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Quick poll: what languages do you translate to/from and in what specialties?
Anke, Anne Wosnitza, Maitani and Thierry Destinobles liked this
I'll start. I translate Spanish > English and specialize in science (mostly biology).
- Shannon Jiménez
I translate from English to Chinese. I specialize in website localization. :)
- Jianjun Zhang
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I translate between these languages : Persian <> English and I specialize in Project management texts, philosophy and literature. :D I'm a graduate student of Translation Studies
- Selma
I translate from Spanish to French (and French to Spanish) with finance/ecomomics especiality.
- Jean-Charles
English > Hindi, mainly localization of websites and e-commerce applications.
- Vinay | विनय
I translate Greek <> English, French>English, French>Greek, Italian >Greek and specialize in legal and social science texts.
- Katerina
English > Italian normally, but I could also do Spanish > Italian - Only videogames
- Andrea Santambrogio
I'm currently in a different line of work. But when I translated, it was English > Hebrew, and mostly SF
- Didi Chanoch
Bump so we can learn about new members :)
- Shannon Jiménez
Russian <->English <->German Great feed. Thank you for asking the question, very often one needs a person knowing "not English" language. Will add the link to favourites.
- Maria Podolyak
English -> Japanese in IT & T and occasionally medical.
- Ryoko Omachi
English to Chinese and mostly IT translation. Nice to meet you here Jianjun.
- Dallas Cao
English/German into French
- Thierry Destinobles
Hi, just found the room :) I translate en/es/fr>it (mainly en>it though), mostly medicine and pharmacology.
- Alliandre (la Ippe)
I translate from English and Spanish to German - IT (hardware, software), automotive engineering, renewable energies and civil engineering.
- Anne Wosnitza
Same for me as for Anne: I translate from English and Spanish to German as well, but my specialities are Travel and Tourism, Pets and Fishkeeping, IT (hard- and software, systems) and anything related to Internet and Virtual Worlds. Nice to meet you all :-)
- Anke
English to French, mainly environment, bodybuilding, fitness, marketing
- Celine Graciet
English to Turkish
- Murat Bişkin
English to Turkish turkish to english -french to turkish turkish to french- english to french-french to english
- Dilara TAN
Wow, My PA Jia Li @carrie_young just received another scholarship from Cal Poly for MBA study in the fall. CONGRATS!http://twitpic.com/4lczn
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Congratulations @carrie_young
- Jianjun Zhang
FriendFeed帮助中心 - https://friendfeed.com/about...
I'm sorry to say that FriendFeed's simplified Chinese translation sounds less than professional. :( Not sure if other languages of Friendfeed are better off.
- Jianjun Zhang
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Google Translation Center, a New Human Translations Service in the Making - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
pestwave, Alliandre (la Ippe), Vinay | विनय and 2 other people liked this
"Google is working on a new service called Google Translation Center. Just a short while ago, we noticed that “center” had been added to Google’s robots.txt file, and now co-editor Tony Ruscoe discovered the link to the working frontpage... though logging in fails right now. According to the Google explanations on the frontpage and their product overview page, we can see this is meant to be a translation service which offers both volunteers and professional translators... and I suppose at least the professionals will want to get paid. In that regards, the service is in the field of sites like Click2Translate.com (a service by the company which Tony works for, incidentally, and which I’m often using for some of my sites)."
- Shannon Jiménez
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What do you guys think about Google offering this service?
- Shannon Jiménez
I think this is another piece of evidence that the translation industry is changing. Professional translations are only to be used in ever narrower fields where high quality and accuracy are absolutely necessary. Clients with more flexible quality requirements would probably take advantage of free or low-cost solutions by part-time translators or volunteers. However, this kind of service will also fill the market with poor translations, especially online...
- Jianjun Zhang
There is also an idea of so called human human flesh translation engine, represented by yeeyan, where a sloppy piece of translation could be improved by editing work from numerous readers afterwards. Does this engine post a threat too?
- Dallas Cao
Photo of N97 next to iPhone: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Langley Zhu, Tyson Key, Alistair (alpinefolk) and 7 other people liked this
Looks very promising. Now we only need some cool apps for it ;) I think that's one of the major advantages with iPhone. There aren't many apps for Symbian around.
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
from twhirl
i think there are PLENTY of good symbian apps around. the interface isn't as great for them, but you can pretty much find a program for anything you'd want to do. pedometer a la fitbit, geocaching your runs, twitter clients, push email, flash lite 3 to play video in browser, irc, etc..
