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Terminology in web translation

Nicolae Sfetcu — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:38:21 +0000

“During a particularly heated period of the economic crisis I noticed that the German terminology used by the media developed within a week. I made it my daily goal to always use up-to-date terminology in the homepage news.” Translators in … Read More

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Drupal concepts and terminology – Nodes and content types

Nicolae Sfetcu — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:52:25 +0000

Nodes and content types The node is the central element of content model used by Drupal. In its simplest version, a node is a generic object composed of a title and a text content. The power of Drupal is the … Read More

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International real estate terminology and practice

Nicolae Sfetcu — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:59:12 +0000

Real estate as “real property” in the U.K. In British usage, “real property”, often shortened to just “property”, generally refers to land and fixtures, while the term “real estate” is used mostly in the context of probate law, and means … Read More

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Boxcars

Nicolae Sfetcu — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:36:48 +0000

Boxcars is the outcome of rolling the dice in a game of craps and getting a 6 on each die. The pair of 6 pips resembles a pair of box cars on a freight train. In modern parlance, it refers … Read More

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Soft lines

Nicolae Sfetcu — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:51:59 +0000

Soft lines is a betting terminology representing betting odds that have been poorly researched by sportsbooks. Handicappers commonly use this term to emphasize the value of their play. Since handicappers can focus on a smaller subset of all the possible … Read More

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Terminology management software

Nicolae Sfetcu — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:36:49 +0000

Terminology management software provides the translator a means of automatically searching a given terminology database for terms appearing in a document, either by automatically displaying terms in the translation memory software interface window or through the use of hot keys … Read More

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White hat methods

Nicolae Sfetcu — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:46:01 +0000

So-called “white hat” methods of SEO involve following the search engines’ guidelines as to what is and what isn’t acceptable. Their advice generally is to create content for the user, not the search engines; to make that content easily accessible … Read More

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Misconceptions in translation

Nicolae Sfetcu — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:15:37 +0000

Newcomers to translation sometimes proceed as if translation were an exact science — as if consistent, one-to-one correlations existed between the words and phrases of different languages, rendering translations fixed and identically reproducible, much as in cryptography. Such novices may … Read More

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Crimp

Nicolae Sfetcu — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:54:04 +0000

In gambling terminology a crimp is a bend that has been intentionally made on the corner(s) of a playing card to facilitate identification.A card cheat will typically bend some of the important cards during the game. Below are just several … Read More

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Boxcars

Nicolae Sfetcu — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:53:56 +0000

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