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Off topic I'd like to use pseudonym in my works I'm guessing [quote]Teuvo Matala wrote: I'd like to use
pseudonym in my works So, how do I do that?
[/quote] I assume you mean that you want to
publish your writing or translations under a
pseud
Samuel Murray Apr 16
CAT Tools Technical Help Wordbee -- how to search for or filter by tabs @Stepan [quote]Stepan Konev wrote: This page mentions
that Wordbee can do regex
search...[/quote] Thanks, that works (one also
has to select the language in which to search).
Samuel Murray Apr 15
CAT Tools Technical Help Wordbee -- how to search for or filter by tabs Hello everyone I translate Wordbee projects by
exporting to Excel and then importing again. I've
noticed, however, that if the source text contains
tabs, then those tabs do not survive
Samuel Murray Apr 14
Machine Translation (MT) Automate commands to ChatGPT (Windows) Want more chat, then ask for it [quote]Samuel Murray wrote: I wonder how I can
get the AHK utility to give me the same types of
answers that I get in the browser. In the
browser, Chat GPT is friendly, chatty and gives<
Samuel Murray Apr 14
Machine Translation (MT) Automate commands to ChatGPT (Windows) Here's what I get [quote]Cilian O'Tuama wrote: Do either (or
perhaps both) of the words "gyros" and gyrus"
contain the letter O? If so, as which letter does
it appear?[/quote] GTP-3.5: Yes, both "gyros" a
Samuel Murray Apr 13
Machine Translation (MT) Automate commands to ChatGPT (Windows) @Cilian [quote]Cilian O'Tuama wrote: OK, it's the free
version, with data 2 years old (not that that
would matter here). Are Gpt4 etc. worth paying
attention to?[/quote] I've asked Chat GPT seve
Samuel Murray Apr 13
Money matters A translation agency asked me money back @Serena [quote]Serena Rotundo wrote: Unfortunately, I
cannot find my quote ... and there was none on the
job post.[/quote] So, you can't see your quote
here? https://www.proz.com/translation-jo
Samuel Murray Apr 12
Machine Translation (MT) Automate commands to ChatGPT (Windows) @Hans [quote]Hans Lenting wrote: As I don't use ChatGPT
for MT, I'm wondering: Is its cost comparable to
MT systems such as DeepL? Or is ChatGPT much more
expensive? [/quote] Here is a communi
Samuel Murray Apr 11
Machine Translation (MT) Automate commands to ChatGPT (Windows) @Michael II [quote]Samuel Murray wrote: [quote]Michael Beijer
wrote: 1.
https://github.com/kdalanon/ChatGPT-AutoHotkey-Uti
lity (to act on selections on my computer, and
process them using the C
Samuel Murray Apr 11
Machine Translation (MT) Automate commands to ChatGPT (Windows) @Michael [quote]Michael Beijer wrote: 1.
https://github.com/kdalanon/ChatGPT-AutoHotkey-Uti
lity (to act on selections on my computer, and
process them using the ChatGPT API) [/quote] I
got t
Samuel Murray Apr 11
Machine Translation (MT) Automate commands to ChatGPT (Windows) @Milan [quote]Milan Condak wrote: There is a link to
QTranslate in discussion ... [/quote] Thanks. It
doesn't currently work, but I can see in the JS
file what they're doing. They use an
H
Samuel Murray Apr 11
Scams A "client" that seemed legitimate spent €250 to later on reclaim €600. @Keith [quote]Keith Jackson wrote: That is the cost of
doing their scamming operation. The scam consist
in convincing me to refund the money before
"collecting" it. I am sure that the funds are
Samuel Murray Apr 11
Machine Translation (MT) Automate commands to ChatGPT (Windows) Hello everyone Does anyone know of a free
Windows utility with which I can automate
questions to ChatGPT? I'm using the free version.
It's fine if the answers appear in the
browse
Samuel Murray Apr 10
Scams A "client" that seemed legitimate spent €250 to later on reclaim €600. @Keith, likely not a scam What I would do, is to pick up the money and then
send it back to them, either also with Western
Union or with a bank transfer. EUR 600 is a lot
of money in African countries. I don't
Samuel Murray Apr 10
Software applications Help convert SVG to PNG or JPG Found one https://www.online-convert.com/ Samuel Murray Apr 10
Software applications Help convert SVG to PNG or JPG Hello everyone I have an SVG file that I want
to convert to a PNG or JPG image of around 15000 x
15000. I've tried some online utilities but none
of them allow me to increase the size
Samuel Murray Apr 10
Powwows Powwow: Kharkiv - Ukraine Acceptance that one is not alone in this world is part of growing up When people see beauty or utility in your culture
and then copy it or adapt it to their own culture,
you should be pleased, not upset.
