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Translation in the UK | Becoming a certified translator in the UK (English-Dutch) | The other side of the coin | I really don’t think anyone cares whether you have a qualification. So unless you’re struggling to get work, I wouldn’t bother. | Christopher Schröder | May 27 |
Getting established | Can I put the agencies I work with on my CV? | Precision | Can? Yes.
May? Probably not.
Should? Definitely not. | Christopher Schröder | May 27 |
ProZ.com membership | Renew or not renew | No clueny | [quote]Baran Keki wrote:
[quote]Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote: And if I remember correctly, before being Ice Scream, wasn’t he a look alike “George Clooney”? [/quote] Tha | Christopher Schröder | May 26 |
ProZ.com membership | Renew or not renew | Jografi not my strong suit | [quote]Kay Denney wrote:
Baran, you're talking to the artist formerly known as Ice Scream here, literally nothing of what he writes is to be taken seriously. His goal here is to provide l | Christopher Schröder | May 24 |
Powwows | Powwow in Oberursel? | Burying the hatchet | Plenty of small boats you could take across the channel, Baran… Maybe bring a life jacket rather than a hard hat. Hi viz might be a bad idea, but a pair of scissors would be handy once y | Christopher Schröder | May 24 |
ProZ.com membership | Renew or not renew | Bah | [quote]Baran Keki wrote:
Did you notice that the dude who broke the 100k record 2 years ago had a total of 4 or 5 forum posts? He buckled down, didn't complain about AI, kept schtum and h | Christopher Schröder | May 24 |
Money matters | Thoughts On Working With AI to fill the job drought gap? | +1 | [quote]Denis Fesik wrote:
I'm not sure if everyone here sees what I see in my forum feed, but my current feed is chock-full of threads about techy stuff (tools, bots & Co.) and no longer | Christopher Schröder | May 24 |
Translation Project / Vendor Management | Do agencies use bots? | 100% | [quote]Baran Keki wrote:
But nothing can convince me that it's a "good and efficient business mentality" to assign jobs randomly on a first-come-first-served basis. As an agency, you | Christopher Schröder | May 24 |
Translation Project / Vendor Management | Do agencies use bots? | Server speeds? | I would put it down to some people's email downloading more frequently. I can't see any reason for bots to be involved, unless they are just making up jobs to make people feel more and< | Christopher Schröder | May 23 |
ProZ.com membership | Renew or not renew | Lol | [quote]Baran Keki wrote:
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote: I don't believe that clients monitor forum posts. [/quote] That explains why you've earned a grand total of £67 from clien | Christopher Schröder | May 23 |
ProZ.com membership | Renew or not renew | PS | I paid for membership last year for the first time in a decade, pretty much for a bet. After all, it's only £100, less than a morning's work, how could you not earn that back in a yea | Christopher Schröder | May 23 |
ProZ.com membership | Renew or not renew | Another reason not to pay | [quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
You don't often post in the forums, so paying $150 to skip the waiting period before your posts appear wouldn't seem worth it. [/quote] Verified non-paying m | Christopher Schröder | May 23 |
Money matters | Thoughts On Working With AI to fill the job drought gap? | Press releases | [quote]Rita Translator wrote:
generating fictional quotes is also how human-written press releases often work.[/quote] I imagine Peter knows this. His point was more that we as trans | Christopher Schröder | May 16 |
Off topic | What's your good-mood-song? | Oh, Portia | [quote]P.L.F. Persio wrote:
My favourite symphony is Beethoven's 7th, the fourth movement always put me in an excellent mood, especially in this wonderfully energetic, outstanding, and jo | Christopher Schröder | May 15 |
Off topic | What's your good-mood-song? | I thought it was "good mood" songs, not "weird ass" songs? :-) | [quote]Zea_Mays wrote:
And then there was this literally live saving piece (it is used for getting the rhythm for heart massage) with funny video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbh | Christopher Schröder | May 15 |
Translation Theory and Practice | When a client wants 'corrections' that will make the translation bad | +1 | [quote]Kay Denney wrote:
I have found, when trying to explain something to a client, that it helps if I concede one point. [/quote] Obviously I would never make a concession as su | Christopher Schröder | May 14 |
Translation Theory and Practice | When a client wants 'corrections' that will make the translation bad | Failure | [quote]Christine Andersen wrote:
In the end it´s the client´s text. They will mess it up if they want to, so don´t lose sleep over it! [/quote] They will indeed, and I don't lo | Christopher Schröder | May 14 |
Translation Theory and Practice | When a client wants 'corrections' that will make the translation bad | Up to you | I would double down but I’m a bolshie diva who would happily die on this hill. | Christopher Schröder | May 14 |
ProZ.com technical support | Email address data breach from Proz | Data protection racket | [quote]Zea_Mays wrote:
[quote]Thomas T. Frost wrote: Does Proz prefer that we report it to an EU data protection authority instead, leading to potential fines? [/quote] I think t | Christopher Schröder | May 10 |
Money matters | Statute of limitation in Belgium? Agency refuses to pay. | I feel like... | ... I would need to know how much is owing before investing any time in this. | Christopher Schröder | May 8 |
Business issues | What would you do if your peer translators copy your profile script? | Have a word? | Why not ask them about it and see what they say? | Christopher Schröder | May 7 |
Sustainability in our line of work | Share your tips on sustainable work practices | Another tip | Buy less stuff.
