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Poll: How frequently do clients provide you with translation memories (TMs)? | Wow!

Sophie Dzhygir — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:37:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How frequently do clients provide you with translation memories (TMs)?
Poster: Sophie Dzhygir
Post title: Wow!

Amazing!
I can't believe only 25% of us get TM more than 10% of the time. I thought a big amount of the freelancers here were working mosly for agencies - am I wrong? do you have so many direct clients?

I voted 76-100% because when I work for agencies (most of the time), they provide TM on a 99% basis. Only direct clients do not provide TMs (in my case).

Poll: How frequently do clients provide you with translation memories (TMs)? | A relevant question would also be "How many times ... TermBases"

Vito Smolej — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:26:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How frequently do clients provide you with translation memories (TMs)?
Poster: Vito Smolej
Post title: A relevant question would also be "How many times ... TermBases"

... which according to my experience is even more important. But, they better be good.

In the project I am on right now it seems they threw the original text into some meat grinder, seasoned it with the plain vanilla X-to-Y vocabullary and - bingo - here's the TermBase for you, sir.

It includes AUF (=ON) and EIN (=ONE) and some other jewels of machine translations. ...

Regarding TM provided: they are indeed memories of translation. With some of them being nightmares.

What am I supposed to do if the 100% repeats (which are supposedly 85% of the whole text) would flunk the language proficiency test?

Poll: How frequently do clients provide you with translation memories (TMs)? | They don't "provide", but rather "force" their TMs

mk_lab — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:05:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How frequently do clients provide you with translation memories (TMs)?
Poster: mk_lab
Post title: They don't "provide", but rather "force" their TMs

Actually (IMHO), it's rare case when TMs "provided" by customers are really helpfull for us. My experience - is that customer's TMs intended first of all to decrease payment

Poll: How frequently do clients provide you with translation memories (TMs)? | Especially larger projects

avantix — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:11:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How frequently do clients provide you with translation memories (TMs)?
Poster: avantix
Post title: Especially larger projects

I've voted 21-30% of the projects which, however, represent approx. 75% of the total work, because TMs are usually provided for larger projects. For the smaller projects I have to use my own memory, the good old grey cells. However, those can be useful when working with TMs as well sometimes ;-).

[Edited at 2006-03-11 22:14]

Poll: How frequently do clients provide you with translation memories (TMs)?

ProZ.com Staff — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:12:32 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How frequently do clients provide you with translation memories (TMs)?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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