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Interesting post, I'd like to share.
The first time I visited Brazil I spent EXACTLY two months just travelling around and doing whatever I pleased - it was great. However, I remember
I'll try not to write a book...
Firstly; there are times when YOU or I need help from other translators or, at the very least, simple confirmation and opinions from others. Kudoz ex
Me and my family meal together every day, whenever possible; one of the great things about living in Latin America and having a family. However, when I have an urgent deadline I usually go
The Sinclair ZX81, later followed by the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k and the Commodore 64.
Neither of them had hard drives, floppy drives - ANY sort of drive whatsoever.
I still have ye
[quote]Yaotl Altan wrote:
Right, the disagree button is helpful to show our position on the matter. How? Pressing it. When a user collects many disagrees, he/she will be linked to usel
[quote]Jana Zajicova wrote:
I plead guilty. I've got points in English-Slovak, Slovak-English, Polish-German, German-Italian. Well, I wasn't exactly guessing but the fun element was
[quote]Margreet Logmans wrote:
[quote]Bin Tiede wrote:
The translators for the pharma industry will be paid with drugs... [/quote]
Considering I've just finshed a translation on a
The company must think that there is now a natural affiliation between you and shar-pei dogs because of the amount of work you've already done for them. So accept the dog and sell it to a
I love the furry types, but they don't compare to the software CAT versions, sorry. I'm definitely a PRO-CAT man.
I use(d) Wordfast; have done for some time (and I really love it), but
If your maximum output per day is 3000 words, for example, and you accept a 'tomorrow' deadline of 3000 words, then it's going to be rather silly accepting another job with a similar deadl
We sleep downstairs, near to the kitchen, but we have a living area and an office upstairs - rather the inverse of UK homes I guess.
My office has a door and air-con, so when the kids a
I'm not really sure what was implied by the question...at a high 'financial' price, agreed - I don't earn what I used to in Information Technology. But at a high 'personal' price? No!
Glad to see you are learning the English language - and you speak so well!
If you want to be a professional translator and seriously work in this industry then you need to start writing
I know exactly where my files are on my computer so I don't need to, or ever have to, use a file search program. It's just a question of being organised.
The only exception perhaps is t
A very interesting topic I feel.
I personally Love / Hate Kudoz all at the same time. I'm sure that many of you agree?
However, there are so many edges to the Kudoz point sword that it
I hesitated and then responded "other".
My main criterion is 'whether I can do a good job' / 'the ability to do a good job'.
What is the point of accepting a job at high rates if the
If I came across my specialist pairs, Portuguese to English, I may well have a bash, but I've not seen them yet. Are these pairs in the contest this time around?
I had to buy some of this in the hardware store and it took me about half an hour just to say it for the first time.
Yes, I'd like some 'impermilli', 'imperbilli'...
It's a wonderful
I was just discussing this in-house about five minutes ago.
It's not that one cannot make large financial decisions, one can, but personally I only feel comfortable stretching the finan
I certainly don't suffer from the same levels of stress that I used to, simply because I mostly enjoy my job now, even when the source material is really boring. The majority of people in
What a strange question - I could only reply 'of course'. I suppose the answer depends largely on who one comes into contact with on a daily basis. I teach professionally, non-professional
OK, I usually prefer absolute silence, even the sound of people nattering in the background or the slightest distraction can sometimes drive me crazy, but every now and again it's nice to
I think you have to be open-minded in your attitude towards life and therefore before starting out on a career as a translator but not necessarily open-minded AS a translator itself. In
Well I usually just speak Portuguese really as that's what nearly everyone speaks over here. I wish I could go out into the street and have a conversation in English with the neighbours or
What incredible figures - 60 percent - that's 600 people out of 1000, say they have NEVER, ever been asked for any credentials. 'Never' is a very strong word! Does that mean that if I say
[quote]TampaTranslator wrote:
Scroll down the page for screenshots from Star Wars
http://antibody-software.com/web/index.php?opt ion=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=36
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Richard, were you thinking of rule 3.6? "No attempt may be made to influence others' decisions. Encouraging an asker to choose one's own suggested translation, or peers to agree w
Hi Mediamatrix,
The Ratio process is good fun (statistically) but doesn't really hold up as a fair measure of reliability because of the following:
1)
If you take a look at the Kudo
If my original post appeared to be a little ambiguous, apologies; I don't think the Kudoz 'disagree' feature is bad or that it should be removed. It's essential.
Personally however, I
Yes, I agree with you all, especially Bill.
If an answer is WRO-O-ONG, then of course, it should be disagreed with, wholeheartedly so. (Imagine if you 'couldn't disagree' with a wrong a
Hi ALL,
Could somebody tell me if disagreeing with a another person's post and then posting your own answer is 'prohibited'?
As far as I'm concerned, it should be.
I have in the p
One of the great things about the Kudoz system is the competitive edge; knowing that if you give a wrong answer, everyone on Proz, including all the minor/abstract language pairs, could be
Skype was brought down because of an overload on their server nodes, i.e. nodes going down and temporarily being off-air.
Q: So why is it that Skype's servers crashed to such a high
In fact, it's the feature that I least like on Proz.
Why?
Because I want to have a life after administration!
Obviously, being a conscientious person and translator, I always
I think what's really bonkers is that at times I spend more time answering and helping out with other translator's questions than doing my own research :) - but I'm not addicted or anythin
Well, I actually (for once) clicked on the 'discussion' link and got here, instead of just rushing back to work or Kudoz or something more interesting after I had looked at the poll st
Erika,
If you are an independent freelancer and you have a personal website you are not going to get as many hits on it as you imagine, not at first - sorry, that's the blunt truth. You
I have a wooden desk, that's it.
Actually, the last mat I had drove me round the twist because one of my sons partially peeled off the top layer causing it curl up and start flapping ar
I agree, the colours are not the most wonderfully catchy on the web, but I think the site is purposely made to look a bit rustic and tweedy, a bit Sunday dinner, pipes and slippers by the
Hi Andy,
I understand the problem; you have to leave the energy sapping computer on all day, even when you're on holiday. And, no, you're not the only one to use diverted POP3 mail from
Hi,
Make sure that before you do ANY type of merge or make any type of radical change to your database(s) that you copy the TMs (.txt files) to a backup location.
Once you've done yo
Somewhere between 20-40% of each translation job I do consists of and/or is discounted based on fuzzy factors and repetitions. The agency will not pay the same rates for repeated words and
Drew,
I realise now in hindsight that I'd opened up another web browser to see how the site functions and hadn't logged in. Once I had logged in those nasty adverts went away.
Thanks
Hi all,
I really love ProZ and all the member features. I spend far too much time here!
I just noticed the Kudoz section smattered with Google Adsense Advertising, top and bottom, an
Amy,
I'm a subscribed Google advertiser and have a Google API (Search Engine Service KEY), but have never seen or had such an email.
Without actually seeing the email it's impossible t
Hi,
Just to verify what everyone is saying here...I'm also not getting any Job, Kudoz or general notifications. Since Friday evening.
I checked my 'Availability' at first because I m
Thanks Angela
Your comments are very helpful. The nominal subscription fee is a way of seperating the wheat from the chaff so to speak. With no fee there would be potentially thousands<
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