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MemoQ support | Crossed-out target segment | Hello, I'm working on MemoQ v.9.3 on a local project created by me and the first segment appears crossed out in red in the target part. It is like disabled. I can't work on it or insert | Al Zaid | Mar 29, 2022 | |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you usually turn your computer off at the end of the day? | Only between projects | If I have a project that takes several days, I never turn it off until it's finished and delivered. Saves me a lot of time and effort, because every time I sit a the computer, it's all | Al Zaid | Sep 19, 2017 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you type as fast in your source language as in your target language? | Pretty much the same | [quote]Noni Gilbert wrote:
You rarely have to type in an accent when writing in English, so I suppose typing them for Spanish is going to make my typing slower, but the difference is | Al Zaid | Jun 7, 2016 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: How many hours do you sleep per day? | Used to sleep <4 hours, now it's 7-8, sometimes 10-12!! | I had some situations during the past two years that caused me a great deal of stress, so my sleep time was affected. Sometimes I slept only for 2 hours or even not at all, even if all the | Al Zaid | Feb 18, 2016 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: How many hours do you sleep per day? | Per day is OK | [quote]Chris S wrote:
[quote]Mario Chavez wrote: [quote]Cetacea wrote: I sleep 7-8 hours a [b]night[/b]. Just sayin'... :grin: [/quote] Blame it on insufficient English study | Al Zaid | Feb 18, 2016 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Have you ever studied to improve your typing skills? | TyperShark | I've been using computers and keyboards since I was a child and I've always loved typing and hated writing by hand. In fact, my handwriting is almost illegible now that I do everything on | Al Zaid | Jan 13, 2016 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Would you say that you are a good translator? | Couldn't get any better... | I'm good looking, charming, fun and I have a kick-butt personality. I mean, what else can you ask from life? :grin: This is quite the peculiar poll... | Al Zaid | Dec 24, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Have you encountered any non-payment issues throughout the course of your career? | Exactly. Go quick and hard. | [quote]Chris S wrote:
If anyone is looking for advice here, go in early and go in hard. The people who shout the loudest are the ones who get heard. Do not accept their excuses. Do not | Al Zaid | Dec 2, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: How often do you translate into one or more of your source (non-native) languages? | More often than some would think | [quote]Mario Chavez wrote:
I translate into English certain technical texts by client request, and the client knows well that English is not my mother tongue. Some translators and academi | Al Zaid | Nov 23, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: How many days off do you generally take per week? | As many days as I can... | which fortunately aren't so many.
Normally I work Sunday to Friday and the occasional Saturday. Or I may work for 2-3 weeks straight if there's a project or a high work load that makes i | Al Zaid | Nov 9, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you accept post-editing machine translation projects? | I did, recently... | Normally, I wouldn't even think about it, but recently I received a request from a regular client to do an MT proofing job at an acceptable rate and with a promising volume. That being | Al Zaid | Nov 4, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you have formal education in your source language(s)? | Yep... | 5-year major in English language. | Al Zaid | Aug 10, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Have you worked on a translation that required no research (online searches, dictionaries, etc)? | Yep | I'm so familiar and immersed in my biggest direct client's work (translating and interpreting for them) that most days I can do the work with no research whatsoever. I already did a lot of | Al Zaid | Jul 30, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: After how many days without work do you start to become worried? | One week or 10 days... | ...is the set point for my "worry" trigger. I really appreciate having a couple of days without work, especial after some long translation project or a lengthy interpreting period. I don't | Al Zaid | Jul 24, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you request feedback on your services from your clients? | Sometimes to new ones... | Sometimes I ask new clients for feedback on some specific aspect of my translation, since preferences may vary from client to client, but other than that and the courtesy of "Do not he | Al Zaid | Jul 21, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Have you ever used the services of a debt collection agency? | NAH! | It hasn't come to that, but sometimes I'd like having a butt-kicking gang to claim money from lazy clients was legal :D | Al Zaid | Jul 13, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Is all the software you use in your native language? | Of course not | My native language is Spanish, and not all the SW I use is in Spanish. About 20% is in English. What kinda question is this anyway? | Al Zaid | Jun 28, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: How confident are you with your translation work? | From FAIRLY to TOTALLY | I'm very confident, but c'mon, NOBODY should be TOTALLY confident since the begining about his/her translation work. Even if you're very good and you know it, during the translating proces | Al Zaid | Jun 18, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you request that clients confirm receipt of your finished projects? | Most of the times I do | They always confirm, the same way I confirm receipt when they send me the source files to be translated, and the same way I confirm when I finally receive their payment, thanking them and< | Al Zaid | Jun 10, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you work with clients when you can't find much information regarding their reputation? | Of course it depends... | If after some research I come up with little information, I may accept the job if it's small or if the way of approaching me makes me inclined to take a leap of faith. This is a risky bus | Al Zaid | May 21, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Which is the most frequent reason why you turn down projects? | Sometimes more than one reason | Lately I've been receiving job offers for translating scanned PDFs (veeery dead), handwritten, with poor quality, at a rate which I could accept only if I had no other jobs AND the for | Al Zaid | May 19, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: How many areas do you specialize in? | Kinda like Anthony Baldwin... | I've done some construction work and worked at a refinery for a development project, so Engineering, Oil&Gas and Construction are kind of my strong suit, but if being an engineer counts as | Al Zaid | May 11, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you feel threatened by machine translation? | The threat is not MT itself... | ...but the way it is regarded by people outside the translation industry. I've even heard some translation college "professors" (people who don't actually translate for a living) heighten | Al Zaid | May 4, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you listen to music while translating? | I'm a melomaniac!!!!! | I ALWAYS listen to music while working, unless I'm interpreting, of course :) If there's a part that requires special concentration for the sake of creativity, I pause the music and re | Al Zaid | Mar 28, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you think professional translators require a specific translation qualification to be successful? | Ditto | [quote]Ian Jones wrote:
I have done quite a few courses on translation in the UK and in Spain and, to be quite honest, they have not helped me much at all. Maybe they weren't that effec | Al Zaid | Mar 23, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Have you ever suffered from repetitive strain injury as a result of working on a computer? | Yep | I got an RSI on my left wrist a couple of years ago, but I'm sure it's not due only to typing, which I do a lot, but also to playing the guitar. I'm playing a lot less now, since I have ve | Al Zaid | Mar 19, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you prefer working as a translator or an interpreter? | Translation | I offer both, but I must confess I am a better translator than interpreter, or at least I feel better translating. Interpreting makes me kill the routine and many times it helps me unders | Al Zaid | Mar 17, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you regularly work with more than one CAT tool? | Yep | I use Studio 2009 (for 95% of my work) and WF Classic for some small jobs. WF Classic saved my life recently when dealing with a very tight deadline. Studio 2009 started malfunctioning (it | Al Zaid | Mar 11, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Have you ever been asked to do back translation? | Too much work for nothing | [quote]Chris S wrote:
I cannot see how back-translation can ever be as good as having a couple of native translators check the original translation in the normal manner. It's a flawed | Al Zaid | Mar 10, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you stay up to date on translation industry news? | To some extent, yes. | If you try to read too much news, you surely won't get much work done. I try at least to keep up-to-date on who's who, new trends, CAT tools and other technologies, etc. | Al Zaid | Mar 6, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: What is the size of your working computer screen? | 2 screens: one 17" and the other 20" | When I'm at the office, I use a 20", 4:3 aspect ratio monitor and my laptop screen 10") as secondary. When I'm out and about, I use only the laptop screen, of course. | Al Zaid | Mar 5, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you use a smartphone for work-related tasks? | I'd be lost without it | Here, where internet connection is so fickle, my smartphone has saved my life several times. The mobile data rates are brutal, but it pays off by being reachable by clients 24/7. | Al Zaid | Feb 27, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: If a client was dissatisfied with your work, would you still charge the price agreed in advance? | Something "similar" happened to me recently | I had a very tight deadline for a medium-sized job (for a pretty nice rate), and at the last minute my CAT tool had a transient ischemic attack :( and didn't convert the target to MS Word, | Al Zaid | Feb 24, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you specialize in a certain field? | Duh!! | [quote]
Other than having indulging this silly question, I have a question of my own: Is this Dumb Poll Week by any chance? [/quote] It certainly must be. I'm sure 100% of translators< | Al Zaid | Feb 17, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you work while traveling? | Sometimes I do | If I'm on a tight or close-to-tight deadline, or if it's an interesting job, I work while travelling. Otherwise I just take the travelling time to read, listen to music or just do nothing | Al Zaid | Jan 23, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you manage your billing/payment issues alone or with the help of another person? | Bug them till they pay | [quote]Chris S wrote:
Payment reminders, on the other hand, still bring me out in a cold sweat. Any advice? [/quote] No other choice. Right now I'm struggling with a payment that shoul | Al Zaid | Jan 20, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: How many hours a day do you typically spend on the computer? | Who's counting...? | Sometimes I spend 6, sometimes 4, sometimes 8 and some others (halleluyah for large workloads!!) even 12 or 14, but the latter I do very exceptionally and only for one or two days; if I | Al Zaid | Jan 14, 2015 |
Trados support | Translating MS Word footnotes in Studio 2009 | Ta-da!! | It worked!!
