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Linguistics Useless words If it... [quote]Tom in London wrote: òpidubvè97r is
also a word. Tell me it isn't.

[Edited at
2023-08-17 09:26 GMT] [/quote] ...bears a
commonly acknowledged notion, yes. If not, then<
Matthias Brombach Aug 17, 2023
ProZ.com: Translator Coop AI set to make waves on KudoZ: volunteer testers needed Go for it, please I'm curious what answers AI would give on all the
numerous questions that are clearly based on typos
of the source term or phrase or which result from
a text that was generated by a non-na
Matthias Brombach Aug 11, 2023
Translation Project / Vendor Management Only FAKE translators email their CV... No respect [quote]Metin Demirel wrote: [quote]Tomás Cano
Binder, BA, CT wrote: For those who did not
have a clue that this is happening or who might
have their CVs and names stolen by scamme
Matthias Brombach Jul 31, 2023
Translation Project / Vendor Management Only FAKE translators email their CV... Clever "NO ACCESS THROUGH MOBILE DEVICES", either, to
that site.
Matthias Brombach Jul 30, 2023
German Honorare für Translation Management Ich... ...könnte da gleich mehrere Kandidaten empfehlen,
die für solche Services in Frage kämen,
schätze diese aber als sehr beratungsresistent
ein, sonst würden die mir nicht solche
l�
Matthias Brombach Jul 27, 2023
Off topic Which music are you listening to now, in 2021? A normal day in... ...the tube of
"London": https://youtu.be/bGNT5Uh-WKw ...with
the 5-cent-per-word PMs travelling to work for
bottom feeding. Mind the gap and stand behind the
yellow line, please!
Matthias Brombach Jul 24, 2023
Off topic Tetris effect? Only... ...sweet dreams, for example that AI does exist
only in novels written by Stanislav Lem and that
I'm able to adapt my rates to inflation each year
and that "London" based agencies are true
Matthias Brombach Jul 23, 2023
Déjà Vu support Saving TM as TMX inverts source and target language. Thanks... ...for double checking and letting me know it
sadly didn't help. I`m running out of ideas now
but can offer to send me your project (as .dvprj
file) by PM to have it checked on my PC. I'm
Matthias Brombach Jul 15, 2023
Health and lifestyle for language professionals The Best Places to Live The Best Places to Live... ...are those where you know and can estimate who
your enemies will be.
Matthias Brombach Jul 15, 2023
Déjà Vu support Saving TM as TMX inverts source and target language. Source and target mistaken with each other? [quote]Wolfgang Schoene wrote: DVX should do what
all CAT tools do correctly and export source as
source and target as target, period.
[/quote] Hi Wolfgang, could you check whether
Matthias Brombach Jul 14, 2023
Déjà Vu support Saving TM as TMX inverts source and target language. Another solution: Open your exported .tmx with notepad++ and replace
all "en-us" instances with "en-gb" (or vice
versa). Don't forget to save the tmx then. Replace
the instances with a valid language abbrev
Matthias Brombach Jul 14, 2023
Déjà Vu support Saving TM as TMX inverts source and target language. If... ...your DV TM isn't created as such (let's say as
EN-US / DE-DE), then you won't be able to save it
as a tmx with other variants (i.e. as EN-GB /
DE-DE). BUT: You may export the TM in q
Matthias Brombach Jul 14, 2023
Machine Translation (MT) The disappointment of Trados Studio... any alternatives? Not the best... [quote]Marionlam wrote: ... and perhaps I was
better off with a devil I know. As many of you
have said above, Trados isn't perfect, but it's
the best we've got... [/quote] ... devi
Matthias Brombach Jul 8, 2023
Déjà Vu support Deepl API not working in Déjà Vu X Did you... [quote]finnword1 wrote: I have been using DeepL
with DVX3 since last October without any problems.
Now, all of the sudden, it quit. DeepL tech
support is telling me: "Due to internal po
Matthias Brombach Jul 4, 2023
Business issues Registering your freelance business/company in another country as a non-resident Why London... ...when Chisinau would have the same effect? Many
so-called high caliber agencies are based there,
and it would be closer to your home country.
Matthias Brombach Jul 4, 2023
KudoZ Question closed - "answer found elsewhere" Same applies... ...to the technical forums too, when somebody asks
for help concerning CAT problems and then
disappears with no "thank you" or "problem solved"
at all.
Matthias Brombach Jun 26, 2023
Déjà Vu support Deepl API not working in Déjà Vu X I don't expect... ...to be a member of your team or any other
advantage from my help. A simple "thank you" or
"No, I did not succeed" would be enough.
Matthias Brombach Jun 13, 2023
Déjà Vu support Deepl API not working in Déjà Vu X Did you... ...finally succeed? Matthias Brombach Jun 9, 2023
Déjà Vu support Deepl API not working in Déjà Vu X "Assemble from portions" (your second screenshot): There you need to
tick under "Assemble from portions" the option
"Use Machine Translation". That's so far the
