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--------------------- ProZ.com Newsletter --------------------- Your ProZ.com username: (See bottom for more details related to your ProZ.com account) Promote yourself - become a member! Join now: http://www.proz.com/join (1) How do you deal with poorly written source texts? (2) Free webinar week - 30 March - 3 April (3) Book your seat for this year's international conference (4) Poll: Have you ever been asked to do back translation? (5) Upcoming powwows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (1) How do you deal with poorly written source texts? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Do you encounter poorly written source texts in your translation work? If so, how do you handle them? 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Buy today http://www.proz.com/tgb/953 ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (2) Free webinar week - 30 March - 3 April ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A new round of free webinars has begun at ProZ.com, and will run from March 30th through April 3rd. Subjects include the use of Across Personal Edition, SDL Trados Studio, STAR Transit, WordFinder, SmartCAT, TM Town, Déjà Vu, memoQ translator pro, Wordfast and more. Sign up now to ensure you have a seat. http://www.proz.com/translator-training/format/free-webinars Advertisement ------------------------------------ Try the latest version of Déjà Vu X3 today! With many amazing features such as export XLIFF from DVX3 Professional, new PDF converter, new IDML filter, inline formatting and fewer embedded tags. Thanks to the new SDXLIFF, XLZ, MQXLZ filters it’s the most compatible CAT tool out there. 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Save up to 40% when you buy via ProZ.com TGB at http://www.proz.com/tgb/949 ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (5) Upcoming powwows: US, Ukraine, Canada, Portugal, Germany, Spain, Romania, etc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ April 4: Kharkiv, Ukraine (2) http://proz.com/powwow/5540 8: Moncton, Canada (1) http://proz.com/powwow/5525 10: Oporto, Portugal (34) http://proz.com/powwow/5287 12: Leeds, UK (6) http://proz.com/powwow/5528 16: Brisbane, Australia (4) http://proz.com/powwow/5537 16: Edinburgh, UK (22) http://proz.com/powwow/5510 17: Winnipeg, Canada (4) http://proz.com/powwow/5438 17: Cordoba, Argentina (6) http://proz.com/powwow/5479 18: Bristol, UK (11) http://proz.com/powwow/5432 19: Cumming, US (1) http://proz.com/powwow/5518 24: Rosario, Argentina (18) http://proz.com/powwow/5483 25: Palma de Mallorca, Spain (10) http://proz.com/powwow/5531 25: São Caetano do Sul, Brazil (6) http://proz.com/powwow/5515 30: Ipswich, UK (3) http://proz.com/powwow/5473 May 7: Torino, Italy (12) http://proz.com/powwow/5491 9: Mannheim, Germany (12) http://proz.com/powwow/5429 15: Berlin, Germany (7) http://proz.com/powwow/5488 15: Barcelona, Spain (5) http://proz.com/powwow/5524 16: Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania (38) http://proz.com/powwow/5347 16: Berlin, Germany (26) http://proz.com/powwow/5485 16: Rutherford, US (7) http://proz.com/powwow/5453 19: Teramo, Italy (4) http://proz.com/powwow/5228 ============================================================ Remember to stop in and check out the free webinars being held all this week. http://www.proz.com/translator-training/format/free-webinars ============================================================ Happy translating, Jared Member services ProZ.com - - - - - - - - - - - Your username: Membership status: Registered user KudoZ: BrowniZ: Wallet balance: $0.10 Your profile: http://www.proz.com/profile/0 - - - - - - - - - - - Forgotten password? http://proz.com/?sp=new_password ================================================================= You are receiving this email message because you signed up for email notifications of this type in your ProZ.com email preferences. 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