- henry
I don't think there is enough choice of quality apps for symbian, and as Henry says the interface is often poor. The lack of a central store does make app discovery very difficult as well.
- Graeme Shaw
Looks pretty good but not revolutionary and, as ever, until there is real world usage we won't know the small but very important things
- yanwoo
agreed matthew. but then i'd choose a lot over the iphone. i can't stand its restrictions..symbian blows it out of the water in terms of openness.
- henry
Is it me or is this really not a good presentation/delivery? The device warrants better.
- yanwoo
just the fact that we are all here, we are pretty big geeks. i think the majority of us would give up a little interface for more features and potential.
- henry
Unfortunately it's not even remotely available in China, even not listed in upcoming models. :(
- Jianjun Zhang
Aw man, the N96 was launched just 3 months ago and I just got it. I can't help feeling screwed now. I swear this will be the last Nokia I own.
- Carolyn Chan
+1 henry
- Tyson Key
Web 2.0 entrepreneurs need a reality check...
- Jianjun Zhang
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Google 2001 - http://www.google.com/search2...
Karen Mohler, Ladybug Heather, Jianjun Zhang and 2 other people liked this
That's when my English learning e-zine was online and active - Barry's Meiw.com. Unfortunately I no longer own that domain and the eZine stopped publication after one year. I just tried "meiw.com" as keyword and found four relevant entries. Looking back, I'm still feeling proud of the 3000 subscriber ezine. :)
- Jianjun Zhang
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Hao Yun's "Beijing Beijing" (郝云《北京 北京》) is one of my new favorite songs.
郝云 - Hao Yun - 好运 :)
- Jianjun Zhang
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More Geeks Using Chrome than IE - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Shey, Jamaican of FF, Peter, Svartling and 10 other people liked this
haven't used IE in years... do any geeks use IE?
- Susan Beebe
For me, IE is still a necessary evil in case some naughty sites (in China) don't know how to code for other browsers (seriously speaking).
- Jianjun Zhang
from twhirl
I-who?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I just switched to IE8b2 from Firefox... and if I'm not geek, I don't know who is.
- Jemm
A GALLERY OF 35 ANTI-U.S. CHINESE POLITICAL CARTOONS (circa 1958-1960) - http://www.ep.tc/chinese...
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Great collection. Love it very much. Would be great to provide some context or detailed captions.
- Jianjun Zhang
A GALLERY OF 35 ANTI-U.S. CHINESE POLITICAL CARTOONS (circa 1958-1960) - http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo...
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Great collection. Love it very much. Would be great to provide some context or detailed captions.
- Jianjun Zhang
Translation - Language - Culture: Poor spellers, lousy teachers - http://www.translationlanguage...
Unfortunately the site is blocked in China, even during the Olympics!
- Jianjun Zhang
On one hand, I absolutely hate bad spelling and multiple spelling errors in a document automatically (though perhaps unfairly) make me consider the writer less intelligent and well-informed. However, on the other hand, the English language has a long history of altering its spelling, usually favoring clarity over tradition. What most surprised me about the article, though, was that the...
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- Shannon Jiménez
Lip Gloss In 12 Seconds Part 3 - http://12seconds.tv/channel...
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"Gloss like an Egyptian...."
- Omar Gallaga
Audio is a bit futzy.
- l0ckergn0me
I can't figure out the logic behind 12 seconds! It's irritating.
- Jianjun Zhang
I bet you like just fine without the makeup.
- Josh Haley
jianjun, the logic behind 12 seconds...is there is none right now. :o) just having fun with the format. i.e. goofin' off. :D
- Christine Lu
FOXNews.com - 'Dead' Man Awakens Before Autopsy, Shocks Doctors by Asking for Glass of Water - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - http://www.foxnews.com/story...
An Indian man who was knocked unconscious during a stampede of thousands of religious pilgrims on a steep Himalayan mountain path woke up as doctors were preparing to perform his autopsy, the Times of India reported.
- Jianjun Zhang
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Nice site using Chinese and English with traditional Chinese herbal medicine pictures and puzzles.
- Jianjun Zhang
Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences - http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo...
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Nice site using Chinese and English with traditional Chinese herbal medicine pictures and puzzles.
