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Eugenia Corbo
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April 1st Apr 1, 2002

Either a very good April Fool\'s Day joke... or really bad news for translators. : )



 
Mario Abbiccì
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Easter Eggs and Chicken Thieves Apr 1, 2002

Its success went even beyond ProZ,

since I spotted a copycat at work

at http://www.accessnewage.com/articles/humor/microyok.htm



Of course they used a different title (Microsoft Bids to Acquire Catholic Church),

ah the infamous camouflage!



 
FrancescoP
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April 1st at Proz.com! How funny! Apr 1, 2002



[Edited at 2003-08-29 15:57]


 
FrancescoP
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Congratulation for your brilliant research Mario! Apr 1, 2002



[Edited at 2003-08-29 15:58]


 
Paul Roige (X)
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that was horrific Apr 1, 2002

You couldn\'t devise anything worse. I still get shivers down my spine... Now I can\'t sleep, my right eye\'s twitching, I hear noises everywhere and when I close my eyes I see B.G.\'s head in flames laughing like a madman while hammering down an iMac. Need a shrink, now.

You get a price too: the Orson Welles of the Year

:-O aaaaaaargh!









 
FrancescoP
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Sorry Paul! Apr 1, 2002



[Edited at 2003-08-29 15:58]


 
Werner George Patels, M.A., C.Tran.(ATIO) (X)
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Alien? Apr 2, 2002

Quote:


On 2002-04-01 23:43, FrancescoP wrote:



William Gates is not an alien... after all!







Are you sure?????

 
AndrewBM
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It's good for you to laugh Apr 2, 2002

someone nearly collapsed falling off the tree, dismayed by the news.




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Paul Roige (X)
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Yes Andrew Apr 2, 2002

And that chameleon fell right on my head while I was praying to Shiva not to let BG invade us... splash!

Om to all



 
hgtrad
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The nightmare has already begun! Apr 3, 2002

M$ invasion of translation business has already begun. After they invested in Trados (one of the worst software ripoffs, save M$ Office), they started to require that translators use that...thing.

Benefits for M$:

-force selling a 200% useless product (as usual)

-paying less for so-called \"pre-translated\" strings to the translator (which in fact require twice more work from the translator to make a decent translation)



Also, M$ started its inva
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M$ invasion of translation business has already begun. After they invested in Trados (one of the worst software ripoffs, save M$ Office), they started to require that translators use that...thing.

Benefits for M$:

-force selling a 200% useless product (as usual)

-paying less for so-called \"pre-translated\" strings to the translator (which in fact require twice more work from the translator to make a decent translation)



Also, M$ started its invasion into english language itself. Heard about M$ Dictionary of

Universal(!) English?

As in software, M$ is trying to impose its own twisted \"standards\".



One last word for TAYFUN TORUNOGLU, who is grateful for Windows UI:

the graphical UI existed on Macintosh & Amiga many years before M$ copied it.

The only new thing brought by M$ to the UI was that wonderful blue screen \"fatal error at xxxx\"

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FrancescoP
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Reply to hgtrad. Apr 4, 2002



[ This Message was edited by:on2003-01-07 18:11]


 
Werner George Patels, M.A., C.Tran.(ATIO) (X)
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MS dictionary Apr 4, 2002

I think hgtrad was referring to the Microsoft Encarta \"World English Dictionary\" (published about 3-4 years ago).

 
FrancescoP
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Microsoft Encarta? Apr 6, 2002



[ This Message was edited by:on2003-01-07 18:12]


 
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