Richard Sikes

Globalization/Localization Consultant

[Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech]

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World Canine Union action revealed by memoQ!

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My younger son, Riho, who is studying Engineering & Society at McMaster University, needs input for a research project he is conducting. It consists of two short answer questions. If you have a moment and wish to contribute, here's the URL: https://t.co/D9cC6203ck

Thanks! -r

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@twilliability @dietweeterei Check out the books by John McWhorter, for example, The Story of Human Language or The Power of Babel. Especially good as audiobooks to hear him dictate examples.

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Today Alessandra Binazzi, Aki Ito, and I held a planning session in our virtual offices for our "So You Wanna Be a Consultant" session at #LocWorldWide43 . It is session P3 in the Global ToolBox preconference day track. Check it out! https://t.co/dVNoswPIzP

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@amclind @SDLJames Leapfrog

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@Jeromobot I sometimes wonder what compelled me to leave Oregon all those years ago. Not that Toronto is a bad place to live.

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@twilliability When Linda and I lived and worked in Germany, we sometimes rather cynically referred to ourselves as Edelausländer. We both had very good "white collar" jobs with unlimited ability to live and work there. There's no really good English translation. Maybe "noble foreigners."

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@SDLJames I sometimes switch to German, which is NOT my mother tongue to say things because there are some things that one just can say more expressively in that language than in English.

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@textexin Ha!

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Waiting for me at home...

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@Jeromobot Ah, life in Oregon! 😋

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The meme I created won the meme contest here at the GlobalSaké conference?

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At the airport on my way to the GlobalSaké conference in San Francisco. Reception tonight. Conference tomorrow.

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@amclind Will be able to compete next week. Headed to Kicking Horse in Eastern British Columbia next week for a week! 😋

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@textexin Tex, you are looking better every day!

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@textexin I will pose the question to the group tomorrow if I have an opportunity.

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Translation Technology Roundtable Soundbyte: "In the next 10 years, translation tools will disappear into other technologies such as CMSs as a subfunction of a greater offering."

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Translation Technology Roundtable Soundbyte: "There's a business case nowadays for creating super-clean TMs for the exclusive purpose of training MT engines."

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Translation Technology Roundtable: How do you clean up your TM? "Deprecation by age; deprecation by frequency of TU usage; alignment checks, terminology checks, successive project deprecation, population of TM only from final deliverables."

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Tranlation Technology Roundtable Soundbyte: How do you clean up your TM? "However you do it, back up your TM first!"