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The morning’s program was devoted to the annual meeting of all ATA members, which I decided to skip, as I have nothing valuable to add to the discussion. My day began by walking to the Marriott from my base near the United Nations. Once in the vicinity of the conference hotel, I kept walking, past [...] I took the opportunity to sleep in this morning, and then to wander Manhattan’s streets in zig-zag fashion on my way from 2nd Avenue & 45th to Times Square. Although I grew up in Queens, just across the East River, I left New York more or less permanently a quarter century ago, so in a [...] The American Translators Association returned to New York, the city of its roots, for its 50th Annual Conference. When I registered for the conference two weeks ago, all of the rooms set aside by the Marriott Marquis (just off Times Square and 45th) had been reserved, so after a few more sticker-shock-inducing calls to nearby hotels, [...] Every once in a while, I’ll be invited to fill out a questionnaire for a translation agency. Said questionnaire usually asks for all sorts of information, often at an exhaustive level of detail (for example, just in the phone number section, asking for work phone, home phone, cell phone, secondary cell phone, fax number, as [...] |
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