Off topic: Trados Studio made me laugh! Thread poster: JaneD
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JaneD 
Sweden
Local time: 10:01
Member (2009)
Swedish to English
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I often translate product manuals, so I have a lot of translation units relating to warranties.
Today, however, I'm translating an archaeology document.
A particular original segment is: "Il est vieux de 10 000 ans." - "It's 10,000 years old."
Studio, in its rather endearing attempts to help, has concatenated the 10,000 years with a previously translated segment and come up with: "The warranty period is 10 000 years."
Now that's confi... See more I often translate product manuals, so I have a lot of translation units relating to warranties.
Today, however, I'm translating an archaeology document.
A particular original segment is: "Il est vieux de 10 000 ans." - "It's 10,000 years old."
Studio, in its rather endearing attempts to help, has concatenated the 10,000 years with a previously translated segment and come up with: "The warranty period is 10 000 years."
Now that's confidence in your product! ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Similar to Google Search | Nov 29, 2010 |
By random combining of words, we get interesting search results. I am always laughing at Google on this point: do not rely excessively on technology!
Soonthon Lupkitaro
| | | | Alison Sabedoria (X)
United Kingdom
French to English
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It must be so tempting to go with such suggestions at times. I sometimes enjoy (wickedly) thinking of the inappropriate translations I might have made...
| | | | | "Dentro de 100 años, todos calvos" | Nov 29, 2010 |
I.e. "In a hundred years, we'll all be bald". I mean that even if you used 10,000 years of warranty, who would respond to it in 100 years?
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David Wright
Austria
Local time: 10:01
German to English
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| If you really want a laugh | Nov 29, 2010 |
use a speech recognition program! Good for a giggle at least twice a day (Court of cassation this morning came out as court of castration). Brightens up my day no end!
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This happens with Babelfish.
I tried EN-PT:
"ACME uses the latest technology..."
... and got:
"O ACME usa a tecnologia a mais atrasada..." (in spite of 2 errors)
... which is the exact opposite!
"Atrasado" in PT actually means "late", such as arriving late to an appointment. It also means a clock running slow, i.e. backwards, as opposite to "adi... See more This happens with Babelfish.
I tried EN-PT:
"ACME uses the latest technology..."
... and got:
"O ACME usa a tecnologia a mais atrasada..." (in spite of 2 errors)
... which is the exact opposite!
"Atrasado" in PT actually means "late", such as arriving late to an appointment. It also means a clock running slow, i.e. backwards, as opposite to "adiantado" (= advanced) when it's running fast.
So, if I had said that "ACME uses the most advanced technology", Babelfish would have got it right:
"O ACME usa a tecnologia a mais avançada" (yet with the same 2 errors again) ▲ Collapse
| | | | NMR (X)
France
Local time: 10:01
French to Dutch
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| Not only Trados | Nov 29, 2010 |
Wordfast likes it too. I don't remember exactly, but when translating tourist websites I often had proposals of sentences such as:
Hotel room for 70 persons, € 2 a day.
How about false advertising?
| | | | JaneD
Sweden
Local time: 10:01
Member (2009)
Swedish to English
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TOPIC STARTER | That's a great rate! | Nov 29, 2010 |
NMR wrote:
Hotel room for 70 persons, € 2 a day.
The only thing is, I'm not sure I know of 69 other people I'd want to share a room with...
On second thoughts, maybe it's a translators-only discount - we should hold the next ProZ conference there!
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JH Trads
United States
Local time: 04:01
Member (2007)
English to French
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Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.) wrote:
By random combining of words, we get interesting search results. I am always laughing at Google on this point: do not rely excessively on technology!
Soonthon Lupkitaro
Indeed, it is probably better to rely on one's brains and use technology only when it is really useful !
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