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[quote]The Misha wrote:
You cannot regulate people into being critical of themselves and honest with others.
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That's where you and I disagree, Misha. (But you knew that.)
According to the FAQs, people who claim more than one native language are supposed to be vetted and have a relevant icon, yet there are people who claim several native languages and are ab
I've had a good experience with it. It's much cheaper than PayPal. I believe the sender has to open an account, but it's not a big deal (as it is with Skrill, for example). I only have a c
[quote]Amir Arzani wrote:
The average amount of words that one should translate (according to my colleagues) in English to Persian translation should be around 2k-3k a day meanwhile I h
OmegaT is the easiest I know, and it's free. https://omegat.org/
There's a tutorial for CAT newbies here: https://omegat.org/files/guide/OmegaT_for_Beginner s_en.pdf
Your question
At the risk of sounding like a publicist for Proz.com (which I am not), I wonder why you don't have a paid membership. Without one you will never get direct requests from outsourcers using
But the visuals are out of sync with the speaker, so she is talking about slides that you can no longer see! Somebody should fix that.
Also, where can the lists of resources be found?
An
[quote]Chris S wrote:
There seems to be a UK/US divide on the use of mankind which is causing a lot of talking at cross-purposes here. As a Brit, I've never thought twice about using ma
Thanks for the information, but the chart shows that "EU data protection compliance" is only applicable to the "Pro" version, not the free one, and not for the SDL Trados API.
Hamlet:
...What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how li
I don't know the answer, but try these, if you haven't already:
Have you ticked "xliff" in the File Filters in OmegaT? Options > File Filters > XLIFF. There is also a button EDIT for
[quote]VerdeNorteOro wrote:
- How many words are doable in an hour? On average? In your experience?
[/quote]
It is impossible to make a generality. If you're translating liter
This should be of interest to Russophiles, grammarians, and other human beings:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/02/t he-grammar-of-russiagate/
"There’s a big difference betw
See this interesting article:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/a rchive/2018/01/the-shallowness-of-google-translate /551570/
It does not answer your career questions, but rai
I have ABBYY Aligner, but have not been happy with it. It leaves a lot of manual adjustment to be done. I suggest you go with what Samuel and Farkas say, because they are experts on this q
I can't help but point out that "an unqualified translator" in AE means that the person has no skills whatsoever as a translator. In some other European languages, the cognate phrase means
It is obvious that the writer is not a native speaker of English, and there are many errors. IMHO, a language should be taught by a native speaker only, at least as advertised on a pro
I always find alignment (per Samuel's post) troublesome and in need of adjustments to make it come out right. I sometimes do it, but my usual method is the following;
I put the source f
To staff: What is the point of having a "Proz.com technical support" forum, if nobody from the Proz.com staff reads it? Either this forum should be monitored regularly, or it should be eli
[quote]Jorge Payan wrote:
Have you tried Glossary Converter or SDLTmConvert?
[/quote]
I use (or try to use) Glossary Converter when I have to do a job on SDL Studio, but it al
I am one of the vast ranks of Trados-haters. Every time I get a job in which I have to use SDL Studio, I end up making very little money because I have so many problems with it. Same with
This topic was also posted by another person to the MT forum - https://www.proz.com/forum/machine_translation_mt/ 322534-a_devastating_critique_of_machine_translati on.html - where its
You're right, I'll kill it at the other place if I can. I put it there because for some reason that's the forum that came up when I wanted to post it (instead of this one). I never noticed
I just noticed this. The first one is under "Art of Translation and Interpreting," where it doesn't belong, since post-editing and MT are not "arts" by any stretch of the imagination. The
I bailed out, because it assumes that one works as a post-editor, which I don't and never will. I often use MT in my own translation work as a tool, however, because it can be helpful with
I found this article on "The Shallowness of Google Translate" interesting: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/201 8/01/the-shallowness-of-google-translate/551570/
It's
I have it, but found that it requires a lot of manual adjustment. On the rare occasions when I need to align something, I use LF Aligner. But I never do huge jobs such as yours, so my expe
L'article de Traduire, la revue de la SFT, Du développement à la traduction : les projets en équipe d'OmegaT, est maintenant en accès libre :
http://journals.openedition.org/traduir
Olivia, you haven't had the courtesy to answer our posts, but if you are having trouble understanding the OmegaT documentation, this image shows the three types of .TMX files. You have to
[quote]Didier Briel wrote:
That's called an alignment. You can do it with OmegaT 4 (Tools > Align Files).
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I don't think she needs an alignment. I think she just wants the
There will be nothing in the TM folder or the Glossary folder unless you put something there.
Your TMs (three versions) are the .TMX files in your project folder, below omegat.project
[quote]Lincoln Hui wrote:
Or just use "Remove Tags" in OmegaT. [/quote]
Yes, you can do that, but it removes ALL tags, including font changes within a segment. So you'll have to cons
I think you are still confused. If you want to send me a bit of your document and the client's TM, I will take a look. It would be best for you to follow Didier's advice first (follow the
[quote]markvdvelde wrote:
So how do I get meaningful tags that break up sentences in the right places?
Now entire sentences or paragraphs are tagged with a single tag.[/quote]
Mark
These garbage tags come from MS Word .docx format, as I understand it. Use Codezapper or TransTools to clean up the Word file, and then you will probably get matches.
If you are seeing too many tags, it is because of the MS Word .docx or equivalent structure, not OmegaT. To get rid of them, you put the Word file through the apps Codezapper or TransTools
As I wrote within the survey, several of the questions are directed at LSPs, not translators (expanded a bit here): "Your choices here are mostly aimed at translation companies, not tr
Thanks, Alexander. For some reason I didn't receive notification of your post.
Anyway, I don't know what any of that means, but I have never had such a notification before, and I've had
[quote]sardin wrote:
I got confused with the guide for beginners produced by Susan. [/quote]
In the Introduction to the Beginners tutorial, it says: "OmegaT is an excellent place
[quote]sardin wrote:
... it wasn't easy to install either. I had to ask a software engineer to do it, he said I needed to be "root" to install it. [/quote]
It's very easy to install.
Download and follow the OmegaT for CAT Beginners tutorial: http://omegat.org/files/OmegaT_for_Beginners.pdf
If there are parts you find unclear or dead links, let me know, either her
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