Swet Columns

SWET Newsletter, Number 69

New Year's Party Ponderings (LER) [party report; SWET and industry retrospective]

IJET Time Again (FMU) [conference announcement: International Japanese-English Translation]

A Day in the Life (MS)

Featured: Mark Schilling, journalist and translator

Dear Aunt Eva [maintaining high standards in English]

Quickie Question [types of errors not covered by checking programs]

Living with Cable TV (JA) [program offerings and content]

Eyeing an Opportunity (KM)... more

Interference by Overconfident Japanese

by Doreen Simmons

Need a friendly ear to pour your troubles into? A shoulder to cry on? Somebody, anybody, to whinge at? Write to Aunt Eva, who has been through it all and can share your pain. The names are changed but the situations are real.

Dear Aunt Eva:

I work as a checker and rewriter. I thought... more

SWET Newsletter, Number 68

Winter Party [announcement]

Charging for Freelance Work (MMcD) [considerations]

Dear Aunt Eva [coping with client's unreasonable changes]

Quickie Question [sewage versus sewerage]

A Day in the Life (BH)

Featured: Bryan Harrell, freelance copy editor

Repeat After Me (FMU) [book review]

Book: Living Japanese: A Modern Reader

More From your DTP Software? (ref: LER) [future workshops: PageMaker, QuarkXPress]

... more

SWET Newsletter, Number 67 [Fifteenth Anniversary Issue]

Newsletter Editing: – Voices of Experience (LER) [panel report]

Panelists: Bryan Harrell; Lyneve Rappell, The Language Teacher; Stephanie Morino, Partner; Lynne Riggs, The Japan Foundation Newsletter; Susie Schmidt, SWET Newsletter

With a Little Help from Their Friends (GH) [checking with native-Japanese speakers]

Contributors: Beth Cary, Lis-Brit Dalkarl, Gavin Frew, Gerry Harcourt, Bryan Harrell, Bill Lise, Martha McClintock, Lynne Riggs,... more

SWET Newsletter, Number 66

Summer Party [announcement]

Town Meeting (ref: SS) [report: June; re Newsletter; announcement: July]

IJET-6 in Vancouver (FMU) [conference report: International Japanese-English Translation]

Writing the Book Review (JD) [considerations]

For Your Reference (EO) [SWETers' favorite fact-checking resources]

Contributors: Paul Cipywynk, Robert Juhl, Leanne Eames Ishibashi, Heinz Kuhlmann, Christopher Moreby, Susumu Morita, Philip Ouellet, Atsuko Shioya, Michio Tokita.

More on Inclusive Language (ER) [translating kodomo: pronoun... more

SWET Newsletter, Number 65

Town Meeting [SWET meeting announcement]

Telecommunications Workshop for Macintosh Users [workshop announcement]

Leader: Keith Wilkinson

Books Change Hands [SWET book fair report]

Can Translation Be Taught? (JW) [considerations]

Found in Passing (BdeM) [Internet board: Technical Writers]

Editor's Corner: Preparing for the New Realities (DD) [professional training resources]

Subheadings: Correspondence Courses through U.S. Department of Agriculture; University Courses in Japan

Do-It-Yourself Publishing [call for input... more