Samuel Murray Apr 9
Apple/Mac operating systems How to translate .pages documents Older version [quote]Hans Lenting wrote: Convert to an older
version? [/quote] That's not going to be
lossless, though.
Samuel Murray Apr 8
Scams Michael Pete Hookson from "Lionbridge" The more you look at this mail, the more flags it
has:
Samuel Murray Apr 2
Money matters Wondering if this information real: rates charged by ProZ members. @Ron [quote]ronsmith wrote: That's the "average". ...
Of course, if the average is 0.09 to 0.12 and 80%
is charging 0.01 to 0.03, then the remaining 20%
must be charging of 0.41 to 0.48 a wor
Samuel Murray Apr 1
Money matters Wondering if this information real: rates charged by ProZ members. Reported rates on ProZ.com https://www.proz.com/employers/rates?source_lang=j
pn&target_lang=eng&disc_spec_id=170¤cy=usd&v
iew_old_rates=1&submit=Submit
Samuel Murray Apr 1
Money matters Anybody encountered such MTPE jobs? Internal fuzzies? [quote]Asset Orymbayev wrote: It is 800 new words
(MT applied) + about 400 words fuzzy
matches. They call it MTPE and want to pay 0.02
for 800 new words. But for 400 fuzzy match words<
Samuel Murray Mar 17
Office applications Word macro: paste plain text @Stepan [quote]Stepan Konev wrote: You can use this
option in MS
Word: [url=https://imgbb.com/][img]https://i.ibb.
co/GJTksM1/word-label-templates-clipboard-p.jpg[/i
mg][/url] [/quote] Does
Samuel Murray Feb 27
AI for translators and interpreters Remove all lines in language X Hello everyone I have a text file with lines of
text in English, but unfortunately some of the
lines are in Afrikaans. I want to either remove
the Afrikaans lines or create a list of a
Samuel Murray Feb 27
Office applications Word macro: paste plain text Oh, got it Sub PasteSpecial() Selection.PasteSpecial
DataType:=wdPasteText End Sub
Samuel Murray Feb 26
Office applications Word macro: paste plain text Hello everyone My Word installation is wonky.
Some things don't work. For example, Shift+Ctrl+V
does nothing, even though it is supposed to be the
shortcut for the PasteFormat command.
Samuel Murray Feb 26
Office applications Word macro: change one highlight colour to something else @Dan Thanks for the tip. Samuel Murray Feb 24
Business issues Disclosing agency work in LinkedIn: what's the best practice? @Ricardo [quote]Ricardo Castaño wrote: Is it okay to
disclose all the agencies you work and have worked
with on your LinkedIn profile? [/quote] There is
a principle in translators' ethics that t
Samuel Murray Feb 24
Business issues Disclosing agency work in LinkedIn: what's the best practice? Not a CV [quote]Oriol VIP wrote: You can say which company
you've worked for in any CV, now and
always Otherwise, how are they going to get those
precious references and recommendation letters?
Samuel Murray Feb 24
Office applications Word macro: change one highlight colour to something else @Aurélien [quote]Aurélien ARPAZ wrote: This macro should
do what expected: ... [/quote] It does, thanks.
Unfortunately Word freezes at around 50 pages or
so, so it's nice for smaller documents,
Samuel Murray Feb 23
Office applications Word macro: change one highlight colour to something else @Hans [quote]Hans Lenting
wrote: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/229865
/changing-highlighted-text-to-a-different-color
[/quote] This one allows me to change all
highlights to green, b
Samuel Murray Feb 23
Office applications Word macro: change one highlight colour to something else Hello everyone I have a file with some text
highlighted yellow and some text highlighted red.
I want to change the red highlighted text to green
highlighted. Do you know of a macro th
Samuel Murray Feb 23
General technical issues How best to handle a bilingual Excel file? @Ali [quote]Ali Al awadi wrote: What is the best way
to handle this task with memoQ?
[/quote] Unfortunately MemoQ can only handle
multilingual Excel files that use columns, not
rows. So,
Samuel Murray Feb 19
Medical Scanned medical documents Handwritten? [quote]Giovanna Looney wrote: I have received 100
scanned pages, all medical documents.
