Friday, April 27, 2012

10 Why translators will be replaced by machine translation

why translators will be replaced by machine translation
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 Based on an idea by Margret Orf. Margret is a certified Spanish<>German translator and lives in Barcelona with her son Daniel and her two bilingual cats, Sort and Litsi.

10 comments:

  1. MagdalenaApril 27, 2012 at 11:08 AM

    Oh, this is soooo true ! Sometimes I get the impression that the client is offended if I point out some errors in their text!

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    1. AnonymousApril 27, 2012 at 1:20 PM

      Not an impression but a fact! xD Great Mox, as always :)

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  2. JenniferApril 27, 2012 at 11:19 AM

    I've been very lucky! My clients are generally pleased that I point things out -- it gives added value to the translation, improving their original document as well.

    One of my favorite replies when I ask questions about something unclear in a technical manual I'm translating is: "Oh, just leave it out." I can't tell you how many times a client has told me that! Hello, it's in there for a reason! They were trying to say SOMETHING! :-D

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  3. GiselleApril 27, 2012 at 11:23 AM

    Mir geht es wie Jennifer - in beiden Punkten. :)

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  4. Victor DewsberyApril 27, 2012 at 12:11 PM

    Even lawyers goof it up sometimes. Several times I have seen "Auftraggeber" (=client) and "Auftragnehmer (=contractor) switched in a provision of a contract. In a contract it MIGHT JUST BE IMPORTANT to get it right (who does what? who pays for what?). The lawyers are invariably thankful when I point out such errors (although I try to do it delicately, suggesting that they might like to check whether what they wrote was really what they wanted to write).

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  5. AnonymousApril 27, 2012 at 1:21 PM

    Translating audit reports and financial statements, I've come across documents that are missing USD 1M and more. I usually check and double-check the numbers, trying to find where the error is and I let my clients know about it. They've thanked me, of course. Unfortunately, I've never found an extra million dollars in the item "Translations and other monkey work."

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  6. Brin @foodfortranslators.comApril 27, 2012 at 2:55 PM

    Sadly, agencies like this really do exist...

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  7. AnonymousApril 27, 2012 at 3:29 PM

    congratulations!!!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6DMxEUdbzI

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  8. Polish interpreterApril 28, 2012 at 9:39 PM

    Yes it's so true for some!!!

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  9. CassyApril 29, 2012 at 7:26 AM

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