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[quote]Anna A. K. wrote:
Wie seht ihr das? Und sollte eine neutrale Sprache nicht eher der Standard sein (wenn der Kunde keine bestimmte Vorgabe/Präferenz gibt)?
Danke für euren
[quote]Stepan Konev wrote:
[quote]Jan Truper wrote:
To clarify, with highlights I mean what happens when you apply one of the options under "Mark Text" (the flash-like symbol).[/quote]
[quote]Stepan Konev wrote:
Click the filter funnel, go to the Status tab, check the Unsuppressed warning box on the right, click OK. [/quote]
That shows segments with unsuppressed
You don't only have to translate, but you have to consider the MT output as a negative factor which is taking away options?
I would charge about 150 % of my regular rate for this.
Here is Netflix' current vendor list:
http://gvm.netflixstudios.com/partners.ht ml
There have been significant changes to this list, compared to a few months ago (there are now
[quote]Boris Rogowski wrote:
I have never made it to Los Angeles (Julia Pfeiffer Burns is as far south as I got), but I still miss it all the time. [/quote]
I miss the old L.A. -- I
[quote]Baran Keki wrote:
Good thing he didn't take umbrage when you refused him, or maybe he did... [/quote]
He was probably too sh**faced to notice any such subtleties :)
[quote]Boris Rogowski wrote:
You should have taken the pick, though![/quote]
A somewhat-of-an-idol's pick is one of those items that I would have zero use for (I play a different
[quote]Boris Rogowski wrote:
(Take that, Yngwie!)
[/quote]
In 1994, fresh after getting my diploma in Electric Guitar from Guitar Institute of Technology, I was working as a cab
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
In such cases, the task of the translator is to make comprehensible that which is not intended to be comprehensible. [/quote]
I encounter this sort of th
[quote]Wynterstale wrote:
I am trying to figure out which Netflix DTT partner to "go for".
I am specifically looking at Gloz Inc. and TVT Media as they support my language pair (En -
[quote]Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT wrote:
Can you share a sample of the HTML code and a screen capture of what it looks like in memoQ? I somehow suspect it was not imported into memoQ in
[quote]Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT wrote:
Can you give it a try looking for q only and enabling memoQ's "Match whole words only" option (in the little drop-down many with the little or
[quote]Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT wrote:
In the Find and Find/Replace dialogues in memoQ, you will find a checkbox called "Search within tags as well". If you enable that, you can find
But I do sometimes write incorrectly when the job requires it (for example, when I am translating a game and a character does not speak proper English).
That's hard work, and it makes me<
[quote]Bee Lutovska wrote:
I did subtitle translation (MTPE, ENG->CZE)
...
there's no way the files I've delivered could be similar to machine translation.[/quote]
I don't
After some futzing, I found a solution for my specific problem (replacing line break tags with a space, while leaving all other tags intact and in place):
1)
in memoQ's Advanced Find A
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
It's called the "singular they". Purists dislike it, but it's very, very common in modern formal English. [/quote]
English to German translators hate it<
[quote]Anna1307 wrote:
are your rates any different when you propose them to direct clients compared to rates you propose to agencies? If so, to what extent do they differ? [/quote]
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[quote]Stepan Konev wrote:
You can replace all line breaks with white spaces directly in Excel. Once you have done with your translation, export it as is, open and press Ctrl+H to invok
[quote]Jalapeno wrote:
EDIT: My mistake was leaving the box "Also search in tags" ticked in the Find+Replace dialog. When you untick this, you can use the RegEx itag or tag to replace
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
All words ending with the letter "t" have been replaced with that silent apostrophe.
This major change in everyday English has crept up on us unnoticed.<
[quote]Robert Hess wrote:
Still, I would love to hear from other translators, if any, who have not been affected (much) by recent trends, whether economic or MT-related. Is there really
…and I'm pretty effing good -- I used to practice obsessively when I was an adolescent, and I actually have a diploma from this place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicians_Institute<<
[quote]Stepan Konev wrote:
I prefer to transfer source to target with Ctrl+Insert [/quote]
I see. I do not work this way, but I agree that a CAT tool should offer a setting for your wa
Select a term in the source column -> concordance searches the source side of the TM.
Select a term in the target column -> concordance searches the target side of the TM.
Seems like t
[quote]Teresa Borges wrote:
And what about your language? [/quote]
For German, people's names are usually left untranslated, but often are "germanized" a bit (foreign language diacriti
[quote]Helene Olsen Richards wrote:
What would you consider or accept as a decent subtitle rate? [/quote]
For what job, exactly?
(Spotting? Spotting and translating? Translating
[quote]Anna Sarah Fazendeiro wrote:
I cannot help but consider a majority of my work to be of no real use to humankind. We do not really need to have more piles of reports about improvi
I have not found the time to listen yet, either, but I am reminded of a job offer I saw recently:
Translating subtitles for a live cooking show with several renown chefs cooking com
I absolutely agree and find it baffling that these programs do not offer this option.
I use a workaround for memoQ ***on a Mac via Parallels***:
Windows -> Magnifier tool -> en
[quote]Elisabeth Coles wrote:
I was always taught that, when you are in a professional setting, you should always use formal pronouns (eg. vous instead of tu) unless specifically told
For MT (and also for human translation, by the way), German -> English would definitely be more precise than English -> German.
This does not only relate to grammatical cases. I transla
I accept fuzzy tables, but if the breakdown is devaluing,
-I either raise my base rate, or
-I only accept jobs where the devaluing percentage brackets are insignificant
This, for<
[quote]Nikolay Novitskiy wrote:
In winter we have -25 C outside but I wear almost nothing while in my house, beacuse it's +27 C inside... [/quote]
Especially our colleagues in the
[quote]Gerard Barry wrote:
I would say most people didn't need three doses, or even two. I got one dose of Moderna (I didn't actually want it but the German state was treating the "unva
[quote]jyuan_us wrote:
The sellers don't sell poorly because of the lousy translations of their texts, and better translations may not lead to better business either. [/quote]
I have
[quote]Peter Bak wrote:
How do you ensure that you invoice for ALL the work you have done?
[/quote]
For keeping track of translation work, I use a Google Sheets spreadsheet (with
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