I think there's a pretty big disconnect between telling kids that they have to face up to and accept the possibility of school shooting as a fact of life and then punishing them for joking about a terrorist attack that happened before they were born. Obviously not saying that anyone here is directly involved in either or both of those things, but I can't really imagine how shitty it would feel to watch the old tragedy be put on a pedestal while the current one that impacts them every day is dismissed and minimized.
I’m not the first one to make this point, but the way society abstracted 9/11 from the events of the day to justify atrocities means that it’s absurd to get mad at students for joking about it. Mocking 9/11 is way closer to mocking the reaction to it rather than any kind of endorsement of a terrorist attack.
It was in bad taste.
Columbine was before they were born too. Would that be an appropriate costume?
I don't care if someone wants to make a 9/11 joke, but dressing up is a bit much.
I am sure they enjoyed the attention and head shaking. I did dumb stuff as a kid for attention too. I also thought I was edgy, cool, and original for doing so. So, I get that part.
Columbine was before they were born too. Would that be an appropriate costume?
I don't care if someone wants to make a 9/11 joke, but dressing up is a bit much.
I am sure they enjoyed the attention and head shaking. I did dumb stuff as a kid for attention too. I also thought I was edgy, cool, and original for doing so. So, I get that part.
Sure, I don't disagree with that. Having a conversation with them about why it might have more of an impact on the teacher than on themselves or their fellow students seems like it'd be a fair response that might lead to a learning moment, too. Sending them to the principal's office, presumably with further lectures and punishment to follow, feels like it's a bit much, given the added context I mentioned before.
If the principal's response was to have that conversation, tell them to take the costume off, and send them back to class then I mostly don't have an objection beyond that observation about the constant implication that the deaths before they were born matter more than their peers getting killed, which is still super shitty and can't help but be reinforced by things like this.
Oh, I never said it wasn't in bad taste. Calling them to the office and telling them why is entirely the right call. My issue was the belief that this is proof that society is doomed and kids today are worse than they've ever been. Kids are the exact same as they've always been, we all did dumb stuff as kids.
Agreed. I am quite lucky my teenage antics aren't captured forever on the Internet.
What the source text said: "This industry is expected to drive US$6 billion euros in investment by 2025."
How the translator (ie me) reacted: "If this is the level of care you put into the source text, then quite frankly I'm going to give you a commensurate level of care as the translator."
How the translator (ie me) reacted: "If this is the level of care you put into the source text, then quite frankly I'm going to give you a commensurate level of care as the translator."
Me: Does a very hard and complex case.
Company higher-up: "You did this whole thing wrong and you need to do it over again."
Me: "I hate everything and everyone."
*****
Me: Redoes the very hard and complex case. It is delivered to the client.
Contact person at the client: "You guys did the whole thing completely wrong and you need to do it over again." (Turns out the way the client wanted it was different from what I and my company higher-up thought.)
Me: "I hate everything and everyone in the universe."
*****
Me: Redoes the very hard and complex case again. It is delivered to the client again.
Client's company higher-up: "The translation company did the whole thing completely wrong and they need to do it all over again." (Turns out the way the client's company higher-ups wanted it was different from what I, my company higher-up, and the contact person thought. Though my company higher-up was closest.)
Me: "I hate everything and everyone in the universe with the fire of a million suns."
*****
So that's where we are now. We want to tell the client that we can't keep redoing this case for them ad nauseam, but they're also a pretty major client of ours so we don't want to piss them off either, so... I may soon be discovering new ways to hate.
Company higher-up: "You did this whole thing wrong and you need to do it over again."
Me: "I hate everything and everyone."
*****
Me: Redoes the very hard and complex case. It is delivered to the client.
Contact person at the client: "You guys did the whole thing completely wrong and you need to do it over again." (Turns out the way the client wanted it was different from what I and my company higher-up thought.)
Me: "I hate everything and everyone in the universe."
*****
Me: Redoes the very hard and complex case again. It is delivered to the client again.
Client's company higher-up: "The translation company did the whole thing completely wrong and they need to do it all over again." (Turns out the way the client's company higher-ups wanted it was different from what I, my company higher-up, and the contact person thought. Though my company higher-up was closest.)
Me: "I hate everything and everyone in the universe with the fire of a million suns."
*****
So that's where we are now. We want to tell the client that we can't keep redoing this case for them ad nauseam, but they're also a pretty major client of ours so we don't want to piss them off either, so... I may soon be discovering new ways to hate.
But this Warhammer crap did totally copy Warcraft!
