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There is an online, and comparatively cheap, method of issuing a payment demand (commandement de payer) in Switzerland. If not disputed within a set time limit, it becomes equivalent to a
"Quality" is a highly subjective concept. Strict percentage measurement is simply dictatorial. Any agency worth its salt will treat quality issues on a case-by-case basis. In the event of
The moderators have either the time or the inclination to look at duplicated questions. As for the glossary, despite its undoubted usefulness, it's already in a mess and cleaning it up
I spent several days trying all the available free tools (a few years ago) but they could not handle accented letters and most of them were poor with layouts.
Everything depends on how of
Only a "clean" PDF can be properly handled in MemoQ. The fact is that most PDFs that I get sent by clients are scans, and these won't work reliably.
I always try asking for a Word doc, bu
Following previous queries about this feature, I decided as an experiment to log out and to post a question as a "non-logged in visitor". When the question appeared (after a delay of 6 day
I enjoy winding up these scam phone callers who are going to give you free loft insulation by giving them a fake address and fake bank card number. Another favourite - I keep a loud, shril
[quote]Alayna Keller wrote:
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Dear Alayna, you are translating legal Spanish into legal English, not Spanish law into English law. English knows the meaning of
Some translation agencies can be pretty vague about this sort of thing. What I would always do, other than your own research (most embassies and government authorities etc. have details on
I translate French to English. Many French legal documents retain what I regard as a very dated style of indenting the first line of each paragraph and often making further multiple in
that many of us freelance translators are paying membership fees to ProZ. As such, we ought to have some degree of say in the site's policies. Undermining and demeaning us by allowing agen
What do other site users think about ProZ consistently allowing a particular translation agency in Paris to advertise jobs with a budget of around €0.045 per word? The subject areas for<
Has anyone else received this through ProZ email?
Hello,
My name is David and I'm a Research Assistant working with
Health first Laboratories USA. It's a BioPharmaceutical
Com
Well they say all is fair in love and war, but of course ProZ is neither love nor war, it's a professional site where peers are entitled to rigorously comment on translation suggestions. T
I beg to differ; "nonsense" is decidedly a linguistic term and it plainly means that something does not make sense. If a translator posts something (in their own native language) which
I imported a MemoQ XLIFF file sent to me. Everything was then seemingly identical to translating a Word file.
When I tried to export the finished translation, all options were greyed
Is ProZ senior management listening to the opinions expressed here? Would they care to reply? And is ProZ receiving a nice backhander from Facebook et al for incorprating their buttons ont
What do we need social media links for at all on the ProZ site? Opinions are expressed in anwering KudoZ questions and commenting on other people's answers. We have the forums which encour
... that I don't want to see an "automatic" sharing button on this site at all. I paid my subscription to join a professional site, not something linked to social media. This facility is
This clarifies how the media buttons work, but from my point of view it doesn't reassure me that even if I never use the buttons, nothing I have posted on the ProZ site can ever be seen on
is for ProZ to poll all of its fee-paying members and to ask them clearly:-
(a) Whether they want these links to social madia, with all that that implies
(b) Whether they want "interna
Personally, I cannot see the point of this. Who is going to take any notice of how many times a button gets pushed, and even if they do, what will happen then?
This is a professional website. I for one don't want to see ANY connection with Facebook, given its activities over the past couple of months. Why on earth would ProZ users want to waste t
Linguee is an excellent resource, but when using the lookup facility within memoQ it isn't possible to see the site without annoying banner ads on both sides of the working area.
What i
I would dearly like to know if it possible to websearch to Linguee from memoQ and to arrive at the site clean of banner advertisements. Some of these contain (in my view potentially danger
As we (at least some of us) are constantly saying on the KudoZ forum - context, context, context. It's relatively simple to find translations on the Internet, but it takes experience and a
I will not be able to attend, but would definitely be interested for a later date if enough freelancers can be got together
All best
Chris Farrall (Chandlers Ford)
shortest distance is "A to B" ("give me the end product without all the techy") perhaps it is simply time to ditch this agency
BUT: perhaps there are others here who could find a (s
Dear Fourth
I read your concerns about Déja Vu with a good deal of sympathy. But first of all I want you to know that these impressions you have of "being there before" or "this happen
Although machine translation often yields unusable results, I sometimes find it useful for reducing the amount of re-typing I have do when I don't get matches from my own TMs.
Has anyon
I have been using WF Classic up to now, but have migrated to WF Pro.
In WF Classic I had both Google Translate and MyMemory side by side. Invariably, MyMemory gave me better machine t
Wordfast Pro supports machine translation with Google Translate, MS Translate & WorldLingo.
Does anyone know whether MyMemory can be used with WF Pro and if so what is the procedure for
I have just started to use WF Pro. Every time I move from segment to segment within a documrnt being translated, a dialogue box flashes up momentarily. Its duration is subliminal and it is
Thanks for that. I looked it up too, but that review is only available to subsribers to Multilingual. As for Multicorpora's reference (on their own site) to a review by "Commonsense Ad
I said "for legal translators" but it is in fact useful for any specialist subject.
The U.S. version is at scholar.google.com and I believe you can replace ". com" with your the suffix fo
Do you, like me, frequently search in Google, either for a term, legislation, etc.?
You will be aware how much "noise" (i.e. irrelevant results) is generated.
Using Google Scholar for a
Could you perhaps summarise by saying how fast you find the translating facility to work? compared to another CAT tool you have used? Is there a limit to the amount of documentary data you
Is speed an issue when you have a large number of documents to leverage content from? And am I right in thinking that web-based corpora can be assessed in the same operation? How does one
There is very little about this CAT tool on the ProZ forums. The freelance dition appranetl costs 799 USD and leverages content not only from the user's TMs but from selected online corpor
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