I saved the file as .doc (which fortunately didn't affect the format or the content) and the footnotes appeared. No way to do it on .docx files. Thank you both, Michael and | Al Zaid | Jan 14, 2015 |
Trados support | Translating MS Word footnotes in Studio 2009 | I have a Word document with many footnotes which don't appear in Studio 2009. I haven't found any way for Studio to "see" them. I asked this same question some time ago and received no | Al Zaid | Jan 13, 2015 | |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you think a professional-looking profile photo helps in attracting clients? | HAHA!!! | [quote]Terry Richards wrote:
My photo would be more suitable for repelling cockroaches than attracting clients :) [/quote] That's a good one. | Al Zaid | Jan 6, 2015 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you think that rates are becoming a tougher issue than they were in the past? | tougher by the hour.... | The rates issue with agencies is getting harder to deal with, besides the late payments or non-payments. Even some agencies that used to be "reputable" are getting cheap and phoney. | Al Zaid | Dec 1, 2014 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Which resource do you consult first when you encounter a difficult term? | Mostly online search... | By this I mean Proz, IATE, Google itself is a great corpus (of course, always to be taken with a grain of salt). If it's technical stuff (very often it is) I look first in my own glossari | Al Zaid | Nov 28, 2014 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you use a tablet for your translation work? | Only for reading books | [quote]Mario Chavez wrote:
[quote]Melanie Nassar wrote: Even though I could, I never use them for regular reading; I prefer printed books, of which I have hundreds. [/quote] That's | Al Zaid | Nov 25, 2014 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: How long do you keep your clients' translations after delivery? | I have them all | For the past 7 years I've been working as a translator, I have kept ALL the translations. My biggest and most regular client's information is confidential, but I need to have it, until our | Al Zaid | Nov 21, 2014 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you do translations for free for friends and family? | Sure, why not... | For friends and family, no problem at all... I have a lot of good acquaintances and buddies, but friends as such... it's a rather short list, but let's stay on-topic. Of course, they don | Al Zaid | Nov 20, 2014 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: Have you ever rejected a project for ethical or moral reasons? | No | Not that I wouldn't reject a project for moral or ethical reasons. It's just that I haven't come across any project that goes against my moral or ethical principles. I hope it stays that w | Al Zaid | Nov 7, 2014 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: What style do you like to use when translating? | I try to keep the original style, but... | Sometimes the original's got no style at all, so I embelish, simplify, apply a style of my own. Specially when translating from Spanish. One of my clients is prone to write very "stylish" | Al Zaid | Nov 4, 2014 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: For me, the best thing about being a freelancer is: | Actually, in lack of a boss... | I have several. Every client is your boss in a certain way. Of course, they're not breathing on your neck all the time, but they kind of control your job. Some are pretty bossy ;) | Al Zaid | Oct 16, 2014 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: A client sends you negative feedback. You... | Define "negative" | The client may have something to say about one particular aspect of my translation. I've had some feedback, for instance, on the use of metric or imperial system for measurement units, or | Al Zaid | Oct 15, 2014 |
Poll Discussion | Poll: When working with an agency, have you ever contacted the end client directly? | ;) | [quote]Christine Andersen wrote:
It also helps to educate the client and make translators 'visible' as real people who think about their work... [/quote] Nothing to add. | Al Zaid | Oct 3, 2014 |
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