2007-12-06
Finds from the library
I got a file back from a Danish translator this afternoon, who complained that a sentence in the otherwise English source text was in Italian. So I spent 15 minutes rummaging around in our office library looking for an Italian-Swedish or Italian-English (or, indeed, Italian-anything at all) dictionary, without any luck, but I found some other weird shit:
Немецко-русский ракетно-космический словарь
That is, for those of you who don't read Cyrillic, a German-Russian dictionary of astronautics and rocket science, published in 1972 by the Soviet Ministry of Defence.
Among other things I found was a Russian-Burmese pocket dictionary, a French encyclopedia of agriculture and various other reference books with a very narrow focus... But nothing, nothing for Italian. And that's possibly the most absurd thing of all, for a company like ours.
That is, for those of you who don't read Cyrillic, a German-Russian dictionary of astronautics and rocket science, published in 1972 by the Soviet Ministry of Defence.
Among other things I found was a Russian-Burmese pocket dictionary, a French encyclopedia of agriculture and various other reference books with a very narrow focus... But nothing, nothing for Italian. And that's possibly the most absurd thing of all, for a company like ours.