DeFrEnT Christopher Köbel
DeFrEnTck@hessen.social
#xl8 #rant on RWS #Trados Studio vs #Wordpress #WPML

🤬 When will RWS (formerly SDL) Trados and Wordpress 's WPML finally get their sh*t together and make translation of WPML's dialect less of a PITA instead of keeping to point towards the respective other, like they've done for years?

Now, for reasons unknown, Trados' "Multilingual XML" file filter, which was supposed to improve things, escapes the entire CDATA'ed HTML upon export. 🤦‍♂️
I'm almost considering once again…

2 days ago
DeFrEnT Christopher Köbel
DeFrEnTck@hessen.social

TIL "they" as a singular pronoun is *way* older than I thought: ~ 1375 AD.

Source: scu.edu/media/offices/provost/

September 14, 2023
DeFrEnT Christopher Köbel
DeFrEnTck@hessen.social

🤔 Now, is the fact that next to "statuses", "status" is a correct plural of "status" in ...

September 12, 2023
DeFrEnT Christopher Köbel
DeFrEnTck@hessen.social

Liebe -Menschen, bitte schickt eurem Übersetzer kein PDF. Unsere CAT-Tools verwandeln das für die in ein meist layout-zerschossenes DOCX, das ihr per Copy/Paste nach ID zurücktragen dürft.

Exportiert stattdessen ein .IDML (ID's XML-Austauschformat), das ihr nach der Übersetzung nahtlos nach ID zurückimportieren könnt, dann wird die Welt für uns alle einfacher. Danke.

September 11, 2023
DeFrEnT Christopher Köbel
DeFrEnTck@hessen.social

🇬🇧 to 🇩🇪 , where the source text is all too obviously a 🇫🇷 to 🇬🇧 translation.
Working also with 🇫🇷, I happen to know that puts adjectives in plural if they refer to a series of 2+ nouns, *even if* they are all in singular.
But "Critical risk control measures … and prevention" is *not* the same as "Critical risk control and prevention measures".

TL;DR: 15 years into the job, chain translations are still a bad idea (as is leaving machine translation unsupervised).

September 11, 2023
DeFrEnT Christopher Köbel
DeFrEnTck@hessen.social

I am sure there exists a special place in hell for people translating 🇫🇷 "alcool, drogues, médicaments" as 🇬🇧 "alcohol, drugs, drugs"

September 08, 2023
DeFrEnT Christopher Köbel
DeFrEnTck@hessen.social

😂 A AND AND jab

September 05, 2023
DeFrEnT Christopher Köbel
DeFrEnTck@hessen.social

So! Rechner aus, Büro zu, auf fahren. 🪓🏃‍♂️ 🛡️

September 01, 2023
DeFrEnT Christopher Köbel
DeFrEnTck@hessen.social
August 25, 2023
DeFrEnT Christopher Köbel
DeFrEnTck@hessen.social

The @Wired magazine has made a well-rounded overview of what an interpretation AI can and cannot do at this point:
youtube.com/watch?v=pwOxlpGYJA
Most of this applies to machine translation, too, because in fact, is a speech-to-text -> -> text-to-speech toolchain.

They are tools, good for some use cases, bad for others.

August 23, 2023