Letters to the Editor

Volume 5, No. 1
January 2001

	From the Editor
	TJ in the New Millennium by Gabe Bokor
	Index 1997-2001
	Translator Profiles
	A Vocation Found by Danilo Nogueira
	The Profession
	The Bottom Line by Fire Ant & Worker Bee
	Existe-t-il des traducteurs spécialisés ? by Frédéric Houbert
	Translator Education
	Revision—Food for Thought by Nick Somers
	Program Evaluation—A Missing Critical Link in Translator Training by Moustafa Gabr
	Spanish
	Strategies for Translating "-ing" Adjectives and Nouns from English to Spanish by Constanza Gerding Salas
	Portuguese
	World Translation Contest by Danilo Nogueira
	Interpretation
	The Importance of Knowing Your Local Vernacular by Serghei G. Nikolayev, Ph.D.
	Advertising Translation
	Translation Practices in International Advertising by Mathieu Guidère, Ph.D.
	Science & Technology
	A Translator’s Guide to Organic Chemical Nomenclature XXII by Chester E. Claff, Jr., Ph.D.
	Dictionary Reviews
	The Very Mind of English?—Activate Your Mind, Socrates Style by Zsuzsanna Ardó
	The Very Heart of English?— Reflections on culture, fluency and the native speaker's head prompted by the LDELC by Zsuzsanna Ardó
	Two New Portuguese Dictionaries by Gabe Bokor
	Translators and Computers
	Machine Translation and the Future of the Translation Industry by Yves Champollion
	From Novelty to Ubiquity: Computers and Translation at the Close of the Industrial Age by Celia Rico Pérez
	Caught in the Web
	Web Surfing for Fun and Profit by Cathy Flick, Ph.D.
	Translators’ On-Line Resources by Gabe Bokor
	Translators’ Tools
	Using MS Word's Advanced Find and Replace Function by Tibor Környei
	Translators’ Emporium
	Letters to the Editor
	Translators’ Events
	Call for Papers and Editorial Policies

Letters to the Editor

Editor's Note: The Letters to the Editor page was missing from the past three issues of the Translation Journal. It's not that our readers have stopped reacting to the articles published, but those letters sent to the Editor and telling us how wonderful the TJ is, however flattering to us, would be boring to our readers. Most of the messages addressing specific topics in specific articles were sent directly to the authors, whose e-mail address always appears next to those articles. In this issue we're publishing some of those messages, courtesy of two of our authors, Susanna Greiss and Dr. Chester Claff, who originally received them.

Dear Dr. Claff,

Thanks so much for your articles. I find them a refreshing review of my organic chemistry. I have been a full-time translator for 8 years, concentrating on pharmaceuticals as much as possible in the last 3 years. My husband (Catalan-born) and I have been living in Barcelona for almost 13 years.... ... I am also a graduate of MIT (S.B. in 1979, Course X, chemical engineering)...

Thanks once again. I plan to keep your files handy, right next to my old textbooks and other reference materials.

Helen Chihoski Casas, Barcelona, Spain

Dear Ms. Greiss,

Your article about translation in the Translation Journal ... was an inspiration to me. I am writing to you because I have some questions about translating that I hope you'd be willing to answer....

Sierra Lawrence

Hi, Susanna,

I just finished reading your article in [the Translation Journal] and decided to let you know how much I enjoyed it. It's nice to be able to read about such a wonderful life and take some of that experience and guidance to our daily work. Keep up the wonderful job you have been doing over the years, sharing all that expertise with us...

Else Anderson, Atlanta, GA, USA

Your article in the April issue of the Translation Journal was excellent. I am a bilingual (English and Arabic) columnist in two Saudi-Arabian papers. I would like to know some writers like you. Thanks, and good to know you.

Abdulaziz Althukair, Ryadh, Saudi Arabia