Re: Emacs as a translator's tool

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
>>> Out of curiosity: what tools do you use? (I translate
>>> subtitles a lot, and I used subed-mode and mpv.)
>>
>> When I do subtitles it's pretty much always for a film
>> production company, which you'd think would mean latest
>> technologies and industry standards, exciting stuff, but in
>> fact means they email me a Word document, and expect me to
>> email them a Word document back :(
>
> Can't you guys see if you can find me me a translator job (I
> mean a single item) - because if I do it, I can tell the guys
> here, "look you bunch of bozos, I have experience from the
> field!" 

I've tried this, and it doesn't work :)

> So then I'll get jobs from there! And you'll get my gratitude and I'll
> have respect for Norway and Poland ;)
>
> Actually I already have that. I only act stupid, most of the
> time ...
>
> Are Poles the only ones ever to beat Russia in a war?
> What about the Afghans?
>
> As for Norway ... it speaks for itself. Only now I think they
> have too much money!

At the risk of going completely off-topic, I'm American, not Norwegian.
My family left Norway right before they discovered oil and all got rich
:(