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Joined February 2015
#asktk Does Satan still have "limited access" to the presence of God as in Job 1.6 (to accuse believers before God) or did he fall from Heaven thanks to the work of the cross (Luke 10.18)?
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@eurostar9028 you wicked, diamond geezers, sweet as a nut
Avoid the term "expert" in your financial copy. Good advice: businessjournalism.org/2012/…
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Work hard with your clients to make an indispensable part of their team!
Twitter outburst... why do so many people translate "consommation" as "consumption". Peleeeez... Use only in a narrow academic context. There's most often a better alternative.
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Learn something new every day: "roll down": Replacement of option with a new option that has a lower strike price investopedia.com/terms/r/rol…
Is this really happening? A translator job for someone with three mother tongues? jobs.ch/en/vacancies/detail/…
FR > EN: careful, sometimes French uses "local(e)(s)" to mean "domestic", e.g. "production locale" > "domestic (oil) production)"
FR>EN: the term "think tank" is probably underused by EMT financial translators. Look out for "instituts de recherche" in French...
Quite a balanced summary. Apple sinned but EU is out of control: telegraph.co.uk/business/201… via @telebusiness
Businesses take note! Cheap translation services can end up costing you twice as much in the end homebusinessmag.com/growing-…
Swiss French: "sans autre", probably from "ohne Weiteres" (GE)
Good point in the FT yesterday (Richard Thaler): if there has been no Brexit impact so far, that's because the actual exit hasn't begun yet!