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If you are twittering around Dublin last night you would have seen the #sockies hashtag trending. This is the hashtag for the Social Media Awards. As finalists, we attended the last ceremony  last night at the Mansion House. We were up against OMG Jedward’s Dream Factory on TRTÉ, @Lokofotodotcom St Patrick’s Day and Captain Morgan – Dare the Captain!  for the Best PR Campaign.

So as you can guess the competition was though. We lost against Jedward so it is not really losing, is it? No matter what the result was we were really delighted to hear “And the nominees in are : STAR Translation and Jedward”

You could just hear our name amongst the cheers for the nominees as they came up on the big screen.

This is our first time being finalist in such an event so we simply enjoyed this moment sharing a few words with the other nominees. That was great to meet Amanda from spiderworking.com, Damien Mulley, Rick O’Shea and much more. We will be there next year!

See the photos of the event on our Facebook Page.

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Translation Planning: Victoria Day 21th May – Canada
Most companies will be closed in Canada 21th May for Victoria Day. Projects will be delivered on time as scheduled. Please take into consideration for all translation and export planning.

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Translation Planning: Ascension Day 17^th May – Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, and Germany.
Most companies will be closed in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, and Germany 17^th of May for Ascension Day. Projects will be delivered on time as scheduled. Please take into consideration for all translation and export planning.

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How do you say “Handball” in French when watching a football match?

French football fans use to cry : “Main!” or “Il y a main!” when a football player hits the ball with its hand.

Visit  http://www.star-ts.com/free-football-translation for plenty of football translations from English to Polish and over 10 other languages.

Plus, you can downlaod and print your EURO 2012 wallchart.

By STAR Translation Services.

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EURO 2012: STAR Translation publishes football phrases in 14 languages for supporters on the road to Poland.
Co. Dublin, Ireland — April 2012 — STAR Translation Services today published its Euro 2012 Phrase Booklet and Wallchart for supporters. Learn how to scream “Handball” in Polish before going to the football match.

News Release
For Immediate Release
Friday – May 2012

To support the Irish football team in EURO2012 STAR created its EURO 2012 Phrase Booklet to help you say “Handball” and “He Dived” in 14 languages. This is the chance for our supporters to speak some Polish, Ukrainian or even Dutch football phrases. STAR has translated the most useful football phrases from English to the 14 spoken languages of the countries taking part in the EURO 2012.

STAR Translation Services also designed its EURO 2012 wallchart so you can track your team’s progress.

You will find more free football translations on the STAR-TS website. The languages included are: Czech , Croatian, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian.

Come on Ireland !
• Download the phrase booklet and wallchart from www.star-ts.com/free-football-translation

About STAR:
Based in Dublin, STAR TS provides translation services in over 40 global languages. It translates documents and websites to enable clients to do more international business every day. With more than 800 people worldwide in the STAR Group, we give you confidence in a translated world. http://www.star-ts.com
Damian Scattergood and Paul Quigley founded STAR-TS in 2001. The entrepreneurs have successfully grown the company to one of the leading translation companies in Ireland.

Further information:
Damian Scattergood
Managing Director: STAR Dublin
Email: dsm@star-ts.com
Phone: +353 (0)1 8365614

STAR Technology Solutions
Docklands Innovation Park, 128-130 East Wall Road, Dublin 3, Ireland
Phone: +353 (0)1 8365614
Fax: +353 (0)1 8364644
Web: www.star-ts.com

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“Its” or “It’s”?

The dreaded contraction! Whilst it looks hard this is a relatively simple question to answer.

It’s

It’s is the contraction of it is or it has.

Example:

It is always a pleasure to help you.

It’s always a pleasure to help you.

Its

“Its” is the possessive form.

Example:

John is ready to help the company grow its business.

I find the best way to ensure you are using the correct one is to expand “it’s” to “it is” and read it out loud. If it sounds correct you are correct. Its it sounds wrong use the other one.

What grammar question would you love to ask us?

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STAR’s Monday Question : Is it “Data” or “Datum”?

Data comes from Latin. It used to be considered as a collective singular noun. In formal documents for scientific or scholarly writing data is mostly used as a plural and datum is the singular form. When you choose one or the other check that the nouns and verbs tally with the selected form.

Yet, for non-scientific use data is nowadays commonly used as a singular noun. So it is acceptable to write a sentence like: “STAR’s Translation’s data was available on its website”.

Definition

“data n, pl. 1 Facts on which a decision is to be based. 2 Facts to be processed by computer.
datum n. (pl. data) item of data”
Reference: Oxford Quick Reference Dictionary and Thesaurus – Oxford University Press

In addition, here are a few more words whose the plural form don’t ends in -s.

Plural >>>>>>>Singular

Bacteria                   Bacterium

Dice                           Die

Formulae                Formula

Graffiti                      Graffito

Candelabra            Candelabrum

Data                          Datum

Media                       Medium

Opera                       Opius

Paparazzi                Paparazzo

Men                          Man

Women                   Women

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Translation Planning: May Bank Hol 07th May – Ireland and UK
Most companies will be closed in – Ireland and UK 07th of May for May Bank Hol. Projects will be delivered on time as scheduled. Please take into consideration for all translation and export planning.

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Translation Planning: Victory Day 08th May – France
Most companies will be closed in France 08^th of May for Victory Day. Projects will be delivered on time as scheduled. Please take into consideration for all translation and export planning.

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Translation Planning: Constitutional Memorial Day 03th May – Japan
Most companies will be closed in Japan 03th of May for the Constitutional Memorial Day. Projects will be delivered on time as scheduled. Please take into consideration for all translation and export planning.

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