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Selling Translations® & memoQ Weekend Workshops, 6th &7th Oct 2012 Lærdansk Odense Denmark

September 6, 2012 By Doug Lawrence Leave a Comment

I’ll be running a joint workshop weekend with long time friend and ex-Trados colleague Lone Beheshty. The workshop will take place at the Lærdansk centre in Odense (Hans Christian Andersen’s birth place!). I’ll be delivering a Selling Translations® Sales & Marketing workshop with a focus on making translation technology investments a competitive advantage rather than just another cost. Lone will cover memoQ […]

Filed Under: Sales Techniques, Selling Translations Events, Selling Translations®, Translation Industry, Translation Industry Associations, Translation Technology, Travel Tagged With: Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen, Kommunikation og Sprog, Lærdansk Odense, Lone Beheshty, memoQ, Translatørforeningen, Violinkasser

Joint ITI East and West Midlands Group 2012 Summer Walk at Calke Abbey

July 22, 2012 By Doug Lawrence Leave a Comment

The weather held out for another excellent ITI summer group walk. This time held jointly with the East and West Midlands ITI regional groups at Calke Abbey on Saturday 21 July 2012. You can see the rest of the pictures or a slide show on my Flickr account. Calke Abbey is a National Trust property near Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It is at the heart […]

Filed Under: ITI, Translation Industry, Travel, UK Tagged With: Calke Abbey, ITI West Midlands Group, Real Men Drink Milk Blog

The translation industry should see beyond stereotypes

July 4, 2012 By Doug Lawrence 2 Comments

IMHO it is wrong, plain dumb, and ridiculous for anyone in the language industry to boycott or ‘ban using the services’ of another provider based on gender, ethnicity, race, country of origin, religion, language, sexual orientation, physical capability and any of the other many diversity categories. What’s brought about this politically motivated statement? Apparently some […]

Filed Under: Translation Industry, Travel Tagged With: British Mandate for Palestine, Israel, Israel Translators Association (ITA), Israeli, Middle East, Palestine, Palestinian people, Translation Industry Associations, Translation Industry Conferences and Events

Madrid Night Bike Rally Video 28th June 2012

June 29, 2012 By Doug Lawrence Leave a Comment

Almost 5 minutes of very happy people cycling and in some cases roller-skating by at the corner … [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mONUGMrJHtE&w=560&h=315]

Filed Under: Spain, Travel Tagged With: Madrid, night bike, night cycle, night cycle rally, Roller skates, Roller skating, Spain

Compare and Contrast: Madrid Summer Evening with English Summer Day

June 28, 2012 By Doug Lawrence Leave a Comment

Shakespeare wrote ‘Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Day?’ (Sonnet 18), did he really mean an English Summer’s day? If so I’m not sure it was a compliment …

Filed Under: Spain, Travel Tagged With: English summer day, Madrid, Shakespeare Sonnet 18

Midnight in Madrid after 4-2 Penalty win against Portugal Euro 2012 28th June 2012

June 28, 2012 By Doug Lawrence Leave a Comment

I was told that the big celebration will be saved for Sunday, but there were still many people happy to celebrate the win against Portugal – even though the police where out to stop people celebrating at the central fountains. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8_ENcgzJ20&w=560&h=315] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm9Xl_3GlL8&w=560&h=315]  

Filed Under: Spain, Travel Tagged With: Football, Madrid, Soccer

Bulglish: The use of English and the Latin Alphabet in Bulgarian

April 11, 2012 By Doug Lawrence Leave a Comment

Bulgaria has a range of Bulgarian/English (Bulglish), which along with the choice of latinization of words reflects Bulgaria’s willingness to engage with Europe and the English-speaking world whilst maintaining their Bulgarian cultural identity. “McDonald’s localization” is always an interesting yardstick. I didn’t see any examples of the company logo being written in Cyrillic – which […]

Filed Under: Bulgarian | български, Language, Travel Tagged With: Bulgaria, Bulgish, Cyrillic - Bulgarian | Кирилица - Български, Localisation, localization, McDonald's, Sofia, Worldlish, Writing

GBP 1m first class train journey!

April 5, 2012 By Doug Lawrence 1 Comment

OK it’s probably a mistake, but it is a real screen shot I took when booking a train ticket in December 2011. GBP 1m is quite expensive for a local journey!

Filed Under: Travel, UK Tagged With: England train tickets

Doug’s Country Vegetarian Score Card for: Bulgaria

April 3, 2012 By Doug Lawrence Leave a Comment

Context Country: Bulgaria. Language(s): Bulgarian (български). Length of stay(s): 3 visits of approximately 12 days in total, including Sofia, Vidin, Koshava, and Plovdiv. Main issues Understanding of concept: Younger people generally understand what a vegetarian is. Availability: Very good. Choice of menu: Similar to a Mediterranean diet. Excellent for lacto-ovo vegetarian, eggs and cheese readily available. Quality: Very good Value for money: Excellent at time of writing […]

Filed Under: Bulgarian | български, Doug's Country Vegetarian Score Card, Milk, Travel, Vegetarianism Tagged With: Bulgaria, Cyrillic - Bulgarian | Кирилица - Български, Ovo-lacto vegetarianism, Plovdiv, Sofia, Vegetarianism

Elena Ivanova pottery artist in Plovdiv Bulgaria throwing on a potter’s wheel

April 1, 2012 By Doug Lawrence 1 Comment

Elena Ivanova (Елена Иванова), a pottery artist in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (Пловдив, България), who hand throws decorative pottery.

Filed Under: Bulgarian | български, Language, Travel Tagged With: Bulgaria, Bulgarian Pottery, Cyrillic - Bulgarian | Кирилица - Български, Doug Lawrence, Elena Ivanova, Hand made pottery, Plovdiv, Plovdiv Bulgaria, Potters Wheel, Pottery, Russian Cyrillic | Кириллица, Writing Systems, българия, грънчарство, гръчарско колело, дъг лорънс, Елена Иванова, пловдив, ръчна изработка

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