4.29.2016

Necessity is the mother of invention

"Difficult situations inspire ingenious solutions."
I had already written several separate files and then I wanted to change a word that was frequently repeated in most of the files. This necessity prompted me to investigate whether there was a software that could do it - et voilà!  This software existed: "Word Batch Replacer". Simple to use and effective! My problem was solved. Thank you, developers, for having thought about this necessity! 
http://www.opilsoft.com/wordbatchreplacer/

4.25.2016

Amongst and whilst

These days, it’s always “among” and “while”.

Which or that?

Whether it’s “which” or “that” depends on whether you want to listen to the convention police. You’re not wrong if you ignore it, but the convention is to reserve “which” for non-defining relative clauses (“The couch, which has a stain on it, is dirty”), and “that” for defining relative clauses (“Here is a couch that has a stain on it”). If it’s between commas or after a comma, err on the side of “which”.

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Yves Champollion, WordFast Developer

4.19.2016

Se no presente vivermos para o futuro, nunca viveremos de fato.


“Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.” Blaise Pascal
"Quase não pensamos no presente; e, quando pensamos, é só para tirar dele a luz para dispor do futuro. O presente nunca é o nosso fim. Assim, não vivemos nunca, mas esperamos viver."

4.17.2016

Granny went to...Port of Dover

http://grannygoesto.blogspot.com.br/
My workstation:


























Vc sabe que é um tradutor quando...

...se identifica totalmente com esta música:
5000 Words
FIVE THOUSAND WORDS
(Lyrics and music © by Sharon Neeman)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9KbQyrxSIo



Eu vou para Maracangalha, eu vou!



4.16.2016

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

-  Leonardo da Vinci

Granny goes to...Pasargada


http://grannygoesto.blogspot.com.br