[/quote] Wit lots of handwritten portions, right?
You need to be an expert expert in that field t
Samuel Murray Feb 17
Translators Associations NAATI TRANSLATION TEST Auto-complete [quote]Yi Cao wrote: However, after the reform,
NAATI has adopted computer based translation test.
As a result, NAATI does not require candidate to
write down each character and NAATI jus
Samuel Murray Feb 17
Money matters Rates with LSPs Markup [quote]Clément Marquet wrote: To understand the
price clients pay, what is the average mark-up of
LSPs? [/quote] Various percentages have been
mentioned or guessed at or revealed by peo
Samuel Murray Feb 16
Being independent Does it make sense to learn German to live in the U.S.? @Yuksel [quote]yuksel824gma wrote: Does it make sense to
learn German to live in the U.S.? [/quote] Do you
mean that you want to learn German so that you can
emigrate to the United States? Or d
Samuel Murray Feb 15
Site forums Does the CAT tool you use have an influence on getting response from LSPs? @Clément [quote]Clément Marquet wrote: To make it short,
if a project manager sees you are using Trados ...
do you have more chances to get an answer and jobs
than if you write OmegaT on your CV?
Samuel Murray Feb 14
Translation in Spain / La traducción en España Help with Catalan pronunciation @Angie [quote]Angie Garbarino wrote: Perhaps i can read
it for you in a WhatsApp message?[/quote] PB sent
:-)
Samuel Murray Feb 12
Translation in Spain / La traducción en España Help with Catalan pronunciation @Angie [quote]Angie Garbarino wrote: Can I see the
written text?[/quote] The link found by Maria is
the good one. [quote]The Y is pronounced like
the 2 ee in beef...[/quote] That is what I<
Samuel Murray Feb 12
Translation in Spain / La traducción en España Help with Catalan pronunciation Hello everyone I sing in a choir and we have a
Catalan song, and I'm trying to get to correct
pronunciation. I used the website Narakeet and
converted the text using two different voic
Samuel Murray Feb 12
Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing 12 000 words a day @Peter [quote]Peter Motte wrote: Some potential client,
hererafter called the PC, asked me to do 10 000 to
12 000 words per day PEMT or the same amount for
similar jobs. [/quote] It depends on
Samuel Murray Feb 10
ProZ.com: Translator Coop ProZ.com Premium membership: what is it and what does it include? @Irina [quote]IrinaN wrote: No, personally I am not
interested in any membership, I simply got curious
but this door being slammed shut in our faces is
... let's say a bit rude and totally sense
Samuel Murray Feb 9
Money matters Agency word count less than actual word count Agencies [quote]Justin Watkins wrote: I'm not sure what to
do - I don't want to cut ties with the agency
because they are a good source of work, but I
don't want a part of the translation I do for
Samuel Murray Feb 9
Literature / Poetry Help: How to improve as a litterary translator ? Write, write, write [quote]Quentin NEVEN wrote: I would like to
include literary translations in the services I
provide. [/quote] I think only established
writers can be good lit[t]erary translators. It
Samuel Murray Feb 6
ProZ.com membership Proz.com is offering a new ‘AI-based translation tool’ with its Premium package? What is it exactly? @Michael [quote]Michael Beijer wrote: I just stumbled
across this
page: https://go.proz.com/premium where I
read: "New premium monthly
option..."[/quote] It's a new super ultra
platinu
Samuel Murray Feb 5
Trados support Different tags... is it a problem? @Hans [quote]Hans Lenting wrote: Are there any errors
reported when you press F8? [/quote] Yup... and
the scroll bar tab can't get any smaller.
Samuel Murray Jan 31
Trados support Different tags... is it a problem? Hello everyone I'm not a frequent user of
Trados, and I was asked to review/proofread a
translation. I've noticed that the tags are
different in source and target. In fact, the
ta
Samuel Murray Jan 31
CAT Tools Technical Help Wordbee -- how to confirm segments Indeed [quote]Zea_Mays wrote: GIYF[/quote] Indeed. I
found this
page: https://wordbee.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/W
BT/pages/712819/Shortcuts but it didn't seem to
contain a shortcut for co
Samuel Murray Jan 26
CAT Tools Technical Help Wordbee -- how to confirm segments Hello Does anyone know how to confirm a segment
in Wordbee? I'm talking about segments with a
machine translation in them, where the translation
doesn't change. Thanks Samuel
Samuel Murray Jan 26


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