The British-Polish Chamber’s magazine “Contact” carried an article about the very successful Export Forum that Southern Poland office chief Urszula Kwaniewska organised with the Marshal of Silesia’s office in Katowice with COIE. Lacrosse got a good write-up for the presentation we did there. As the author of the “Contact” piece writes, we pointed out some great examples of […]
Breaking Expectations! – the ATC gathers at Old Trafford this year
Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium has hosted the greats of football like Cristiano Ronaldo, Bobby Charlton and George Best. Last week the stars of the translation world took to the field at the conference centre there which hosted the Language Industry Summit of the UK Association of Translation Companies I attended last week. This year […]
The Dukes of Mazovia Route information boards erected in Czersk
We are trying hard to keep up with the sightings of the new information boards for tourists appearing throughout the Mazovia region. This one in Czersk, near Gora Kalwaria was seen on Saturday at the Mediaeval festival, which took place at in the grounds of the castle. The Dukes chose Czersk in the 15th century […]
World Bank Report rates Poland 32nd on Doing Business List
This morning I attended a World Bank Group /British-Polish Chamber of Commerce event, launching a report entitled “Doing Business in Poland 2015 Comparing Business Regulations for Domestic Firms in 18 Cities with 188 other Economies”. The report goes beyond looking purely at Warsaw as a place to do business, as it benchmarks 17 other […]
Are you ever really heard in another country?
When the mysogenistic Samuel Johnson was asked about female preachers, he compared them to dogs walking on hind legs. “It is not done well; but it is surprising it is done at all”. That is sometimes how a foreigner’s efforts at speaking Polish are greeted in company. In his Letter From Poland, our friend at www.thenews.pl, Jo Harper, posed […]
Starting out on the More Than Words Lacrosse blog
You burn out quickly in any business if you’re not passionate about what you’re doing. At Lacrosse our field is language services: translating, editing, writing, localising, transcreating. This blog is about sharing our passion for our business- it will cover news of interesting projects and developments at Lacrosse, and discuss the challenges which our industry […]
Who owns a translation memory – a customer or the service provider?
We were approached this week by a company, who wanted clarification of accepted practices of the language services industry regarding translation memories. The agency they were using demanded an extra fee for giving them access to the translation memory. In Poland , client awareness of this issue is a fairly new topic and given that […]
Three Polish tourist guides into three languages
Lacrosse is delighted to have been selected to translate three tourist guides for one of the Polish Regional Tourist Organisations responsible for promotion of tourism within their region. Lacrosse Experts in Translation was chosen for its capability to provide a finished text in a natural style, translated and studiously checked and edited by native speakers of […]
British-Polish Chamber of Commerce Export Forum in Kraków
The Lacrosse presentation at the first Export to the UK Forum in Kraków receives a mention in an article in the BPCC’s quarterly “Contact” online magazine and on the BPCC website. Photo thanks to BPCC
Spring – as captured by Filip Bramorski for Lacrosse
April is a good month to start a new project as the root of the word is “aprere”, Latin for “to open”. We opened 2015 with a gift of a calander to our clients with photos commissioned from young Warsaw photographer Filip Bramorski. Filip is still taking some beautiful photos, encouraged, we hope, by our co-operation […]