Apology in advance

[bktheirregular]

I may be somewhat ranty for the next couple of days or so. Aside from the whole protest thing, I just got handed a document to translate - no, to summarize - on data-processing systems integration.

Problems:

1) To summarize, I need to comprehend the whole thing, which often means translating the whole thing, which means that summarizing can take longer than a straight-up translation. Although I'm winging it and trying to muddle through.
2) They're using acronyms left and right, in both Greek and English (and maybe German as well) without defining them. There was literally one acronym I could decipher without doing a wiki walk: IBM.

Yeah, it's getting to the point where I want to track down the author of said document. With a baseball bat.

(Except that they don't have baseball bats in Greece last I checked.)

(Or cricket bats.)

(And I'd probably be arrested if I tried to import one.)

(I just want to find the person who wrote that mishmash and turn their skull concave. Is that so wrong?)

(Oh, yeah, and the office closes down at 6:30. For safety reasons. So this fifteen-pages-of-gobbledygook document had to be summarized in less than two hours.)

(I guess accuracy gets sacrificed to speed today.)

Comments

[twistedchick]

I think Greece has a supply of rocks and possibly some columns lying around. Would one of those be useful?

[bktheirregular]

Theoretically, but grabbing rocks would get me lumped in with the hoodie hooligans. Unless I was wearing my necktie.

[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

If you want a hand give me a shout-- I read German too, though I'd be lying if I said it was my best language.

[bktheirregular]

Much appreciated! But it's (roughly) done. Did it fast because it had to be done fast, and there were inaccuracies (because you can't have it cheap, fast, and high-quality all three). The whole thing was in Greek except the abbreviations, anyway, and I was only guessing that some of the abbreviations might have been in German. (What's SAP stand for, anyway? Don't answer that. There's too many options.)