Poll: Will the term “Translator” disappear over the next 5 years? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Will the term “Translator” disappear over the next 5 years?".
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Lieven Malaise 
Belgium
Local time: 02:45
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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I've gazed into my crystal ball and I can confirm: the term "Translator" will disappear over the next 5 years. More specifically it will be gone by tomorrow. A black hole will swallow it.
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| The term 'translator' probably won't disappear | May 10, 2025 |
But the profession as such almost certainly will.
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Mario Chávez
United States
Local time: 21:45
English to Spanish
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| Here's an alternative | May 10, 2025 |
Will the term “Proz” disappear in 5 years?
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Lingua 5B
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Local time: 02:45
English to French
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writeaway wrote:
But the profession as such almost certainly will.
It seems like it already has.
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Daniel Frisano
Italy
Local time: 02:45
Member (2008)
English to Italian
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MT post-editors will still call themselves "translators", won't they?
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Mario Chávez wrote:
Will the term “Proz” disappear in 5 years?
Currently being replaced by “PollZ”.
[Edited at 2025-05-10 17:45 GMT]
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In English, at least, we still use terms such as cooper, farrier and fletcher, although not many people make a healthy living performing these crafts.
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Daryo
Local time: 01:45
Serbian to English
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| No, the term “translator” will not disappear | May 10, 2025 |
but it will be eviscerated of any real meaning. Like being turned into some weird addition to Newspeak ...
The trend has already started with people who think that merely copy-pasting an automated word output is 'your own contribution' to anything ...
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| How would MT bots be called without the T? | May 15, 2025 |
Currently, MT stands for Machine Translation, so the MT bots are the machine translators, right?
Blogs related to tech-plugins for apps/webs and such usually refer to “Google Translator” or “ChatGPT translator,” so if the term disappears, how would these algorithms be called in the next few years?
IMHO, the term will be more used than ever.
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