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| Money matters | Do you give reduced rates for CAT tool generated fuzzy matches? | @Bernhard | [quote]Bernhard Sulzer wrote:
And don't trust
"fuzzy" schemes that are not even based on TMs,
meaning matches purely based on the source text.
[/quote]
I don't think I've said this in | Samuel Murray | Nov 21 | | Translator resources | Organizing glossaries and TMs | @Janine | [quote]Janine Vieler wrote:
Do you have any
[particular] methods to organize your various
glossaries and TMs? [/quote]
My CAT tool allows
me to use just two TMs at at time, namely a
| Samuel Murray | Nov 21 | | Copywriting / transcreation | InqScribe | @Catherine | [quote]Google Translate says that Catherine
GEFFRAY wrote:
I have to do some transcription
work and use the InqScribe software. I need some
advice because I do not know this software at a | Samuel Murray | Nov 21 | | MemoQ support | How to ignore multiple QA warnings at once | | Hello
I have to do the QA check in MemoQ for a
client, but 90% of the warnings are false
positives. I would like to select all the
warnings that are false positives, and mark them
| Samuel Murray | Nov 21 | | Translation Theory and Practice | Translating quotations (from works previously published in English) | @Anne | Here's a very similar
discussion:
https://www.proz.com/forum/translatio
n_theory_and_practice/300013-best_practice_for_tra
nslating_citations_eg_in_academic_paper.html
| Samuel Murray | Nov 21 | | SDL Trados support | Autosuggest becomes all uppercase (even if Caps lock is off) | @Lucia | [quote]Lucia Vargas wrote:
I have been struggling
with a bug in Trados Studio 2019 where the text
inserted with Autosuggest becomes all uppercase,
or the first letter is lower then the re | Samuel Murray | Nov 21 | | MemoQ support | Where are the files (project checked out from server) | | Hello everyone
I'm working on a project that
was checked out from a server. The middleman
client now needs the files to have them checked by
another team, outside of the normal workflo | Samuel Murray | Nov 20 | | Business issues | I've got more emails than on Hillary's server! [when to delete emails from inbox?] | Replies | [quote]Philippe Etienne wrote:
Since I download
Gmail e-mails to my Outlook client (Office CD), I
made space on Gmail servers and deleted ALL
messages...[/quote]
Just be careful with | Samuel Murray | Nov 20 | | Business issues | Translation SW changing the way we work | @Tom | [quote]Tom in London wrote:
One of the added
annoyances about revising MT is that you have to
ask for the original text to be sent to you.
[/quote]
Those of us that use CAT tools
t | Samuel Murray | Nov 20 | | Business issues | I've got more emails than on Hillary's server! [when to delete emails from inbox?] | Subfolders? | [quote]Dylan Jan Hartmann wrote:
Last count was
around 60,000 emails in my business email inbox...
[/quote]
What e-mail program/system do you
use?
When you say "inbox", do you mean | Samuel Murray | Nov 20 | | Money matters | Do you give reduced rates for CAT tool generated fuzzy matches? | @Sencho | [quote]sencho1999 wrote:
A fellow translator told
me that they charge full standard rate for any
matches that are less that 85% - I don't know if
this is reasonable or not? [/quote]
Ye | Samuel Murray | Nov 19 | | Business issues | Translation SW changing the way we work | @Vincent | [quote]Vincent Lemma wrote:
Please share your
experiences and opinions. [/quote]
Well, you've
already taken a step in the right direction to
reduce the amount of work that is required, | Samuel Murray | Nov 19 | | General technical issues | Regular expression to catch same word twice in a sentence? | In which tool/dialect? | [quote]Hans Lenting wrote:
A regular expression
that catches any word that occurs twice in a
sentence (or string), not adjacent.
[/quote]
I'm sure it must be possible, but
you're g | Samuel Murray | Nov 19 | | Money matters | Best rates | @Gitte | [quote]Gitte Hovedskov wrote:
STOP THIS NONSENSE
of requesting BEST RATES. [/quote]
And while
you're at it, stop saying silly things like
"please find attached" and signing your mails | Samuel Murray | Nov 19 | | SDL Trados support | TW_users has moved from Yahoogroups to Groups.io | | Hello everyone
The TW_users@yahoogroups.com
mailing list that has existed for close to 2
decades, has moved to Groups.io. This is because
Yahoogroups is scaling back its mailing list | Samuel Murray | Nov 18 | | Business issues | Using paid leads to find clients | @Daryo | [quote]Daryo wrote:
If someone says "this
middleman found me good/rubbish
clients/suppliers", [then] it does say something
about how much the middleman was useful. These
clients/suppl | Samuel Murray | Nov 16 | | SDL Trados support | Outlook opens when a return package is created | @Roy | [quote]Roy Oestensen wrote:
(I believe this has
been covered here before, but I am not able to
find the solution.) [/quote]
Well, in case you
struggled to use the ProZ.com forum search | Samuel Murray | Nov 15 | | Money matters | Including emoji's in word count | @Elma | [quote]Elma de Jong wrote:
My answer was I use
the Microsoft Word word count.