difference between your settings there and my
Matthias Brombach Jun 8, 2023
Translation Theory and Practice What is the best topic for a non-specialized translator to begin translating on? Children's books .. [quote]André Moreira wrote: What do you think
is the bets topic for a non-specialized translator
to start translating on? The dude that has his
dictionaries at home but little or no k
Matthias Brombach Jun 6, 2023
Business issues Market for German-English legal translations Whose statement, please? [quote]Dan Lucas wrote: [quote]Matthias
Brombach wrote: A fool's errand... would have
been to still ride on an already dead horse hoping
that the good times will come back
again.[/
Matthias Brombach Jun 1, 2023
Business issues Market for German-English legal translations A fool's errand... [quote]Dan Lucas wrote: A commenter on one of
my mailing lists recently opined that changing
career in your 50s or 60s is a fool's errand. I
didn't agree with him, and the existence of
Matthias Brombach May 31, 2023
MemoQ support What is the best way to translate a PDF document? Trados Studio I assume you have to deal with a "dead" pdf (all
text isn't able to copy, as suggested further
above)? If it's not dead, you may use Trados
Studio to open and save it later as an MS Word
Matthias Brombach May 31, 2023
Poll Discussion Poll: Has a proofreader ever "ruined" a translation you've done? Yes ...and one time it was an earlier classmate of
mine who is working as a consultant for several
agencies because of his high KudoZ ranking,
combined with his reputation as a retired officer
Matthias Brombach May 30, 2023
Business issues Market for German-English legal translations Poor Germany: one still has to work to make a living! Dan, Thank you for the link and yes, there may be
a slight decline in economic growth in Germany in
figures, but not only do other figures tell me
that there's still a shortage of skilled
Matthias Brombach May 30, 2023
Off topic Reconversion/Alternative work after Translation Tour guide I suggest becoming a tour guide for translators to
visit the main capitals of today's still
flourishing translation industry: Visit
"London" and see the Tower, the head building of
Matthias Brombach May 22, 2023
AI for translators and interpreters ChatGPT : Are translators an endangered species ? But thats... [quote]David GAY wrote: these translators also
work faster than their shadow because they deliver
their work within a fraction of a second...
[/quote] ...what some of them told me
Matthias Brombach May 19, 2023
AI for translators and interpreters ChatGPT : Are translators an endangered species ? That offer... [quote]Zea_Mays wrote: [quote] An Indian LSP
wrote today through Proz.com: Greetings for the
day. This is X X, Vendor Manager at Y y. Nice
to e-meet you. Hope you are doing well
Matthias Brombach May 17, 2023
Trados support cursor position not exact Regular expressions? Does your source contain regular expressions that
were not converted into tags/codes?
Matthias Brombach May 16, 2023
AI for translators and interpreters ChatGPT : Are translators an endangered species ? Your statement... [quote]Jesse Jackson wrote: So rest assured,
translators continue to be an invaluable asset in
fostering global communication and understanding.
Our expertise and human touch cannot be
Matthias Brombach May 15, 2023
Trados support The annoying "object reference not set to an instance of an object" error in St. 2022 (package file) Trados (t)error And? Would you please tell us what solution you
finally opted for? I can already see other posts
from you in other topics of the forums, therefore
you must have found a solution and time f
Matthias Brombach May 9, 2023
Lighter side of trans/interp Future business And I believe... [quote]Boris Rogowski wrote:A big part of me
believes it is unlikely that they will send me
30M+ words for delivery next week, but who knows
:)[/quote] ...that your email postbox soon wi
Matthias Brombach May 9, 2023
Trados support The annoying "object reference not set to an instance of an object" error in St. 2022 (package file) Comments Maybe the trouble was/is caused by comments
integrated into one of your source (Office) files.
I had that caused many problems a couple of years
ago.
Matthias Brombach May 8, 2023
Trados support The annoying "object reference not set to an instance of an object" error in St. 2022 (package file) Create a new project ...and then import all associated files again into
that new project (if your Studio still works at
all, with the other projects done previously). You
should be able to access the .sdlxliff
Matthias Brombach May 8, 2023
Trados support The annoying "object reference not set to an instance of an object" error in St. 2022 (package file) TBs and TMs Maybe you should disconnect all associated TBs and
TMs (and DeepL) and start Studio again. If it
works then, connect them again step for step. Good
luck!
Matthias Brombach May 8, 2023
Powwows Powwow: Haryana - India

