

IAPTI Conference 5 October 2013 And so it was that I was out of the house before I am usually even awake on a Saturday to hit the Hilton hotel for IAPTI’s first conference. Given the calibre of those involved, … Continue reading →

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Corrosion of confidentiality II

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Charlie

Towards the end of last year, I blogged about whether all the material we, as translators, are bound, explicitly or implicitly, to keep confidential really warranted the “confidential” tag. My context (!) was cloud services and GT, and whether using … Continue reading →

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HMRC help themselves

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Charlie

I switched from self-employment to limited company this financial year (see this previous post). In so doing, I changed banks for business banking, switching from the world’s local money launderers to the home of the Libor liars (I’ve got a … Continue reading →

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In the beginning…

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Charlie

I was recently led to reflect on my first steps in finding clients. In the case in point, I was led by the nose by an apparently notorious WUM/troll, but genuine cases arise often enough for me to wish I … Continue reading →

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Event: Talk on IATE

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Charlie

On Friday 18th Jan, I attended a most informative talk at Europe House, Smith Square, Olde London Towne on the subject of terminology and IATE, given by the knowledgeable and engaging Timothy Cooper, a senior terminologist at the EU. The … Continue reading →

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Rage Against The Machine

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Charlie

Following on from my post two days ago (in which I wondered whether the scope of confidentiality could usefully be reduced in a translation context), the question is, given a great deal of the information translators receive is deemed confidential, … Continue reading →

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