Winter Party [announcement]

1997 Directory Updates [call for changes, additions]

Copyright in Print and Online (BD) [workshop: copyright issues]

Speakers: James Nelson, Bernhard Steves

Subheadings: Is the work subject to copyright?; Is it an idea or an expression?; Do exceptions apply?; Is copyright ownership clear?; Other aspects of copyright ownership; Brass tacks [Q&A]; Copyright and cyberspace

List: Copyright references in print and online

Dear Aunt Eva (DS) [dealing with Japanese clients' certitude about "proper" English]

Splitting Wood and Translating (RS) [comparisons]

Discussions on SWET-L [recent discussion topics]

A Day in the Life [one SWETer's workday]

            Featured: Bill Lise, translator, interpreter

More Than a Pinch of Salt (MM) [book review]

            Book: The Kenkyusha Dictionary of English Collocations           

"People-eating" Crocodiles? (LER) [excerpts from SWET-L re gender-neutral expressions]

IJET 97 (FMU) [announcement: international conference]

Cyberjargon Corner (MM) [popular acronyms of Internet users; see below]

Over Their Shoulders [translation comparisons: excerpt from technical paper]

            Translators: Lynne Riggs, Richard Sadowsky, Fred Uleman

SWET on the Web (PF) [announcement of new SWET Web site]

A "Call" to SWET-L (PF) [poll results: phone/fax number styles]

Cyberjargon Glossary [definition of acronyms in Cyberjargon Corner]

            AKA; BTW; FOCL; HAND; IMO; IOW; IYSWIM; OTOH; PITA; SITD; TIC; TTFN