Tuesday, April 10, 2012

7 Optimization techniques for agencies' automated systems

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7 comments:

  1. JenniferApril 10, 2012 at 2:08 PM

    Two Thai and two Klingon characters! :-D

    The last point, asking for feedback and then crashing when you try to give it, has happened to me with Gmail...

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    1. iantApril 10, 2012 at 11:41 PM

      Useless facts: QuarkXpress used to have a Jabberwocky function that would have made writing those two Klingon characters much easier :-).

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  2. UnknownApril 10, 2012 at 2:21 PM

    And then make sure that the system only works in Internet Explorer, so that all translators that normally use other browsers will have to open a separate one for this purpose only!

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  3. AhmedApril 10, 2012 at 2:53 PM

    I was asked once by an agency to TRANSLATE the user interface and the manual of their crappy IT system FOR FREE. And it was more than 3200 words!

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  4. AnonymousApril 10, 2012 at 7:17 PM

    This happened to me recently, I had to fire this agency which had a torture system for translators and thought to be incredibly organized instead. They were literally driving me NUTS! I feel like sending them this link now!

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  5. msgApril 10, 2012 at 7:40 PM

    This time you really hit one of my biggest pet peeves!!! But you left out a key component: Send out the instructions in German so that all non-German readers have to request an English version in which you can just hear the German behind it and see it, with all those commas before "that".

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  6. AnonymousApril 11, 2012 at 1:38 PM

    This is not funny - it's simply a factual and accurate description of how many agencies work ... Am I allowed to mention names? There is one based in Denmark, with branch offices in several northern European countries. I am sure many of you will know which one I mean. But of course, the same is true for several multinational agencies headquartered in New York.
    John Kinory

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