[Bearbeitet am 2023-04-29 09:39 GMT]
Matthias Brombach Apr 29, 2023
Powwows Powwow: Haryana - India Good point! [quote]Baran Keki wrote: ...for once, Proz got
this right and is organizing the event in India
for Indians [/quote] The next consequential
step, to get things right, would be organiz
Matthias Brombach Apr 29, 2023
Money matters Client want's to lower payment by 35% after 5 months What countries are involved? I take it that you are based in the USA. In what
country is your client settled and therefore which
jurisdiction is applicable if it came to the
worst?

[Bearbeitet am 2023-04-
Matthias Brombach Apr 24, 2023
Off topic translation is dead as a profession I don't.. [quote]Sadek_A wrote: Regarding that very
specific example I provided, I would love to read
your detailed take on how Grammar caused that
mistranslation. Perhaps, you could also prov
Matthias Brombach Apr 23, 2023
Off topic translation is dead as a profession Because of what? [quote]Sadek_A wrote: [quote]Matthias Brombach
wrote: Arabic and all the Far Eastern languages
have very different grammar compared to the
Germanic languages[/quote] You seem to be
Matthias Brombach Apr 20, 2023
Off topic translation is dead as a profession Question of time [quote]Sadek_A wrote: I see no point in having
such a translation in the first place. What could
be the point of a translation if it can't convey
the actual meaning? That's now the
Matthias Brombach Apr 16, 2023
Site forums The "Houdinis" It's up to you... [quote]Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
wrote: Posters who ask questions (specially
beginner translators looking for advise) and then
disappear from their own thread, never to be heard
Matthias Brombach Apr 15, 2023
Translation Theory and Practice Do translators have a death wish? A CAT tool... [quote]Tom in London wrote: What's changing is
that mechanically written texts that can easily be
translated by a CAT tool will no longer be done by
translators. [/quote] A CAT can't
Matthias Brombach Apr 14, 2023
Translation Theory and Practice Do translators have a death wish? Art and science [quote]Tom in London wrote: I've never
understood why we, the human race, have devoted
most of our efforts and resources to trying to
make an exact replica of ourselves. Why do we want<
Matthias Brombach Apr 13, 2023
Translation Theory and Practice Do translators have a death wish? Floorists [quote]Ice Scream wrote: [quote]Matthias
Brombach wrote: Against who? □ Colleagues
in general □ Cheaper colleagues □ Post
editors □ PMs □ Forists Please tic
Matthias Brombach Apr 12, 2023
Translation Theory and Practice Do translators have a death wish? A death wish? Against who? □ Colleagues in general □
Cheaper colleagues □ Post editors □
PMs □ Forists Please tick your options.
Matthias Brombach Apr 11, 2023
Translation Theory and Practice Do translators have a death wish? No... ...because I know that parts of my very soul as a
translator will still be alive in the material
that has trained DeepL and all the other neuronal
AI systems. So when in 40 years younger c
Matthias Brombach Apr 10, 2023
Money matters Sending reference/recommendation letters to a potential translation agency Okay... ...I missed the point that it was about a direct
client asking for reference. Of course, then you
should not deliver to them proof from agencies. In
that case, your profile photo should be
Matthias Brombach Apr 7, 2023
Money matters Sending reference/recommendation letters to a potential translation agency Yes, but... [quote]expressisverbis wrote: Believe in yourself
and just prove how good you are - and I have
provided them with that. [/quote] ...what
professional harm would it be to offer them a
Matthias Brombach Apr 7, 2023
Marketing for language professionals How do you market yourselves and where do you find the majority of your work? Another advice Why not emailing your PMs then that you recently
adopted a 65 year old puppy via LinkedIn and hone
that story with the aid of ChatGTP? Success then
should be guaranteed!

[Bearbeit
Matthias Brombach Apr 4, 2023


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