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[quote]Teresa Borges wrote:
dumbphone and dumb phone?
Dumbphone
noun
a description used for a mobile phone which is not a smartphone (=a mobile phone that also works as a small
Agencies (and probably a lot of translators) are not going to agree with me, but I’m going to say what I’m going to say.
The user-entered variants of Chinese are currently Mandarin,
For example, the first version in #107 is obviously wrong, but it’s presented in such a way that looks like both versions are equally valid.
Why not just scrap the wrong versions
[quote]Rolf Kern wrote:
According to the WEBSTER the definition of "mother tongue" is not "mother's tongue", but rather "native language". [/quote]
Of course, but what does that
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
Without a CAT tool I work much, much slower, even if the text is not repetitive. The segmentation really helps me focus on what I have to do.[/quote]
Thi
And that’s why I have shied away from ProZ for a year.
If you asked me to translate into my mother tongue that would usually be a serious mistake. Perhaps the insistence of forcing
[quote]david young wrote:
- I my field - science - the slightest mistake in retranscibing a number can have catastrophic consequences, and one thing translation software guarantees, for
I was also wondering why Finnish is not there. There was one that I thought might be Spanish, but later I found more that looked like Spanish to me… so only 11…
By the way, what is
[quote]Ty Kendall wrote:
b) Checking obvious things for discrepancies (IP address, Whois database etc).
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Just one caveat: Take discrepancies between IP address and geographi
[quote]Bernhard Sulzer wrote:
Says one English native speaker to another: "Do you really think I am a native speaker of English?" Says the other: "Why would you ask such a silly qu
[quote]Nani Delgado wrote:
I am not getting into this language varieties discussion, as it has nothing to do with the topic. Non-native language proficiency will never be a variety of a
[quote]Phil Hand wrote:
Mandarin and Cantonese are the most important example. They are mutually unintelligible.
Mandarin (which is a recent synthetic language - there is an argument
[quote]Bernhard Sulzer wrote:
You're saying when people from different Chinese regions try to SPEAK to each other, they might not understand each other's speech at all. So, there is no
[quote]Bernhard Sulzer wrote:
I was referring to native Chinese speakers - my definition for native speaker was along the lines of having grown up and attended schools in a Chinese-spea
[quote]Bernhard Sulzer wrote:
Do you really believe that?
[quote]Ambrose Li wrote:
This is so true. And it does affect translation quality—quite negatively in fact, which is p
[quote]Phil Hand wrote:
@Ambrose
OK, so this is a valid point, if true. Finally we get to a reasonable argument over this whole idea.
1) Do you have any evidence? -- and you know
[quote]José Henrique Lamensdorf wrote:
I can't mention names here, however a short visit to the translators application page on an expressive number of outsourcers' web sites will show
[quote]Phil Hand wrote:
What school did you go to? [Unless the school name has the word "international" or the name of a language/another country in, t pops up a list of the official
[quote]Charlie Bavington wrote:
d) it can be tested (as my own splendid O-level in English Language testifies, and no doubt countless other exams the world over do likewise, and as has
[quote]Phil Hand wrote:
But what you're writing is worthless. It's nonsensical. It's self-contradictory. [/quote]
[quote]Balasubramaniam L. wrote:
Also note the wrong English us
[quote]Philippe Etienne wrote:
1. source text is written like the output of a machine
2. a dictionary is fed into the MT engine
3. TMs of old docs fed into the MT engine for a hybrid<
[quote]Matt Petrowski wrote:
Could you provide "direct links" from the bottom of search result pages that demonstrate these issues? As far as how the matching and sorting is performed:
I tried the search and got 83 results. Restrict to Spanish->English and I got 18. Turn on all options and I got 23.
I did not get 73 results, nor did I get 3.
This seems to suggest s
[quote]Bernhard Sulzer wrote:
I'll even write an essay in German on why it's important and give that to her/him.
That oughta do it.[/quote]
Let me first reiterate that I’m
I did a quick test and I can confirm that we are indeed getting sensible results now. Kudos for that.
That said, I am seeing two problems even with this very quick test:
1. The resul
[quote]Skallagrimson wrote:
if there is any text placed on the images, file need to be converted to PDF format. [/quote]
I doubt that will do any good. A raster image converted into<
[quote]Lori Cirefice wrote:
Descriptions of food at the breakfast buffet - honestly almost everything was cracking me up, but I didn't have enough paper to write it all down:
- butte
But that’s not the same because Chinese characters simply aren’t used in English. Greek characters are, in certain specialized domains (e.g., chemistry), and should Greek letters be
[quote]Bernhard Sulzer wrote:
Yes, being a native speaker does not necessarily mean you can handle marketing material. But it is probably a very important, maybe even the first factor y
[quote]Balasubramaniam L. wrote:
4. It will curb lying to a large extent because it would be nearly impossible to lie about all the criteria. For example, if a person reports Chinese as
I never said non-natives can “become,” so to speak, native speakers; what I disagreed with was using the specific example given by Chomsky as a test for nativeness, and, by extension,
[quote]Ty Kendall wrote:
I'm not sure it's about knowing. I think Chomsky's choice of verb there is unfortunate, it would have been better to use "senses" (every native speaker of Engli
[quote]psicutrinius wrote:
[…]
Constructions of this type -- where you can or cannot drop the pronoun -- are very rare. In fact, they are so rare that it is quite likely that during
[quote]José Henrique Lamensdorf wrote:
... one must learn a list of keywords that the Jigsaw-MT they use consistently mistranslates. One example I know (from my Peeler instructions exa
[quote]Tomás Cano Binder, CT wrote:
Well, apart from the potential privacy issues you are probably aware of already... the answer is quite simple: Google Translator Toolkit is not a CA
[quote]Bernhard Sulzer wrote:
[quote]Bernhard Sulzer wrote:
Besides that, a highly fluent non-native speaker could possibly pick them all correctly. Does that make him/her a native
[quote]Phil Hand wrote:
Ambrose - I think you're worrying a bit unnecessarily. There is a lot of variation between CN/HK/TW, to be sure, but when a non-native writes, it's pretty obviou
[quote]Charlie Bavington wrote:
I find that hard to believe, in truth, that any language would be such that non-natives could write it indistiguishably from natives, but allowing for
[quote]Sheila Wilson wrote:
It seems that some people here doubt that there is a problem (why would anyone lie?) and the same and/or other people maintain that native speakers would not
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
G'day everyone
I think it is assumed by many here that natives can spot other natives, and that they can also spot non-natives.
Let me repeat: the as
[quote]Ty Kendall wrote:
...I said it might be an idea for the graders to come from the same country if it was really deemed necessary.
…
Edited to add:
The "graders from t
[quote]Lisa Simpson, MCIL wrote:
Luis I wasn't being sarcastic I was just asking, since Janet had quoted from the FAQs, if the wording in the FAQs had just been changed in any way. To m
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
Hey, I have a great idea about HOW TO VERIFY a person's native language. Simply ask him in which language he would be happy to receive materials to sign bef
[quote]Phil Hand wrote:
[quote]Ambrose Li wrote:
Your conclusion would basically strike out a significant portion of Canada[/quote]
Ambrose, if you could explain this a little
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