Letters to the Editor

Volume 3, No. 2
April 1999

The Editor/Webmaster welcomes comments and suggestions from the readers of the Translation Journal. Only letters signed and provided with a return e-mail address for verification will be considered for publication.
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January ’99 Issue

October ’98 Issue

July ’98 Issue

April ’98 Issue

January ’98 Issue

October ’97 Issue

July ’97 Issue

	What’s New? by Gabe Bokor
	Index 1997-99
	Translator Profiles
	A Typical Translator? by Cynthia Keesan
	The Profession
	The Bottom Line by Fire Ant & Worker Bee
	Legal Translation
	Pitfalls in Legal Translation by Davide De Leo
	Working in Brazil by Danilo Nogueira.
	Translators Around the World
	Translators’ Day in Armenia by Narine Khachatryan
	Arts & Entertainment
	Translation for Art and Architectural History by Michael Walker
	Science & Technology
	A Translator’s Guide to Organic Chemical Nomenclature XV by Chester E. Claff, Jr., Ph.D.
	Caught in the Web
	Web Surfing for Fun and Profit by Cathy Flick, Ph.D.
	Translators’ On-Line Resources by Gabe Bokor
	Translators’ Tools
	Translators’ Emporium
	Translators’ Events
	Letters to the Editor
	Call for Papers

Letters to the Editor

The site is exceedingly interesting and exceedingly slow (:-(.
    Some pages would not load completely without a stop and a reload. Why so?
    How about providing a zipped archive of the latest issue for downloading and offline browsing? In many parts of the world (e.g. Poland) the per minute or per impulse fee makes the cost of online reading rather prohibitive.
    Would appreciate your position on this proposal.

Piotr Bienkowski, Warsaw, Poland

Editor’s response: Measurements of load times of different randomly selected Web pages have shown that the Translation Journal loads faster than 88% of our sample. We have achieved this by keeping the amount of graphics to a minimum and avoiding bulky multimedia files, which add little or nothing to the content.
Regarding the suggestion of downloadable files, unfortunately, we have a limited amount of hard disk space available, which makes providing extra files for download unfeasible at this time.

What an excellent piece! My sincere thanks to all those involved in the publication of Danilo’s article “Going Broke in Brazil.” I’ll also send my congratulations to Danilo.

Tereza Braga, Dallas, TX, USA