- Jianjun Zhang
High Oil Prices Giving Iraq Up to $79 Billion in Surplus Cash - Who's the sucker now? - http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
From the beginning of the conflict, American officials assured taxpayers and the world that Iraq would use oil money to pay for reconstruction, but that has not happened. Several senior Iraqi officials were either traveling on Tuesday or declined to comment, saying they were not familiar with the report.
- Mark Forman
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"Joseph A. Christoff, director of the international affairs and trade team at the accountability office, said it was fair to say that a shortage of qualified officials in Iraq had diminished the capacity of central ministries to write contracts and carry out rebuilding." - and there's the crux. Bush and Cheney aren't quite ready to yank out our federally funded contractors. Raise your hand if you still wonder why.
- jcunwired
The American government always did stupid things like this. They thought they could woo over leaders they helped installed but they always failed.
- Jianjun Zhang
JZ Either that or you're naive to believe that what is happening is an accident...
- Mark Forman
Google Translation Center, a New Human Translations Service in the Making - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
This was posted in "Translators and Translation" room. I'd like to re-share it.
- Jianjun Zhang
amazing. my desktop is one of these now.
- Jia Liu
Yup very nice photos indeed!! :)
- Jianjun Zhang
Can anyone remember the last internet ad you clicked? How many can you remember clicking in the past five days?
Mike Reynolds, Benjamin Kohler, Richard Binhammer and 7 other people liked this
Zero. Zero for the last five months and probably close to zero for the last 5 years
- shelisrael1
On purpose or by accident. I work in web advertising and I don't think I've ever purposefully clicked on an ad. I've done so by accident when there are those ones that flip up half the screen and you can't click on anything else on the page but the ad.
- James Ferguson
I clicked on @garyvee does that count?
- Robert Scoble
People actually click that stuff? I avoid it like the plague and assume it's a virus.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I absolutely never click on internet ads.
- Troy Forster
from twhirl
I obligatory click to support people :)
- Mona Nomura
Probably a few weeks ago when I wanted to check out if that's something I was searching for. But it was not.
- Jianjun Zhang
from twhirl
I rarely click on Internet ads. Can't remember the last one I clicked I know that it had something to do with jazz. None in the past five days.
- James
I like saving cool ones for animation ideas
- videopixil
There are ads on the Internet. *turns off Adblock Plus* oh, I see what you mean.
- Morton Fox
I was trying find out who from a 1800 number calls me like 5 times a day, so I googled the number. A paid result for YellowPages.com saying, "Reverse Number Lookup" got my click. The landing page failed, though, it just took me to the home site, not the reverse lookup page.
- James O'Malley
from twhirl
Me, never. But ask a different demographic and you'll get a very different answer. Slashdot users are famous for not clicking on ads, but less tech saturated markets seem to click a lot more than we do.
- Brad Collins
from twhirl
I don't think I have clicked on one in a long time. I know that back in the 90's I've probably clicked on pr0n ads. :)
- Jay Cruz
haven't clicked an ad in ages unless it's one of those annoying fill the page ads that won't go away
- maryn
with ad blockers it becomes easy to ignore ads but then are we helping or hurting businesses
- Fuad Arshad
I've clicked on the Google ads on occasion when the ads that came up in a search looked like they fit what I was looking for
- John Ahrens
I've clicked on conference, professional education or cause-related ads - nothing else that i can think of... @hackmer
- Michael Hackmer
I've occasionally clicked on the sponsored links on the right side of Google search pages... but that is it.
- Mark Philpot
Yesterday may be around five times, sometimes ads are more relevant than search results
- sirishkumar
I click on ads if to support websites I like sometimes and the sponsored ads on Google.
- Michael Zitek
twice, but it was an error
- americanm
Do you mean display ads? Or would you include search?
- Oldengrey (Jay)
Zero.
- Sean McBride
Zero in the last 5 days, zero in the last month
- Gregory R
If nobody is clicking ads, who is supporting Google? Why does Microsoft want Yahoo!
- Michael Markman
No ad clicking in past 5 days, but probably 20-30 in past year related to big purchases I've been planning.
- Mike Reynolds
You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss - http://www.paulgraham.com/boss...
Meryn Stol, Ginger Makela Riker, Iulian Dogariu and 21 other people liked this
" A job at a big company is like high fructose corn syrup: it has some of the qualities of things you're meant to like, but is disastrously lacking in others." I feel the same about prizes various companies award to a "lucky" customer - "live 3 years for free" etc. I guess you'll be pretty bummed after those 3 years expire. Beyond processed food and prize metaphors, modern society constantly sells us and blinds us with the idea of this "easy life" as the dream we should all strive for.
