Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium has hosted the greats of football like Cristiano Ronaldo, Bobby Charlton and George Best. Last week the stars of the translation world took to the field at the conference centre there which hosted the Language Industry Summit of the UK Association of Translation Companies I attended last week. This year […]
We are trying hard to keep up with the sightings of the new information boards for tourists appearing throughout the Mazovia region. This one in Czersk, near Gora Kalwaria was seen on Saturday at the Mediaeval festival, which took place at in the grounds of the castle. The Dukes chose Czersk in the 15th century […]
This morning I attended a World Bank Group /British-Polish Chamber of Commerce event, launching a report entitled “Doing Business in Poland 2015 Comparing Business Regulations for Domestic Firms in 18 Cities with 188 other Economies”. The report goes beyond looking purely at Warsaw as a place to do business, as it benchmarks 17 other […]
When the mysogenistic Samuel Johnson was asked about female preachers, he compared them to dogs walking on hind legs. “It is not done well; but it is surprising it is done at all”. That is sometimes how a foreigner’s efforts at speaking Polish are greeted in company. In his Letter From Poland, our friend at www.thenews.pl, Jo Harper, posed […]
You burn out quickly in any business if you’re not passionate about what you’re doing. At Lacrosse our field is language services: translating, editing, writing, localising, transcreating. This blog is about sharing our passion for our business- it will cover news of interesting projects and developments at Lacrosse, and discuss the challenges which our industry […]
We were approached this week by a company, who wanted clarification of accepted practices of the language services industry regarding translation memories. The agency they were using demanded an extra fee for giving them access to the translation memory. In Poland , client awareness of this issue is a fairly new topic and given that […]