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Either a very good April Fool\'s Day joke... or really bad news for translators. : )
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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!
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FrancescoP 
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TOPIC STARTER | April 1st at Proz.com! How funny! | Apr 1, 2002 |
[Edited at 2003-08-29 15:57]
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FrancescoP
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TOPIC STARTER | Congratulation for your brilliant research Mario! | Apr 1, 2002 |
[Edited at 2003-08-29 15:58]
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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!
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FrancescoP
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TOPIC STARTER
[Edited at 2003-08-29 15:58]
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Werner George Patels, M.A., C.Tran.(ATIO) (X)
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Quote:
On 2002-04-01 23:43, FrancescoP wrote:
William Gates is not an alien... after all!
Are you sure????? 
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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.
[addsig]
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Paul Roige (X)
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And that chameleon fell right on my head while I was praying to Shiva not to let BG invade us... splash!
Om to all
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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... See more 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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TOPIC STARTER | Reply to hgtrad. | Apr 4, 2002 |
[ This Message was edited by:on2003-01-07 18:11]
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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).
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FrancescoP
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TOPIC STARTER | Microsoft Encarta? | Apr 6, 2002 |
[ This Message was edited by:on2003-01-07 18:12]
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