- Nenad Nikolic
The same is true for other professionals such as a translator. For years I have been thinking about if it's better off to form a company for this or just do my job as an individual - one-man company. I think this article makes things clear. Large translation/localization companies may not be the right choice.
- Jianjun Zhang
from twhirl
big fan of your articles, though would not completely agree with them all the time, but love the idealistic pov.
- Krishna Gade
Everyone should read this fine piece of article! I'm not sure about some of the metaphors, yet I totally agree with your point. Yet, for various reasons, humans tend to live/work/stay in huge numbers... I am also very curious about your ideas/thoughts on working in small teams and creating harmony... Care to give some clues ?
- Alemsah Ozturk
It rings very very true, I just left yahoo after 5 years and joined a small startup ( fav.or.it), and i have probably been stretched more in the last month than i was in the whole last year at yahoo, and despite the hardships, i am loving every second of it. I have found areas of my brain starting to turn on again now I'm free from the corporate stupor. However one rift point i am finding is the vast difference in culture between the two, i have to tread carefully to make sure I dont bring the worst in.
- Tim Hawkins
Mac Genius?
Mac Genie. heh heh
- Jianjun Zhang
from twhirl
I am on FriendFeed already, but neglecting it.
Twhirl is much easier to use with FF. Personally I don't like to log on to FF each time to see what's going on. :)
- Jianjun Zhang
from twhirl
It's just another tool for me. I've got used to Twitter/Twhirl
- Nadine Touzet
Twhirl it's only a Twitter desktop client... FF is a powerful tool for social and networking media
- Javier Valiño
Funny Street Show 搞笑 - http://v.youku.com/v_show...
Supper funny skeleton performer. I can't believe this show really happened in the street.
- Jianjun Zhang
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jjprojects says Oh yay, my Karma went down today. Couldn't give a fuck to be honest. I don't need that sort of pressure to be active on a network. - http://www.plurk.com/p/c7jl
Shey, Jamaican of FF and ben rogers liked this
agreed dropped plurk too - not much value for me, assumed I'm the wrong demo ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Can Karma really go down?! OK. I'll let it appreciate/depreciate freely. heh
- Jianjun Zhang
from twhirl
Yes, it goes down if you don't use it for even a day. The system drive users to be more active.
- jjprojects
There are some long threads developing there which is good, it's kind of like IRC in a way, and kind of like the commenting here, but usually a lot less serious.
- jjprojects
sounds like the initial comments around plurk were the rights ones
- ben rogers
from twhirl
Which initial comments are you talking about there?
- jjprojects
Karma tends to tempt folks to curry favor as opposed to engage in open and honest discussion.
- Dewald Pretorius
just some stuff I saw come across friendfeed - nothing I could really pin down
- ben rogers
from twhirl
my first thought was bad thing did you do....then it clicked in plurk.
- clarke thomas
Yep, the feed from Plurk doesn't say it's from there, annoying.
- jjprojects
Morris Goldstein and Nicholas Lardy suggest China should immediately revalue the yuan by 15%, then allow it to appreciate by 6-8%/year for next 6-8 years. - I don't think China will ever do this as it'll definitely hurt the country's large foreign reserve. - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps...
@TDJ There seems to be an onslaught of V***-related spam today. Father's Day??? :)
Nancy Babyak liked this
What is a V***-related spam?
- Jianjun Zhang
from twhirl
Great! we really needed a room like this...thanks for the invite
Bill Turrentine liked this
Hope more translators join the room soon.
- Jianjun Zhang
from twhirl
I've invited a few, but not everyone is ready to jump into friendfeed. As I posted below, feel free to invite anyone else you know who might be interested.
- Shannon Jiménez
I will Shannon. Thanks.
- Jianjun Zhang
err...something tells me this person ran the ad through google translate without getting someone to proofread after. http://snurl.com/2ezh4
Google translate is popular among people taking 'shortcuts' for translation. And proofreading such translations could actually cost higher than translation. :)
- Jianjun Zhang
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Damn you twitter, I want to Share! Mother dies saving baby and sms's her final message to her child [sob] - http://http://snipr.com/2bzfr The heartbreaking earthquake [www_danwei_org]
Jianjun Zhang liked this
Very heart-rending. What a loving and caring mum and we are helpless.
- Jianjun Zhang
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