{"id":3081,"date":"2009-01-29T21:34:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T21:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2009-01-29T21:39:23","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T21:39:23","slug":"society-for-writers-editors-and-translators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/29\/society-for-writers-editors-and-translators\/","title":{"rendered":"Society for Writers, Editors and Translators"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I recently learned of the existence of the Society for Writers, Editors and Translators<\/strong><\/a> (SWET<\/strong><\/a>) (www.swet.jp<\/a>), a Tokyo-based group that seems to share a lot in common with JetWit<\/strong> and the Writers Interpreters Translators (WIT) Group<\/strong>–except that SWET has been in existence for 25 years!\u00a0 (Read the full history of the group here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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In 1998 SWET members collaboratively published the Japan Style Sheet as a guide for professional translators<\/p><\/div>\n

The other day I had the pleasure of meeting Ruth Stevens<\/strong><\/a>, one of the founders of SWET who now lives in the NY area.\u00a0 She introduced me (via email) to Lynne Riggs<\/strong><\/a>, the co-founder and current organizer of SWET, who in turn introduced me to SWET webmaster Sako Eaton<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, we were all happy to learn of each others’ existence, and I wanted to make sure to let all the JET alumni and Friend of JET readers out there know about SWET (which, amusingly, has “SWET Shirts<\/a>” for sale on their website).<\/p>\n

In addition to a terrific website, SWET also has an e-mail list<\/a> and RSS feed<\/a> that are free.\u00a0 You can also sign up for SWET membership<\/a> for 5,000 yen or $50\/year which entitles you to receive their newsletter containing various info and articles that do not appear elsewhere.<\/p>\n

I look forward to future collaboration with the SWET folks.\u00a0 (You’ll notice there’s already a sidebar widget for SWET with the RSS feed from their site.) And I encourage any readers to suggest and help implement additional ideas to help foster collaboration as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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