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09-12-2007, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Nyororin View Post
That reminds me...
I translated a bunch of garbage disposal pamphlets for our area.
I did it for very little money, thinking it would be a good example for a sort of portfolio.

Unfortunately the office TOTALLY screwed it up. For some horrible and mysterious reason, they decided that for any part that didn`t fit perfectly in the box, they could just randomly remove words to make it fit.

*sigh*
Oh yeah...I know that feeling. I did a school pamphlet, and the school song in English was twice as long as it was in Japanese...so the principal cut it in half.

Thinking about pamphlets:

Trying to fit 18-letter-words into 3-kanji-boxes is a real toughie!~
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