Unless he or she is an IT specialist, the ordinary translator gets bewildered by any malfunction of his computer and has to rely on a specialist to solve the problem. It does help, though, to be a curious and inquisitive person, because answers are out there, to be found.
When my laptop’s clock recently started losing time, first an hour at time, then more, I did a Google search. Little by little, an answer of sorts came out. It was my CMOS (a small battery) that was either failing or was bad.
I have described this way of dealing with adversity in an earlier post dealing with cap guns.
The detective work was lots of fun. That is the spirit which continues to drive me to provide translations: to help my clients communicate in a language that they do not know or do not know well, while having a ball doing the work.
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