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My tablet recently upgraded itself and the following message appeared during the process: It says: Android is upgrading… Optimizing 92 of 116 apps So the device is only optimizing 92 apps and it is not going to optimize the other 24? What Google meant to say was: Android is upgrading…...
This is the standard print dialogue in the Korean version of Microsoft Word: The text in the red circle says "Number of pages" (as in one page, 20 pages, etc.). However, as explained by the pop-up tip in the blue box, it's the spot for entering which pages to print...
It would be great if every project followed a linear, sequential workflow from beginning to end, so that after feeding the source file in at the beginning, the final file at the end pops out as a perfect specimen, with every step having somehow brought the quality closer and closer...
There's a nasty feature in Microsoft Word as it applies to Korean; I have no idea why it's there. My best guess is that it's only supposed to be used with Japanese and Chinese but that Microsoft mistakenly included it for Korean, too. I'm not really sure, though. Perhaps Microsoft...
If you’re translating English business cards into Korean, work with a professional who understands the intricacies of the task and asks enough questions to be able to translate job titles correctly. For example, here are many (but not all) of the possibilities for translating “director” and its variants: 이사 전무...
If you're expecting identical English text to be always translated the same way into Korean, you're in for a big surprise. There can be meaning-related factors involved too, but this tip explains how structural context influences the verb endings used in written Korean. This means that occasionally, the same English source sentence...
The following point may seem obvious: Korean letters don't appear the same in each font. For some reason though, this confuses clients from time to time. Here's the Korean letter chi'ut written in five different fonts: Notice how the line/dot at the top in #3, #4 and #5 is disconnected...
A client recently sent me a translation request for a technical user's manual where we had already worked on another manual for the same manufacturer. The client put the translation memory and termbase from our first delivery through a machine translation solution to translate the second manual. He then asked...
In a previous tip, we covered the fact that some Korean number units don't jive with English. The following tip points out that the way numbers are written also differs between the two languages. In English, we generally spell out numbers through 100 and then use numerals after that. Here are...
If you use the Google Chrome browser, you're sure to have come across this message at the top of the browser window: Here's what Korean users have been seeing here: The indicated Korean says, "Not Completed"…. Hmm… So Google asks if you want your password saved and Korean users can...