[/quote]
Microsoft Word counts/ one emoji as
one word, unless the emoji is directly next to
another wo | Samuel Murray | Nov 14 | | SDL Trados support | How can you import Wordfast (Classic / Pro) files to your TM's in Trados Studio. | @Jonathan | [quote]Jonathan Haerinck wrote:
How can I do so
for the translations created in Wordfast Classic
or Wordfast Pro? The agency sent me an [uncleaned]
document created in Wordfast Classic. I | Samuel Murray | Nov 14 | | Translator resources | CAT tools for legal translations | I think... | [quote]Paula McMullan wrote:
I have been working
direct for law firms who aren't bothered how I
translate and am now starting to work more with
agencies. The ones I'm working with so far | Samuel Murray | Nov 13 | | Memsource support | Cannot use simple copy/paste function in Memsource online editor | @Jennifer | [quote]Jennifer Baker wrote:
If I select and
right click a word or words in the text editor,
there is no "copy" option. [/quote]
Yes, it's
weird. There is no usual copy or paste optio | Samuel Murray | Nov 13 | | MemoQ support | Which importing settings to import a Trados TMX into MemoQ 9.1? | Hmmm... | [quote]Aude De Lucia wrote:
The file properties
indicate "Creation tool: SDL Language Platform
8.1" [/quote]
I don't know what that means. I
posted a question to the official forum in | Samuel Murray | Nov 13 | | Business issues | Translating 800 Words Per Hour | So, that simply means that they defined it | [quote]Baran Keki wrote:
Upon reading their
payment policy, I saw that the "hourly rate" meant
translating 800 words per hour and reviewing 1600
words per hour. [/quote]
Okay, so that' | Samuel Murray | Nov 13 | | Translator resources | investing in CAT Tool | OmegaT is completely free | [quote]Morano El-Kholy wrote:
[QUOTE]Samuel
Murray wrote:
OmegaT: 10 years with upgrades:
€0, 10 years without upgrades: €0[/QUOTE]
Do
you mean that OmegaT is completely free?
[ | Samuel Murray | Nov 12 | | MemoQ support | Which importing settings to import a Trados TMX into MemoQ 9.1? | Which version of Trados? | [quote]Aude De Lucia wrote:
I'm importing a TMX
coming from SDL...[/quote]
Which version of
Trados does this TMX file come from? Are you an
experienced user of Trados?
| Samuel Murray | Nov 12 | | Money matters | Client cancelled the project right after your delivery | @Mohd | [quote]Mohd Hamzah wrote:
The wordcount is also
huge which is more than 40k. [/quote]
Before
you go any further, see if they or their job are
listed
[url=http://www.translator-scam | Samuel Murray | Nov 12 | | Getting established | Starting off, would like to hear some advice. | @Jake | [quote]Jake Young wrote:
I have applied for
around a dozen agencies, all in the last two
weeks. ... I have not been offered a single piece
of work yet. [/quote]
Unfortunately, it's a | Samuel Murray | Nov 11 | | Business issues | Agency asks me to work for free then asks me to lower my rate | I sometimes get such a request | [quote]Fiona Grace Peterson wrote:
This is the
first time I have been unashamedly asked to work
for free. [/quote]
If an agency asks me to do
something "as a favour", they mean that th | Samuel Murray | Nov 11 | | Translator resources | investing in CAT Tool | @Hans | [quote]Hans Lenting wrote:
[quote]Samuel Murray
wrote:
[b]User features:[/b] MemoQ currently has
the most, Trados and DejaVu come in second,
CafeTran and Wordfast come in third[/quote]
| Samuel Murray | Nov 10 | | Internet for translators | So, how many of you are moving to Groups.io this year? | | Hello
As some of you may be aware, Yahoogroups
is going to delete all old messages by
mid-December, and will change its e-mail group
service to a mail-forwarding service. This has
| Samuel Murray | Nov 10 | | Translator resources | investing in CAT Tool | @Mona | [quote]Mona Aboeleyoun wrote:
What are the most
important criteria to purchase a CAT tool?
[/quote]
Price, user features and agency
features.
[b]Price:[/b]
MemoQ: 10 years with
| Samuel Murray | Nov 10 | | Money matters | Long time client struggling with debt - what should I do? | @Tom | [quote]Tom in London wrote:
A much-loved agency
with which I have worked for many years has run
into financial difficulties and is not able to pay
several of my invoices (for quite small | Samuel Murray | Nov 10 | | Translators Associations | Would you sign this SLA? | @Anne | [quote]Anne Goergens wrote:
I am not sure I
should really sign. [/quote]
These are fairly
standard clauses in big-agency translator
agreements, and you should consider if you are
w | Samuel Murray | Nov 10 | | Money matters | CAT tool analysis from client and how they apply the rates | @Ata | [quote]Ata Arif wrote:
My concern is not about
that single job but rather I want to have a
strategy in place for this client and other
potential clients. [/quote]
Although many
tra | Samuel Murray | Nov 9 | | Money matters | Indian company doesn't pay | @Laura | [quote]Laura Gentili wrote:
She stated they pay
30 days from the date of the invoice.
