Type your own in the url...

When you click “accept” by accident in spellcheck

Friendly reminder that QA tools are supposed to be helpful, not make me spend ages justifying myself as if I don't know what I'm doing and a piece of software is somehow a better linguist than me.

"Who even needs translators, WE'LL SHOW YOU!!!"

(Disclaimer: I haven't read the original piece because I wouldn't touch The Sun with a ten-foot pole)

When the client uses memes in their instructions

When you find an error in a locked segment and you realise it was you who wrote it in 2011

Really straightforward text but in a tool that thinks it’s from NASA

'Client X came back.' 'Client Y came back.' Jesus is about to come back. Everyone comes back. Everyone, except my youth.

Going to comment in the query portal for ALL the language teams and feeling like a Eurovision presenter. Hand me my sequins, I'm about to shout 'GOOD EVENING, EUROPE!

CAT tool improvement suggestion

Some fanfare when I reach 100%. You know I deserve it.

Things you randomly learn as a translator

In Taiwan, Ed Sheeran is commonly known as (local language equivalent of) 'Ed the Red Hair'.  :) <3

“Are you available for 24 hours of LQA?”

Fellow Scandis will appreciate <3

Garlic shrug

You musn’t forget to add lots of butter and parsley, and a touch of tarragon.

Scuse, I am vegan

Submission

Our partners in France think our French website contains too much French.

I’m at a loss for words, so… Gallic shrug, eye roll

I misread this as GARLIC SHRUG...

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