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[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote:
Poll discussions have never appeared on my home page. I've always had to click through to "recent forum posts". No idea why
[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:
[quote]ibz wrote:
And they pop up everywhere 👀 [/quote]
The account may have been hacked. [/quote]
I really wanted to write a spoof ChatGPT post about
[quote]Cilian O'Tuama wrote:
Raw broccoli (frozen), with carrot, apple, banana, radishes, blueberries (frozen), fresh basil and ginger, and water.
What can be unhealthy about that?
[quote]Robert Rutledge wrote:
Hi Mark,
As a multilingual DTP specialist who is currently trying to wrap up a 20-language project, a few of the points you brought up are quite rel
[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:
Because a CV wouldn't mean a large amount?
Or because you think to smell a deliberate attempt to get it done pro bono? [/quote]
$50 or $100 for someone to trans
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
More and more clients are now applying a 30% discount on MTPE segments during an otherwise normal translation. Often, the MTPE discount is automatically appli
[quote]Paul Adie wrote:
About rates - you'll generally not hear much talk about them on here. I get the sense that translators say one thing but charge another. In my case, I started off
[quote]Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL wrote:
You have a duty towards the agency, not the final customer. [/quote]
If this translation could injure or kill people, I would say the transla
[quote]Paul Adie wrote:
Don't forget, you are “the most consistently satisfying partner I have ever had the pleasure of working with” according to your CV. Oh là là.
[quote]myko312 wrote:
I said, from what I know, there were no critical mistakes. But I haven't checked the translation thoroughly enough. [/quote]
Well, you really should be taking th
[quote]Peter Shortall wrote:
I'm interested to see what the impact of the new Certificate in Translation will be. In the blurb, the CIOL says it "meets the need for a working-level transl
[quote]Keith Jackson wrote:
In monetary terms, according to my accounting software, the income from the agency and company combined since 2013 amounts to 230,622.63 euro. Not counting the
[quote]Keith Jackson wrote:
I'm happy that I've got value for money with the CIoL. Since 2013, I've gained a few private individuals, one company, and one agency as customers on the back<
[quote]Paul Adie wrote:
I seem to have answered my own question - I'll most likely try both and see how it goes.
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If you've coped for 20 years without them, isn't it likely yo
[quote]Lucia Leszinsky wrote:
Naturally, we encourage everyone, members and non-members, to participe with entries, ratings and votes. However, it's members' investment that pays for
[quote]Matthias Brombach wrote:
...for your solidarity, which could be a reason to renew the subscription of this very service (just because I love you all so much!*) Back to the topic:
I was going to say the language of love, which as a former gigolo I obviously mastered long ago, but I worried it wouldn’t qualify as insightful enough to boost member numbers so instead
[quote]Lucia Leszinsky wrote:
In a few cases, where the ProZ.com member population does not appear to support competition in a given language pair, entry submission may be opened up to
[quote]Anne Maclennan wrote:
On the back of a hotel room door a fire safety notice began:
"En cas d'incendie gardez votre sang-froid..."
translated as:
"In case of fir
[quote]MagnusRubensson wrote:
(I'm not going to plug the music here on the forum - it's probably against the rules - but if anyone wants to hear it... feel free to send a message.)[/quo
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We're 40+ people on the team and as in any company, we work in different departments. [/quote]
And you don't speak to each other?
There is a very serious issue here that h
[quote]Tanya Quintieri wrote:
Chris, I want to clarify that Pastey is a tool designed to assist, not replace, human translators. We always emphasize the importance of checking for AI
[quote]Baran Keki wrote:
[quote]Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:
And if I remember correctly, before being Ice Scream, wasn’t he a look alike “George Clooney”? [/quote]
Tha
[quote]Kay Denney wrote:
Baran, you're talking to the artist formerly known as Ice Scream here, literally nothing of what he writes is to be taken seriously. His goal here is to provide l
Plenty of small boats you could take across the channel, Baran… Maybe bring a life jacket rather than a hard hat. Hi viz might be a bad idea, but a pair of scissors would be handy once y
[quote]Baran Keki wrote:
Did you notice that the dude who broke the 100k record 2 years ago had a total of 4 or 5 forum posts? He buckled down, didn't complain about AI, kept schtum and h
[quote]Denis Fesik wrote:
I'm not sure if everyone here sees what I see in my forum feed, but my current feed is chock-full of threads about techy stuff (tools, bots & Co.) and no longer
[quote]Baran Keki wrote:
But nothing can convince me that it's a "good and efficient business mentality" to assign jobs randomly on a first-come-first-served basis. As an agency, you
I would put it down to some people's email downloading more frequently.
I can't see any reason for bots to be involved, unless they are just making up jobs to make people feel more and<
[quote]Baran Keki wrote:
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote:
I don't believe that clients monitor forum posts.
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That explains why you've earned a grand total of £67 from clien
I paid for membership last year for the first time in a decade, pretty much for a bet. After all, it's only £100, less than a morning's work, how could you not earn that back in a yea
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
You don't often post in the forums, so paying $150 to skip the waiting period before your posts appear wouldn't seem worth it. [/quote]
Verified non-paying m
[quote]Rita Translator wrote:
generating fictional quotes is also how human-written press releases often work.[/quote]
I imagine Peter knows this. His point was more that we as trans
[quote]P.L.F. Persio wrote:
My favourite symphony is Beethoven's 7th, the fourth movement always put me in an excellent mood, especially in this wonderfully energetic, outstanding, and jo
[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:
And then there was this literally live saving piece (it is used for getting the rhythm for heart massage) with funny video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbh
[quote]Kay Denney wrote:
I have found, when trying to explain something to a client, that it helps if I concede one point.
[/quote]
Obviously I would never make a concession as su
[quote]Christine Andersen wrote:
In the end it´s the client´s text. They will mess it up if they want to, so don´t lose sleep over it!
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They will indeed, and I don't lo
[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:
[quote]Thomas T. Frost wrote:
Does Proz prefer that we report it to an EU data protection authority instead, leading to potential fines? [/quote]
I think t
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