The case of the Home screen screen

Translation Comedy Corner
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Applied the client’s “Home screen” rule in Trados at 11:18 p.m., and the auto-assembly generated “Return to Home screen screen” across 72 segments. How do you enforce consistent UI terminology without creating duplicates in concatenated strings?

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2025-12-29 – Weekly Translation News : Maintaining brand voice across languages
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I’d add QA Checker 3.0 regex ‘(Home screen)\s+screen’ to flag duplicates, @OP :joy:. Want a Variables tweak too?

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