Search results: (43 matches) Forum | Topic | Title | Text | Poster | Time | Trados support | GroupShare has anyone tried it? | Overpriced | [quote]Scriptor wrote:
We are also curious about GroupShare. But it looks as if no one has tried it, or at least no one willing to admit it here. Also could find no independent reviews | Erik Matson | Jun 18, 2013 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you accept requests for urgent projects? | "Urgent Projects" | "Urgent Projects"?? Is there any other kind? ;) | Erik Matson | May 27, 2013 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you think social networks work for translators? | LinkedIn | Hi Julian-
I totally agree with you -
[quote]As Mary says, social networks - as their name implies - are for hanging out with the crowd or "socializing" and not for getting work. | Erik Matson | Feb 20, 2013 | Poll Discussion | Poll: When you tell someone who's not in the business that you're a translator, how do they react? | "Not sexy" - LOL | LOL@Julian!!
[quote]Julian Holmes wrote:
I have learnt that telling people at parties that you're a technical translator is not sexy at all and will not get you a babe on each arm. S | Erik Matson | Nov 11, 2012 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Did you grow up in a bilingual household? | Bilingual household for me, "trilingual" for my son. | I'm born in Norway, my mother is Norwegian, and my father is British. He quickly learned to speak and understand Norwegian, but when I was two years old we moved to California and I stayed | Erik Matson | Jul 20, 2012 | Translation news | Linguists capture final days of dying language | Thanks | Thanks for this interesting article! :D | Erik Matson | Jul 13, 2012 | Poll Discussion | Poll: After not translating for some time, do you ever forget your translation style? | Always translating | Same here
[quote]Jose Arnoldo Rodriguez-Carrington wrote:
[quote]neilmac wrote:
Sorry, am not familiar with the notion of "not translating for some time". The longest I ever s | Erik Matson | Jun 28, 2012 | Translation news | Google takes a stand for endangered languages | Excellent | Good story by Romina, great initiative by Google! Thanks! | Erik Matson | Jun 25, 2012 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Would you prefer to live in your source language or target language country? | Target | USA vs. Norway ... after almost 20 years in the United States, I've had enough and choose Norway.
[Edited at 2012-06-25 15:35 GMT] | Erik Matson | Jun 25, 2012 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Have you ever worked on a translation project that made you smile? | Of course | [quote]Mary Worby wrote:
If your work never makes you smile, you're in the wrong job! [/quote]
...my thoughts EXACTLY!! :) | Erik Matson | Jun 16, 2012 | Poll Discussion | Poll: With which file format do you most prefer to work? | TTX | I can accept and work with any and all formats (thanks, SDL), however I primarily specialize in technical translations, and prefer to work with TTX.
There is a very good reason why this | Erik Matson | Jun 5, 2012 | Poll Discussion | Poll: How many days off do you take per year for vacations? | > 30 | Work hard, play hard!
I usually try to avoid Norwegian winters altogether. Thanks to the professional freedom of being a freelancer, I decide WHEN and WHERE I work. I usually spend a | Erik Matson | May 15, 2012 | Poll Discussion | Poll: What percent of your available work time is booked? | 110% | The demand for Norwegian translations doesn't ever seem to diminish. I accept enough jobs to fill all my designated working hours, and then some...
I need to turn down enough projects | Erik Matson | May 14, 2012 | Poll Discussion | Poll: What is the largest number of words you have ever translated in one day? | Too many zeroes? | [quote]Hipyan Nopri wrote:
Working on a local translation order all day long starting from 5:00 am until 5:00 pm for US$0.0000680605 per word.
It is my first day of going profess | Erik Matson | Apr 29, 2012 | Poll Discussion | Poll: How did you choose your field(s) of expertise? | Answer: Many of the above... | Multiple specialties, based on all of the following:
Previous career
Education in field
Hobbies/interests
To meet the demands of clients
Because it pays well | Erik Matson | Apr 25, 2012 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Which PDF converter do you prefer? | Nitro PDF PRO with OCR | [quote]dasein_wm wrote:
I have used some of the applications listed in the poll responses in the past with varying levels of quality and satisfaction. Now I just use my PDF program to | Erik Matson | Feb 24, 2012 | Trados support | Google Translator not working in Studio | Looking forward to your fix | [quote]Patrick Porter wrote:
I hope to submit a version supporting both Studio 2011 and 2009, as well as a fix for supporting Norwegian, some time next week.
[Edited at 2011-12 | Erik Matson | Dec 4, 2011 | Scams | SCAM warning: David Baker Secret Shopper® | Time to close this? | [quote]Alejandro Cavalitto wrote:
Hello,
Thanks everyone for using the forum to raise awareness about scams. I see that ProZ.com profiles are involved in this particular scam. Si | Erik Matson | Dec 1, 2011 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Which of these will you invest in over the next 12 months? | All of the above | Over the course of a year I will most certainly spend money in all mentioned categories, starting with renewal of my Proz.com membership. | Erik Matson | Nov 28, 2011 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you think clients consider age an important parameter when assigning a project to a translator? | No, don't think so. | [quote]Mary Worby wrote:
I think a lot of the time a client or project manager would not be aware of a translator's age. I have, though, had a couple of projects recently where I've sug | Erik Matson | Sep 1, 2011 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you also teach? | No, but I'd like to | I answered "No, but I'd like to" because I haven't done any serious teaching on a long-term basis.
Hover, I've done some informal teaching when it comes to helping people get started as | Erik Matson | Aug 31, 2011 | Poll Discussion | Poll: To you, what's most important in life? | Family | I can't recall ever selecting a multiple choice answer so quickly before. This was an easy question to answer: Family!