I recently discovered that Port Talbot steelworks just along the coast from us singlehandedly puts out 2% of total UK carbon emissions. So it's not just about transport, | Christopher Schröder | Apr 23 |
Sustainability in our line of work | Share your tips on sustainable work practices | Duty of care | [quote]Rachel Waddington wrote:
The point of a plant-based diet is that it would take far *less* cultivated land to feed us all on plants than on meat. Cutting out beef in particular is o | Christopher Schröder | Apr 23 |
Sustainability in our line of work | Share your tips on sustainable work practices | Perspective | [quote]IrinaN wrote:
how exactly could I have reached Mount Fuji, Chechen Itza, The Cape of Good Hope, Pyramids, Louvre and Prado by rail from Houston, TX? You may be content to live with | Christopher Schröder | Apr 22 |
Money matters | The world is going crazy! | Not that bad | [quote]Keith Jackson wrote:
the rates are as follows: • Translation: $0.045 USD per word • Proofreading/QA: $0.025 USD per word Our client insists on working exclusively | Christopher Schröder | Apr 21 |
Sustainability in our line of work | Share your tips on sustainable work practices | Tips | I forgot to add a tip, which would be turn down/off the heating/aircon. That has to be our biggest energy use. I’ve always thought it would be better to upgrade bits of my PC than | Christopher Schröder | Apr 21 |
Translation Theory and Practice | David Graeber Bulls**P Jobs - did you read it? Would you consider you have a bulls*** job? | No change | [quote]Anna Sarah Krämer wrote:
I'm sure you all will forgive dragging this thread out of its shallow grave, for some studies in anthropology maybe? I've stopped translating marketi | Christopher Schröder | Apr 20 |
Sustainability in our line of work | Share your tips on sustainable work practices | If only | [quote]Rachel Waddington wrote:
For example: Plant-based catering at translator events Encouraging translators to travel to conferences by rail Running climate literacy courses | Christopher Schröder | Apr 20 |
Sustainability in our line of work | Share your tips on sustainable work practices | How? | [quote]Rachel Waddington wrote:
Also: if you are a member of a translation association, push them to do more. Individual actions don't amount to much, but if we come together as a | Christopher Schröder | Apr 19 |
Translation Theory and Practice | Sped up | Only natural | [quote]Peter Motte wrote:
It's not only the automation. I became faster myself. E.g.: I don't use speech recognition. I have it, but I rarely use it. [/quote] It would be strange if | Christopher Schröder | Apr 17 |
AI for translators and interpreters | AI chatbots ‘think’ in English | :-) | Thinking in English never did me any harm. Or did it...? It's good news for those who don't work to/from English I guess. | Christopher Schröder | Apr 17 |
Business issues | Has anyone used a contract with the client? | What does it say? | Every time we accept a job we enter into a contract, so it being in writing doesn't have to be a big deal. You just need to read it and see if there's anything you don't like. You could al | Christopher Schröder | Apr 17 |
Off topic | I'd like to use pseudonym in my works | The irony | Most people here now seem to get ChatGPT to do their work but send it out under their own name. | Christopher Schröder | Apr 16 |
Machine Translation (MT) | Automate commands to ChatGPT (Windows) | Do you really need to ask why? | [quote]Cilian O'Tuama wrote:
Here is an entire(!) chat I had with ChatGPT only yesterday. --- Me Do either (or perhaps both) of the words "gyros" and gyrus" contain the letter O? | Christopher Schröder | Apr 13 |
Internet for translators | Find a technical answer very fast, especially if it's already been answered, make a Chat Bot work! | PSA: Thread is about answers to IT problems, not translation problems | [quote]Philippe Locquet wrote:
At no point this experiment was aimed at finding terms or help with text translations. Please watch the video so it make sense to you ( I have set the link | Christopher Schröder | Apr 2 |
Internet for translators | Find a technical answer very fast, especially if it's already been answered, make a Chat Bot work! | How does this help? | [quote]Philippe Locquet wrote:
