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191. Several tips for reducing translation cost while increasing translation quality
May 04, 2012
Many businesses ignore the value of pre-editing materials for translation, but this step can reduce costs by 25% and more while ensuring a higher-quality final product. How? By reducing sentences such as "The objective of this chapter is to explain the use of macros in word processing software." to ...
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192. Translation with DTP Partnership
May 02, 2012
A search in any translators' discussion forum will reveal that now and then some less-informed clients expect the 'translation' of a rather complex publication will be no less than an exact replica of the origin...
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193. How to Reduce the Translation Workload
May 02, 2012
The era of handwritten or typewriter translations is one that most of us are not nostalgic about – if they remember it at all. To any modern-day translator, versed in – and addicted to – the cut-and-paste functionality of the latest word processing software, it is almost unimaginable there was ever ...
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194. Sample Translations Break the Rules
April 27, 2012
In my opinion, most of the requests come from customers that are new to translation. They no doubt feel this is an obvious way to test the quality of our work. Sample translations are not the best way to evaluate quality; typically, they don’t follow standard translation processes and they break al...
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195. Translation Technologies and Ethical Implications
April 27, 2012
Technology has been reshaping the concept and practice of translation in many aspects. Until some time ago, translators were expected to be able to work solely on definite source texts with the exclusive aid of dictionaries. Specialists were called upon where research references failed or left holes...
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196. When Spanglish become mainstream
April 24, 2012
Like any other language in the world, Spanish has been dealing for years with new words created as a result of new technologies. Those eventually become mainstreamed and the Real Academia Española accepts them into its dictionary, which is the governing body of the Spanish language. According to Wi...
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197. Translators in the Age of Image and Speech
April 24, 2012
The ways in which translators work, particularly industrial translators, have been undergoing dramatic change since the advent of the computer, the Internet, globalization, the growing use of machine translation and CAT tool programs, and, in the case of into-English translators, the growing use of ...
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198. Why Product Localization Fails?
April 20, 2012
Localizing a product for international markets is not rocket science. And yet, even in the 21st century, we hear of failed international product release attempts or mishaps. The following are some reasons why product localization fails. Improper or incomplete internationalization of the product M...
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199. Translation Memory Tools
April 20, 2012
To really understand TM tools, we have to take a look under the hood. Here is a summary to help you make a more educated decision. All TM tools contain four essential parts: segmenter, parsers, fuzzy match engine and graphical user interface. Segmenter: This is the language-tuned engine that deter...
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200. Translation Database
April 18, 2012
Many content publishers, software perform updates on their product, manuals, website, and marketing literature on regular basis. They update their source language files and engage their localization vendor to update all the supported target |
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