# Notes from the bureau.

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Occasional writing on translation practice, quality standards and the parts of this work that clients are rarely shown.

- [Where machine translation earns its place, and where it does not](https://verlineo.cc/knowledge/en/article-machine-translation-post-editing.md) (2026-07-14): We use machine translation daily. We also refuse it for roughly a third of the work that comes in. The line between those two is more specific than the industry usually admits.

- [What a query log is for, and why you should ask to see one](https://verlineo.cc/knowledge/en/article-what-a-query-log-is-for.md) (2026-06-11): The list of things a translator could not decide alone is the most useful document in the project, and the one clients are least often shown.

- [What ISO 17100 actually requires, and what it does not](https://verlineo.cc/knowledge/en/article-iso-17100-in-practice.md) (2026-05-28): The standard is cited constantly and read rarely. Here is what certification genuinely commits a bureau to, and the three things clients wrongly assume it covers.

- [Terminology debt: the cost of never writing it down](https://verlineo.cc/knowledge/en/article-terminology-debt.md) (2026-04-09): Every organisation translating regularly accumulates inconsistency. It compounds quietly, and by the time anyone notices, correcting it costs more than the original translations did.

- [Pseudolocalisation, or finding the bugs before the translators do](https://verlineo.cc/knowledge/en/article-pseudolocalisation-before-launch.md) (2026-03-24): Half of what breaks in a localised interface has nothing to do with translation. You can find all of it in an afternoon, before a single word is translated.

- [Localising for Japan: what breaks and why](https://verlineo.cc/knowledge/en/article-localising-for-japan.md) (2026-02-19): Japanese is where most localisation pipelines built for European markets first fail. The causes are predictable, which means they are avoidable.

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