Let me know if it worked for you, I'd love to hear about it. And to be honest, I think that's a great place for AI at the moment, do the chores we want to | Christopher Schröder | Apr 2 |
Translation Project / Vendor Management | Lilt - impossible to contact and terrible CAT tool | Equity | How come we’re allowed to slag off CAT providers on here but not translation agencies? | Christopher Schröder | Mar 31 |
ProZ.com contests - discussion of competition in specific pairs | Discussion about 32nd Translation Contest: "Movie night" in Norwegian to English | What a waste of time for all concerned | I spent ages checking and rating all the different translations of an overly long text. What a waste of everyone's time if there is no winner. Why not ask someone who didn't enter to judg | Christopher Schröder | Mar 28 |
Money matters | Advice Needed: Client Dispute Over Translation Project | Did you mess up or not? | Did you mess up or not?
If not, keep the money and tell them to do one. If you did, consult your conscience. | Christopher Schröder | Mar 28 |
Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing | Difference between MTPE and proofreading | The client is not in charge | [quote]Lieven Malaise wrote:
You are missing the point. If a client wishes that his text is checked for grammar and spelling only, and he pays for that exact service, then that is what | Christopher Schröder | Mar 28 |
Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing | Difference between MTPE and proofreading | Splitting hairs again | What is meant by revising, correcting, checking, editing, proofreading and so on clearly varies from customer to customer and job to job, so just charge by the hour for whatever it is they | Christopher Schröder | Mar 27 |
ProZ.com contests - discussion of specific editions | 32nd translation contest another disaster | Finally a contest in one of my languages, but what a waste of everyone's time entering and voting when not a single winner was chosen for translation of the Norwegian text into any lan | Christopher Schröder | Mar 26 | |
Business issues | Is the number of jobs posted on Proz in decline? (some hard stats) | Longer term? | Interesting. While this may say something about the impact of AI, the perceived decline in jobs on here has been going on for many years. Are there any longer-term stats to challenge that | Christopher Schröder | Mar 26 |
Sustainability in our line of work | Have you ever had a client you were just "afraid to take seriously"? | Under the bridge | Sounds like the troll getting trolled 😂 | Christopher Schröder | Mar 19 |
Off topic | In my craft or sullen art: JA-EN financial translation | Is Japan really so different? | [quote]Dan Lucas wrote:
To go back to your point, in terms of our pair I do consider the risk-averse nature of Japanese society to be a specific factor that exacerbates this general tende | Christopher Schröder | Mar 15 |
Translation news | Live Newsfeed: News from the ProZ.com Empowerment team | TLDR | Lovely though it is to see you scratching your nose, a few written bullet points might reach more people on here. | Christopher Schröder | Mar 14 |
Business issues | Is this the state of the translation industry today? | Eh? | [quote]George Trail wrote:
Is this the state of the translation industry today? I don't know about you but I don't know how much longer I can cling on. I'm talking about CAT tools - but a | Christopher Schröder | Mar 14 |
Being independent | How to let agencies know you're unavailable | By email | Simply reply to each job offer that you can't take it. You can't get that many. | Christopher Schröder | Mar 12 |
ProZ.com suggestions | Please remove ChatGPT option from KudoZ (Staff: removed) | Improved version | Sorry, that rant was almost ChatGPT essay length. So I just asked ChatGPT: "Please improve the grammar and syntax and style of the following text and make it half the length:" And here | Christopher Schröder | Mar 12 |
ProZ.com suggestions | Please remove ChatGPT option from KudoZ (Staff: removed) | Good to hear, but ProZ is still hell-bent on promoting ChatGPT, which is still woeful, and I despair | I've had extensive exposure to ChatGPT in the past week. First, I watched a few talks in ProZ's AI Expo: two on CAT tools that use AI, one on free AI tools, one on ProZ's own Pastey, o | Christopher Schröder | Mar 12 |
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