July 2003 Chronicle
Focus: Translators and Computers

Message from the President
Message from the President-elect
Message from the Executive Director

Don't Cry for Them: Argentine Translation Conference Draws Record Crowd
By Alexandra Russell-Bitting
Organizers in Buenos Aires refused to let a little crisis get in their way.

That Dirty Little Four-Letter Word
By Kevin Fountoukidis
Talking from experience, the author discusses and explains the reasons behind low localization prices in Eastern Europe.

Computer Science for Internauts-—How E-mail and Other Internet Services
Actually Work
By Naomi James Sutcliffe de Moraes
A theoretical introduction to computer networks and how they function.

Do Translation Memory Systems Compare Apples and Pears?
By Phillippe Mercier
Changing your documentation format or switching from one TM software application to another may be the source of some problems.

Scenes from a Regional Conference: MICATA Workshop on Science and Technology
By Kathy Hall Foster
The 24th annual workshop of the Mid-America Chapter of ATA represented a wide range of languages, specialties, and interests.

Do You Speak XML? Crash Course on Markup Languages for the Technical Translator
By Romina L. Marazzato
Definitions, examples, and fundamental concepts of HTML and XML for translators.

The Hungarian and His Dog
By Paulo Rónai, Translated by Tom Moore
Hungarian has an extraordinary number of expressions relating to dogs.

Between the Covers
By Ros Schwartz
A discussion of the art of literary translation.