Since family is my top priority, work/career, health, money, etc. | Erik Matson | Aug 7, 2011 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Moneybookers or PayPal? | PayPal for any SMALL (less than 100 USD) amount | PayPal is so expensive it is ridiculous. I will only accept it for very small jobs, for clients who I don't work for regularly. A 50 dollar deposit here and there is fine, and turns out | Erik Matson | Sep 25, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: What time do you normally finish your working day? (your local time) | Nocturnal freelancer | [quote]Gillian Searl wrote:
And since I start before most people are awake
I'm finished before most people... [/quote]
And since I start after most people have gone to sleep, I too | Erik Matson | Aug 6, 2010 | Translation news | Attackers abuse Facebook's translation application | leveraged | [quote]philgoddard wrote:
I've just worked out what this word means, as in "The attack leveraged the power of crowdsourcing" . It means "used". [/quote]
:o | Erik Matson | Aug 1, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Can you type without watching the keyboard? | Perfect touch-typing skills | [quote]Tina Colquhoun wrote:
Does anyone even vet these polls? Spelling?
Hardly a great advertisement for language specialists... :( [/quote]
Perhaps the most valuable skill I to | Erik Matson | Jul 8, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Have you ever suffered from "burnout"? | Yes | Packed up my office (computer) and went to Thailand where I took a month off, after which I went back to business working from there. The low cost of living and the natural beauty of the p | Erik Matson | Jul 4, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you have a yet to be fulfilled professional dream? | ProZ was my dream come true. | I realized many of my business dreams just three days after becoming a full member of this wonderful website: being my own boss, running my own business from my computer, being free to | Erik Matson | Jun 28, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: By how much has the use of CAT tools increased your translation productivity? | More than 50% | I am shocked to see how many "translators" don't have/use CAT-tools. Must be "hobby translators"! ;)
I was very reluctant to spend hundreds of dollars on my first Trados license, but it | Erik Matson | Jun 21, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: What is the one recommendation you would make for increasing translator productivity? | Specialize and CAT-tools | Specializing is absolutely vital.
But for productivity, choosing the right CAT-tool (or other software) for the job is the most important thing. Learn all about the various features of | Erik Matson | Jun 16, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you refuse jobs just because you don't feel like doing them? | YES | Often, almost every day.
Thanks to proz.com, I have the luxry of doing just that - pick and choose what I work on, and for who. Of course, for steady, long-term clients I am much more r | Erik Matson | Jun 9, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: What percentage of your clients are international clients (outside your country of residence)? | 100% | I made it a habit to not take on domestic clients for various reasons, but largely for tax reasons (VAT). Also, one of the things I enjoy most about being a freelance translator is the glo | Erik Matson | Jun 7, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you find text reading software useful for your work in any way? | Good news is that such software has become QUITE good | [quote]ricardonhorta wrote:
This sounds a bit like turning gasoline into water.
I'm sure it can be useful in certain situations, but a software that could **accurately** convert spok | Erik Matson | Jun 6, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you find text reading software useful for your work in any way? | NO | [quote]Patricia Rosas wrote:
I used to use Cepstral voices (which are wonderful!) and a tool to "read aloud" in XP (don't recall now what it was exactly), but Microsoft removed it in Wo | Erik Matson | Jun 5, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: When you are doing research for a translation/ term, do you get side-tracked? | I'm with the 56%...sometimes | But excellent question...I liked this poll! | Erik Matson | May 28, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Is the global crisis hitting you harder this year? | Thankfully, not at all | While the recession has not affected my business much at all, it was noticeable this time last year (for about three months - June, July and August, 2009).
I am happy to report that thi | Erik Matson | May 26, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: How often do you outsource work to other translators? | Never | I selected "Never" as an answer because this is the option that most closely describes my history of outsourcing. However, I wish "almost never" had been an option, because this is the cas | Erik Matson | Mar 22, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you employ the services of an accountant/financial advisor? | I would like to | This is definitely something I have been considering, and am in need of more and more for every word I translate, and every Euro I earn.
Nice poll by the way! | Erik Matson | Mar 10, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you think the social prestige of translators is high? | No | To answer the question, no. To elaborate, neither high nor low. I feel that this poll had a poor choice of multiple choice answer options because they are ambiguous.
I don't know why, | Erik Matson | Mar 9, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: How many new clients have you worked for so far in the first quarter of 2010? | 7 new clients. | [quote]Henry D wrote:
[quote]Tomás Cano Binder, CT wrote:
I am wondering about the reasoning of the poll. What is the meaning behind the poll and what answer is "good" or "bad"? | Erik Matson | Mar 9, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Which kind of dictionaries do you prefer to use? | INDEED!! | [quote]diana bb wrote:
[quote]Philippe Etienne wrote:
The dictionary I prefer is the one that answers my query.
The packaging is secondary.
Philippe [/quote]
All said.
| Erik Matson | Mar 4, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: Which kind of dictionaries do you prefer to use? | All of the above | What kind of dictionaries do I prefer to use?
- Well, for translating, I usually prefer bilingual ones. However, occasionally I use a monolingual one just to find definitions or sy | Erik Matson | Mar 4, 2010 | Poll Discussion | Poll: What role have original version films, TV or music played for you in learning languages? | www.proz.com/polls/8558 comments | It is great that youths these learn English from music, television, internet and the likes (if it weren't for hip-hop, I'd be speaking to my wife only in Thai), but I totally agree with An | Erik Matson | Feb 7, 2010 | Translation industry discussion forumsOpen discussion on topics related to translation, interpreting and localization CafeTran Espresso | You've never met a CAT tool this clever!
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