Comments | discountsatori: The all-night grammar party

discountsatori

The all-night grammar party

Aug 15, 2006 23:13

Last Thursday night through Friday morning, I discovered that pulling an all-nighter for work is a whole lot better than pulling an all-nighter for school. The coffee's fancier, there's overtime pay to be had, and your co-workers never expect you to say something like, "I really have been working on this project for 36 hours straight!" I really had ( Read more... )

language, pathetic tales, jobbyness

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bettyray August 16 2006, 04:54:29 UTC

Condo Lisa Rise = funniest thing I've read in ages

she_rambles August 16 2006, 05:04:48 UTC

I have no idea what half of that stuff was meant to mean, and that's after dealing with Japanese-English for two and a half years (AND I understand cricket!). I hope you were well paid for all that.

birdprints August 16 2006, 05:19:55 UTC

I'm on vacation with my mother, and we both have colds. I read this out loud to her and we nearly suffocated laughing-- especially when I got to the part about the she camels and Condo Lisa Rise.

I hope your circadian rhythms have gotten back to normal.

tiffanytwisted_ August 16 2006, 10:02:32 UTC

Hehe! Changez Khan! Love it...

I have exactly the same problem with not being able to dissapoint people. I had a client dump a huge amount of work on me this week, which he needs back within seven days, and even although this client does this ALL the time, I still don't feel able to say, "Sorry, I need more notice than this," or even "Yes, but the short notice will cost you extra". Not quite at the stage of the all-nighters, though, and I'm pretty sure I'd be sobbing over my laptop too if that ever came to pass!

davidfrazer August 16 2006, 11:19:55 UTC

Instead of trying to fix the bad translations it would surely have been easier to have the original Urdu articles translated properly, but I suppose that, since they had already been "translated", no-one was going to pay for them to be done again.

discountsatori August 16 2006, 18:01:10 UTC

Funny you say that, since the second phase of the project, which is a bunch of Bengali-to-"English" translations, was so completely incomprehensible that we had to send it back. I thought the Urdenglish articles were bad, but the Bengali (Bengalenglish?) stuff was much, much worse.