Poll: How often do you spend +30 min. researching a single obscure term or phrase? Trådens avsändare: ProZ.com Staff
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It hasn’t been very often of late. First of all, because work has been scarce. Secondly, after more than 40 years in the profession, I don’t very often come across terms that are completely unfamiliar to me, apart from neologisms which occasionally require some research. I must say that I like to spend as much time as necessary until I’m convinced I’ve found the correct term…
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Zea_Mays 
Italien
Local time: 06:12
Engelska till Tyska
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I've been very active in trying to answer KudoZ questions in the past, and it could happen that I had to do very thorough research in order to prove my contributions. This has not changed but I'm no longer that active in this site section - and questions have been decreasing too.
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| The correct answer is… | Aug 18 |
… as often as is necessary. Which shouldn’t be very often.
With AI, it’s easier to get some initial suggestions that you then corroborate, making this a less frequent occurrence.
(See, I’m not a total dinosaur.)
But you get to a stage as a translator when the only terms that really trouble you are the ones that have been used incorrectly by the author…
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Daryo
Local time: 05:12
Serbiska till Engelska
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at least not because I would need it myself for a translation.
As for 'obscure' ... once one single word very commonly used in Serbian send me into an hours long wading through paper dictionaries (yes it was that long ago).
OK that one was an extreme case, but a good illustration that a term does not need to be 'obscure' - even some very 'common' term can unexpectedly turn into a very tough nut to crack.
Some past Kudoz questions happened to be real... See more at least not because I would need it myself for a translation.
As for 'obscure' ... once one single word very commonly used in Serbian send me into an hours long wading through paper dictionaries (yes it was that long ago).
OK that one was an extreme case, but a good illustration that a term does not need to be 'obscure' - even some very 'common' term can unexpectedly turn into a very tough nut to crack.
Some past Kudoz questions happened to be really interesting - a proper puzzle hard to solve. Lately there is only a trickle of Kudoz questions, and not much interesting - too easy to decipher so no '+30 min. researching' there. ▲ Collapse
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