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Urgh. I win, maybe. I just spent what feels like several hours (but wasn't even one) tracking down a term. Usually, it's easy; the French has a direct, or mostly direct, English translation. This one doesn't quite, and also has a spelling quirk that sent me off down the wrong path for quite a while. The term in French is "signes séquellaires", the English translation of which, in context, is "sequelae". (I hate it when the English equivalent of a French term is in Latin.)
( Herein, an account of the battle )
If anybody ever gets around to re-inventing or expanding Google, I wish they'd include a wildcard function. Granted, that would mean you have to slog through a lot more results, most of which aren't what you meant, but it would be tremendously useful to be able to plug in the parts of a phrase before and after the word I want, and somehow get Google to recognize that I want all of those words in that order, but with one or two words in the middle. Sometimes, but not often, that works if I put the before section and the after section in quotation marks and search for that. Usually it finds the first part, and then finds the second part halfway down the page someplace.
I also got another three hours or so of work in on the glossary, except I didn't do what I went there for in the first place. I meant to take all the rest of the terms I proved while I was translating and put them in the glossary. What I really ought to do is take all the highlighted terms out of my translations, put them in a separate list, compare that with the glossary I've already got, and see how much more work I have to do on it. I only need about 60 terms for the purposes of the case study, but one of my articles is so technical that if I'm being sufficiently thorough with both articles, I'll probably end up with 100 terms or so. Methinks I ought to ask about that.
This is why I need to be an amoeba. Having arguments like that with terminology burns my brain out fairly badly, and I should use every spare minute I've got on weekdays looking for an apartment and applying for jobs, but with only one brain I can't do that.
It feels like it should be Friday, but it's felt like that since yesterday, so if you ask me what day it is, I'd probably say April.
( Herein, an account of the battle )
If anybody ever gets around to re-inventing or expanding Google, I wish they'd include a wildcard function. Granted, that would mean you have to slog through a lot more results, most of which aren't what you meant, but it would be tremendously useful to be able to plug in the parts of a phrase before and after the word I want, and somehow get Google to recognize that I want all of those words in that order, but with one or two words in the middle. Sometimes, but not often, that works if I put the before section and the after section in quotation marks and search for that. Usually it finds the first part, and then finds the second part halfway down the page someplace.
I also got another three hours or so of work in on the glossary, except I didn't do what I went there for in the first place. I meant to take all the rest of the terms I proved while I was translating and put them in the glossary. What I really ought to do is take all the highlighted terms out of my translations, put them in a separate list, compare that with the glossary I've already got, and see how much more work I have to do on it. I only need about 60 terms for the purposes of the case study, but one of my articles is so technical that if I'm being sufficiently thorough with both articles, I'll probably end up with 100 terms or so. Methinks I ought to ask about that.
This is why I need to be an amoeba. Having arguments like that with terminology burns my brain out fairly badly, and I should use every spare minute I've got on weekdays looking for an apartment and applying for jobs, but with only one brain I can't do that.
It feels like it should be Friday, but it's felt like that since yesterday, so if you ask me what day it is, I'd probably say April.