So we have a client, let's say it's a software company in China, and they have their own end client, let's say it's a car company in Italy. The car company hired the Chinese software company to make an in-vehicle software suite, for example the stuff for the touchscreen, the in-vehicle features, etc.
The software company designed the UI in English. However, they are a Chinese company, so their English is not great. But the Italians don't know that, so they looked over the completed English version of the software, and didn't notice that there were a bunch of errors in the terminology or phrasing (eg. "setup" instead of "settings", "bored" instead of "board", "no signal transmitted" instead of "no signal detected" etc.). Instead, the Italian car company said, "Okay, now translate this English version of the software into 32 different languages!"
So the software company came to us, the translation company, and said, "Translate the strings from this software into 32 different languages. Due to confidentiality reasons, we can only give you a list of strings, we can't show you screenshots or tell you anything more about how the software works."
So we got 32 different translators from almost as many countries to do the translations. And then the software company sent the translations over to the Italians, so naturally the Italians took a look at the Italian version of the software, and they were all like, "This Italian version is shit! WTF are you guys doing?" So the Chinese software company came to us and said, "Our Italian clients said the Italian translation is shit! What are we paying you for?"
And we're all like, "Considering the limitations and demands you placed on us, we actually think we did very well..." Ha ha no, I kid, there's no chance we could say that. Instead what we said was "Okay, we're dispatching our most senior and most awesome English editor to meet with you guys to clarify what the English is meant to be saying."
So that's what I'm going to be doing next week, it seems. And since I actually wasn't involved in this case at all at first, it looks like I'm also going to need a crash course in software development, in-vehicle software suites, and possibly Italian.
The software company designed the UI in English. However, they are a Chinese company, so their English is not great. But the Italians don't know that, so they looked over the completed English version of the software, and didn't notice that there were a bunch of errors in the terminology or phrasing (eg. "setup" instead of "settings", "bored" instead of "board", "no signal transmitted" instead of "no signal detected" etc.). Instead, the Italian car company said, "Okay, now translate this English version of the software into 32 different languages!"
So the software company came to us, the translation company, and said, "Translate the strings from this software into 32 different languages. Due to confidentiality reasons, we can only give you a list of strings, we can't show you screenshots or tell you anything more about how the software works."
So we got 32 different translators from almost as many countries to do the translations. And then the software company sent the translations over to the Italians, so naturally the Italians took a look at the Italian version of the software, and they were all like, "This Italian version is shit! WTF are you guys doing?" So the Chinese software company came to us and said, "Our Italian clients said the Italian translation is shit! What are we paying you for?"
And we're all like, "Considering the limitations and demands you placed on us, we actually think we did very well..." Ha ha no, I kid, there's no chance we could say that. Instead what we said was "Okay, we're dispatching our most senior and most awesome English editor to meet with you guys to clarify what the English is meant to be saying."
So that's what I'm going to be doing next week, it seems. And since I actually wasn't involved in this case at all at first, it looks like I'm also going to need a crash course in software development, in-vehicle software suites, and possibly Italian.
... But the good thing is their flying you out to Rome for six weeks all expenses paid?
... Yeah I figured.
Psht, if there's one thing that made huge leaps and strides in the pandemic years, it's videoconferencing technology.
The Principal at the school I work at is out with covid. She was in a series of meetings yesterday with nearly every teacher in the building and was sharing cookies and candy with them. We don't do quarantines anymore. My run of not having gotten covid might be coming to an end.
The day that I got covid back in ‘22, I spent the whole morning with my girlfriend. We drove places in a car when I had no mask on, we hung out in a house with no mask on, etc. She never got covid despite me being around her, even in an enclosed space.
If you’re up to date on your vaccines, there’s a decent chance you’ll be fine.
I am the lone survivor at work in management, also the only one who went and got vaxxed, because everyone else was "for X reason, I dont need to get my shots."
We need to go get the very latest booster, but otherwise, yes, gotten all the other covid shots.
Same thing happened to us last year when Mr. Z caught it. We were in close quarters the whole day or two before he started showing symptoms, and Li'l Z and I never caught it. But Li'l Z and I had just gotten our updated vaxxes, and Mr. Z was due for his when he caught it.
WHELP, my giant pot has exactly ONE small hole right near the 4 qt mark, so THAT'S annoyed.
Cooking my turkey stock in a crockpot and my popcorn cauldron, hate splitting the broth, I like it all combined.
Cooking my turkey stock in a crockpot and my popcorn cauldron, hate splitting the broth, I like it all combined.