As promised a long time ago, we’re here with a text about what it is that translators dislike. There are a couple of examples to mention; however, lest we sound too negative, we encourage you to start with our first article about translators’ likes. What makes us angry, irritated, and annoyed, even if we’re hiding it well? What gets on our nerves, tests our patience, […]
Today, you are officially invited behind the scenes of our office and we’re going to let you take a sneak peak of our everyday translation work. And life, too. It’s hard to say for sure where and when one ends and the other begins. It’s safe to say, though, that no day in the life of a translator is like any other. There is no […]
For many people, the end of the year is a time of looking back on the previous 365 days and drawing necessary conclusions. For us too – we like to take a look at some statistics from time to time and see our work in a rear-view mirror. Needless to say, the year 2019 has passed so quickly and we’re quite surprised to see the […]
In the previous entry, I told you what Computer Aided Translation software was and, also, I covered the CAT basics, namely translation memories (TMs) and glossaries. Today I’m going to describe some other useful features of CATs. Since, as you remember, we operate on Wordfast PRO, I’ll focus on this programme. Projects – where files are gathered First of all, the texts we translate are […]
As we have already mentioned, a majority of translators have cats. Or CATs, actually. What are they? What can they do? What are their functionalities? How do they help? Do they release translators from all their duties and let them fool around and do nothing? Today, we’d like to answer these questions for you. The nature of CATs The CAT abbreviation stands for Computer Assisted […]
Today’s post is going to be somewhat technical, just like the previous one, and dedicated to those of you who are at the beginning of their translation career path. I’m going to tell you more about the computer equipment which is good for translators at present. I’ll focus on PCs and laptops working with Windows, as they are what we use on a daily basis. […]
You certainly have some ideas about how the translator’s work and the process of translation itself looks. They usually involve the translator sitting in front of a computer, ‘transcribing’ the source text – in a digital or printed form, looking up words in a big, old, traditional bilingual dictionary (or a pile of dictionaries), sometimes searching the web. Is this what it actually looks like? […]
Previously on Translatorion… we told you about the types of texts that we translate. Today’s article is a follow-up to that, as it presents various representatives of the realm of translators. We’re also going to point out the categories which apply to us. And like we’ve already said – we don’t mean to pigeonhole anyone but to show you what services a particular person can […]
In our previous post we told you about the things we like. Today, we’d like to tell you more about what we translate – and what we don’t. When we first meet a new person and he or she asks us what we do for a living, the usual reaction to our reply ‘We’re translators’ is ‘Ooooh! So what’s the latest book you’ve translated?’. We’re […]
As we were trying to come up with some subjects to cover in our blog, our friend said she would like to read about the things that annoy, irritate, and drive translators mad. We’ll write about that soon for sure, but we’ve decided to start with something positive. So, today’s post is about what translators like and enjoy most. Let’s begin with a disclaimer: by […]