[/quote]
FWIW, some of my clients do not accept
the "invoice" until a certain event took place. | Samuel Murray | Nov 9 | | Getting established | Question about approach after completing my Masters and a question about specialist fields | @Adam | [quote]Adam-MSCR wrote:
Therefore, am I right in
thinking it's actually better to pick and choose
what you work with and perhaps even find a
technical field in which to specialise?
[/ | Samuel Murray | Nov 9 | | Translation news | Petition: Urge the UN to protect translators and interpreters worldwide | Note: this petition is specifically about physical protection during military and police operations | For those who can't be bothered to click the link,
this "news" story is a 4-year old petition by a
couple of large, well-known translator
associations. They want the UN to give
transl | Samuel Murray | Nov 9 | | Money matters | CAT tool analysis from client and how they apply the rates | @Ata | [quote]Ata Arif wrote:
1- Is there a way to apply
payable rates to MemoQ analysis prior to starting
a project (knowing that I do not own the software
and I use the client's server)? [/quo | Samuel Murray | Nov 8 | | Scams | My e-mail blocked by Outsourcer | @Kamila | [quote]Kamila Ołtarzewska wrote:
He emailed me a
few days ago with an offer. [/quote]
Presumably
you responded to the offer saying something like
"Yes, I can do this translation", and | Samuel Murray | Nov 8 | | Scams | My e-mail blocked by Outsourcer | @Kamila | [quote]Kamila Ołtarzewska wrote:
I have just
tried to contact a client about the time zone of
the deadline he established. [/quote]
If no
time zone is specified, one can generally tak | Samuel Murray | Nov 8 | | MemoQ support | Do I have to remove personal TM from project before delivery? | @Mirelei | [quote]mirelei wrote:
I'm a translator starting
out.
If I create a translation memory for my own
use, store it offline and [use it in] client
projects, do I have to remove it from the pr | Samuel Murray | Nov 8 | | Business issues | funny behavior of translation agency | Another reason | [quote]Marjolein Snippe wrote:
Next time, when
you indicate something is going to take more time,
just suggest to use your hourly rate for this...
[/quote]
Another reason why it's a go | Samuel Murray | Nov 8 | | SDL Trados support | What is the most convenient way of translating a Wordfast Pro 3 project if I have SDL Trados Studio? | @Fredrik | [quote]Fredrik Pettersson wrote:
If I can't
create a TM and a termbase in Studio, perhaps I
could just copy and paste, or? It's not that many
words. [/quote]
I don't really know much a | Samuel Murray | Nov 7 | | SDL Trados support | Studio 2015: copy all fuzzy matches to target | @Bram | FWIW, I also think pre-translating may work. Try
it again:
I only have Trados 2019, but I
believe the process is very similar to that of
Trados 2015. Go to Projects in the left pane,< | Samuel Murray | Nov 7 | | SDL Trados support | What is the most convenient way of translating a Wordfast Pro 3 project if I have SDL Trados Studio? | @Fredrik | [quote]Fredrik Pettersson wrote:
What is the most
convenient way of translating [Wordfast Pro 3
files] if I have SDL Trados Studio? [/quote]
At
first I could not figure out what you're | Samuel Murray | Nov 7 | | SDL Trados support | Studio 2015: copy all fuzzy matches to target | @Bram | [quote]Bram Poldervaart wrote:
Is there is a way
to copy all fuzzy matches to target in one go?
[/quote]
If you're using Trados 2007 (as stated
in your profile page), then, isn't that | Samuel Murray | Nov 7 | | SDL Trados support | How to sync Trados on two computers - Where are the files | Thanks, Neo! | [quote]NeoAtlas wrote:
[quote]Samuel Murray
wrote:
3. None of these two files or set of
folders contain the project list. [/quote]
The
project list is kept in this XML
file:
C:User | Samuel Murray | Nov 7 | | Translation Theory and Practice | Test translation and quiz- using dictionary allowed if not stated otherwise? | @Diana | [quote]Diana Kaplan wrote:
If asked to complete a
test translation (or quiz), is it okay to use a
dictionary?[/quote]
Typically, you are allowed
to use all resources that you would nor | Samuel Murray | Nov 7 | | SDL Trados support | Match Number | @Sidlejinx | [quote]sidlejinx wrote:
How does Trados calculate
this kind of match ratio?
SL1: INGREDIENTS
SL2:
MIGAS (66% match) [/quote]
CAT tools try to
give more useful match percentages for v | Samuel Murray | Nov 7 | | SDL Trados support | Placeable | I'm not sure, but... | [quote]sidlejinx wrote:
Why does my Trados Studio
2017 treat "400 g" in the source text as a
placeable, and not just the figure 400?
[/quote]
Could it be that there is a
non-breaki | Samuel Murray | Nov 7 | Translation industry discussion forumsOpen discussion on topics related to translation, interpreting and localization
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