Two things happened recently. First, I had cause to translate a job on textiles, and second, I edited a job on cherry-pickers— you know those truck mounted mobile platforms which maintenance crews use to work at height. The two jobs could not be more different, but in a strange way they were related.Early on in the textile job, I realized that my technical dictionary resources had next to nothing on textiles. This is not surprising since most dictionaries are at least 10 years out of date and the majority of them anywhere from 20 to 50 years out of date. …
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Here is the very first post for the new ATA Science and Technology Division blog. It’s a short one, just to get us started.