From the Editor/Webmaster

No. 2, Volume 1
October 1997

Gabe Bokor was born in Hungary and lived in eight different countries prior to settling in the U.S. in 1977. He obtained a Chemical Engineering degree from the Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo and has an M.B.A. from the Escola de Administração de Empresas of São Paulo, Brazil. With his wife, Cathy, he owns and manages Accurapid Translation Services in Poughkeepsie, NY. Gabe has served as the Administrator of the ATA Sci-Tech Division, a two-term ATA Director, Chair of ATA’s Ethics Committee, and Editor of ATA’s Sci-Tech Translation Journal. He is also a member of SINTRA, the Brazilian Translators’ Association.

	From the Editor/Webmaster You Asked for It by Gabe Bokor
	Translator Profiles Take care of the sense... by Paul Danaher
	In Memoriam: Dr. Deanna L. Hammond by Jane M. Zorrilla
	Legal Translation Workshop Teaching German-English Legal Translation by Margaret Marks
	Dictator v. Dictator First Impressions of ViaVoice from IBM by Roger Fletcher
	NaturallySpeaking from Dragon Systems by William J. Grimes
	Science & Technology A Translator’s Guide to Organic Chemical Nomenclature IX by Chester E. Claff, Jr., Ph.D.
	Banking and Finance The Language of Inflation by Danilo Nogueira
	Translation in the News The Onionskin by Chris Durban
	Caught in the Web Web Surfing for Fun and Profit by Cathy Flick, Ph.D.
	Translators’ On-Line Resources by Gabe Bokor
	Translators’ Events
	Letters to the Editor
	Call for Papers

You Asked for It!
by: Gabe Bokor

The first issue of the Translation Journal was greeted enthusiastically by the translator community (see Letters). So here is the second issue; I hope you’ll like it at least as much as you did the first one.
  You have also sent me many useful suggestions for making the Journal easier to read, quicker to load, and the information it contains easier to access. Some of these suggestions cannot be implemented for technical reasons or because they conflict with the main priorities we set when launching this publication: compatibility with virtually all browsers and quick loading even with slower Web connections. Other suggestions are incorporated in this second issue or will be in future issues of the Journal.
  One of these suggestions, advanced by Carsten Kuckuk (Germany), concerns the compromise between the journal metaphor and the new medium with all the possibilities it offers. We want to offer regular updates of the material (journal “issues”), keeping at the same time the information published earlier accessible to our readers. For this purpose, we’ll provide a link to previous issues on the front page of each issue. Pages containing information that is updated and supplemented, but not replaced, from one issue to another (such as Translators’ Resources, Translators’ Events, and Call for Papers), will continue to be accessible directly from the front page of any issue. The update will, however, be indicated by the color scheme of the page, which will uniquely identify each issue.
  I wish to thank all of you who offered encouragement, praise, and suggestions after reading the first issue of the Translation Journal, but especially those who contributed to making it a valuable resource by sharing their knowledge with their colleagues or offering to do so in future issues. Let me repeat what I said before: This Journal does not belong to its Editor. It belongs to all translators and depends on their knowledge and generosity in sharing it to survive. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you wish to contribute to the Journal. Articles, together with a short bio of the author, can be submitted in any major word-processed format through e-mail. Send along a color photo of yours via regular mail or via e-mail in TIFF, GIF, Photoshop, or JPEG format. You’ll find the Editor’s contact information on the Front Page.
   With your help, we can make the Journal a regular quarterly publication. Enjoy it, and let us know how we can make it even better in both form and content.