http://aqtext.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:08:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://aqtext.com/blog/business_blogs/ http://aqtext.com/blog/business_blogs/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:53:39 +0000 Leah http://aqtext.com/?p=463 For many small business owners, marketing is a necessary evil, pushed aside by urgent deadlines, everyday tasks, and an occasional crisis. It is one of those important, but not urgent tasks, categorized by Stephen Covey" width="1" height="1" title="Business building Blogs for Small Business Owners" /> in [...]]]> http://aqtext.com/blog/business_blogs/feed/ 2 http://aqtext.com/blog/guest-post-must-know-time-saving-tip-for-writers-and-translators/ http://aqtext.com/blog/guest-post-must-know-time-saving-tip-for-writers-and-translators/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:22:29 +0000 Leah http://aqtext.com/?p=460 I am excited to introduce a guest post by Miryam Blum, a seasoned Hebrew<>English translator, who has been translating articles for the financial pages of Haaretz/TheMarker for over ten years and has a freelance business, translating mainly academic articles and PR films [...]]]> http://aqtext.com/blog/guest-post-must-know-time-saving-tip-for-writers-and-translators/feed/ 3 http://aqtext.com/blog/google-translate/ http://aqtext.com/blog/google-translate/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:08:18 +0000 Leah http://aqtext.com/?p=454 Would you believe seeing a clause from Google’s Terms of Service could become a jaw-dropping experience for a group of professionals and business owners? Neither could I, until last week I presented a short resources workshop to a Jerusalem networking group. When asked whether they [...]]]> http://aqtext.com/blog/google-translate/feed/ 10 http://aqtext.com/blog/resources_for_translators/ http://aqtext.com/blog/resources_for_translators/#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 19:31:17 +0000 Leah http://aqtext.com/?p=447 Recently, I was asked to teach a resources workshop to aspiring translators as part of WritePoint’s translation course. Countless hours spent collating everything I have learnt during my decade in the industry and researching some things I have managed to miss,  produced too much material to squeeze [...]]]> http://aqtext.com/blog/resources_for_translators/feed/ 8 http://aqtext.com/blog/shoulder/ http://aqtext.com/blog/shoulder/#comments Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:08:38 +0000 Leah http://aqtext.com/?p=431 " width="304" height="262" />While on the road the other day, I came across this sign, recently put up by Maatz, the Israeli government agency responsible for road upkeep. Ironically, whoever authored the sign, got both the English and the Hebrew wrong. Since the sign refers to the shoulder only on one [...]]]> http://aqtext.com/blog/shoulder/feed/ 4 http://aqtext.com/blog/lost-in-mistranslation-photo-contest-results/ http://aqtext.com/blog/lost-in-mistranslation-photo-contest-results/#comments Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:35:36 +0000 Leah http://aqtext.com/?p=414 Our last month’s Lost in (Mis)translation photo contest attracted some hilarious translation mistake photos. Here is a sampling of the best submission. While circumnavigating the world, Kati came across this do-it-yourself translation [...]]]> http://aqtext.com/blog/lost-in-mistranslation-photo-contest-results/feed/ 1 http://aqtext.com/blog/lost-in-mistranslation-photo-contest/ http://aqtext.com/blog/lost-in-mistranslation-photo-contest/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:49:22 +0000 Leah http://aqtext.com/?p=379 With the joyous month of Adar upon us, AQText is sponsoring a photo contest for the funniest or most blatant translation or writing mistake. Here is your chance to win a $25 gift card from Amazon.com. How to participate: Upload a photo or image illustrating a funny or wrong translation [...]]]> http://aqtext.com/blog/lost-in-mistranslation-photo-contest/feed/ 6 http://aqtext.com/blog/twitter-translation-agreement/ http://aqtext.com/blog/twitter-translation-agreement/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:06:46 +0000 Leah http://aqtext.com/?p=317 Since posting an article on crowdsourcing yesterday, I have uncovered this “gem” – an excerpt from Twitter’s Translation Agreement (hat tip to Angel Dominguez). This is the very agreement that volunteer translators are required to sign before having the privilege [...]]]> http://aqtext.com/blog/twitter-translation-agreement/feed/ 1 http://aqtext.com/blog/crowdsourcing-translation/ http://aqtext.com/blog/crowdsourcing-translation/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:35:21 +0000 Leah http://aqtext.com/?p=310 As a college freshman (way back when), I took an advocacy workshop, during which one of the speakers screened a beer commercial similar to the following one and asked us to think about the company’s goal in creating the ad. After we rambled off the predictable patriotism [...]]]> http://aqtext.com/blog/crowdsourcing-translation/feed/ 11 http://aqtext.com/blog/writing-humanely-for-human-subjects/ http://aqtext.com/blog/writing-humanely-for-human-subjects/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:36:36 +0000 Leah http://aqtext.com/blog/writing-humanely-for-human-subjects/ Have you ever been on the receiving end of your work? I have. Last year, after arriving to the delivery room for the birth of my daughter, I was approached by a doctor with a request to take part in a clinical trial. Although it [...]]]> http://aqtext.com/blog/writing-humanely-for-human-subjects/feed/ 6