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Liebe Übersetzys,
die branchenweite BDÜ-Honorar- und Gehaltsumfrage für 2025 ist online!
Eure Teilnahme schafft eine starke Datenbasis für angemessene Vergütungen in unserer Branche – anonym und in nur ca. 15min. Daraus wird dann der BDÜ Honorarspiegel, samt Kapitel "Berechnung auskömmlicher Honorare".Egal ob BDÜ-Mitglied oder nicht, bis zum 20.09.2026 könnt ihr teilnehmen:
* Selbstständige: https://secure.bdue.de/honorarumfrage.php
* Angestellte: https://secure.bdue.de/gehaltsumfrage.php -
Liebe Übersetzys,
die branchenweite BDÜ-Honorar- und Gehaltsumfrage für 2025 ist online!
Eure Teilnahme schafft eine starke Datenbasis für angemessene Vergütungen in unserer Branche – anonym und in nur ca. 15min. Daraus wird dann der BDÜ Honorarspiegel, samt Kapitel "Berechnung auskömmlicher Honorare".Egal ob BDÜ-Mitglied oder nicht, bis zum 20.09.2026 könnt ihr teilnehmen:
* Selbstständige: https://secure.bdue.de/honorarumfrage.php
* Angestellte: https://secure.bdue.de/gehaltsumfrage.php -
Liebe Übersetzys,
die branchenweite BDÜ-Honorar- und Gehaltsumfrage für 2025 ist online!
Eure Teilnahme schafft eine starke Datenbasis für angemessene Vergütungen in unserer Branche – anonym und in nur ca. 15min. Daraus wird dann der BDÜ Honorarspiegel, samt Kapitel "Berechnung auskömmlicher Honorare".Egal ob BDÜ-Mitglied oder nicht, bis zum 20.09.2026 könnt ihr teilnehmen:
* Selbstständige: https://secure.bdue.de/honorarumfrage.php
* Angestellte: https://secure.bdue.de/gehaltsumfrage.php -
Liebe Übersetzys,
die branchenweite BDÜ-Honorar- und Gehaltsumfrage für 2025 ist online!
Eure Teilnahme schafft eine starke Datenbasis für angemessene Vergütungen in unserer Branche – anonym und in nur ca. 15min. Daraus wird dann der BDÜ Honorarspiegel, samt Kapitel "Berechnung auskömmlicher Honorare".Egal ob BDÜ-Mitglied oder nicht, bis zum 20.09.2026 könnt ihr teilnehmen:
* Selbstständige: https://secure.bdue.de/honorarumfrage.php
* Angestellte: https://secure.bdue.de/gehaltsumfrage.php -
Liebe Übersetzys,
die branchenweite BDÜ-Honorar- und Gehaltsumfrage für 2025 ist online!
Eure Teilnahme schafft eine starke Datenbasis für angemessene Vergütungen in unserer Branche – anonym und in nur ca. 15min. Daraus wird dann der BDÜ Honorarspiegel, samt Kapitel "Berechnung auskömmlicher Honorare".Egal ob BDÜ-Mitglied oder nicht, bis zum 20.09.2026 könnt ihr teilnehmen:
* Selbstständige: https://secure.bdue.de/honorarumfrage.php
* Angestellte: https://secure.bdue.de/gehaltsumfrage.php -
So, machine translator, I have this alphabetical list of contributors in French. Some of them have official English names, some don’t. I need you to go through them, determine which have English names, replace FR with EN where appropriate, and put the new list in alphabetical order. Oh, and if there are any errors in the French names, I want you to correct them. You can do that, right?
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Machine translator? Hello?
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So, machine translator, I have this alphabetical list of contributors in French. Some of them have official English names, some don’t. I need you to go through them, determine which have English names, replace FR with EN where appropriate, and put the new list in alphabetical order. Oh, and if there are any errors in the French names, I want you to correct them. You can do that, right?
🦗🦗🦗
Machine translator? Hello?
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So, machine translator, I have this alphabetical list of contributors in French. Some of them have official English names, some don’t. I need you to go through them, determine which have English names, replace FR with EN where appropriate, and put the new list in alphabetical order. Oh, and if there are any errors in the French names, I want you to correct them. You can do that, right?
🦗🦗🦗
Machine translator? Hello?
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So, machine translator, I have this alphabetical list of contributors in French. Some of them have official English names, some don’t. I need you to go through them, determine which have English names, replace FR with EN where appropriate, and put the new list in alphabetical order. Oh, and if there are any errors in the French names, I want you to correct them. You can do that, right?
🦗🦗🦗
Machine translator? Hello?
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Question for my fellow freelance translators: Do you do post-editing or do you refuse on principle? If you do take post-editing work, do you charge a higher hourly rate (than, say, for revising layout proofs of your own work)?
I've managed to avoid post-editing thus far, but a long-time client just asked me to proof a document they "translated internally." Not quite sure what to do going forward.
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Question for my fellow freelance translators: Do you do post-editing or do you refuse on principle? If you do take post-editing work, do you charge a higher hourly rate (than, say, for revising layout proofs of your own work)?
I've managed to avoid post-editing thus far, but a long-time client just asked me to proof a document they "translated internally." Not quite sure what to do going forward.
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Question for my fellow freelance translators: Do you do post-editing or do you refuse on principle? If you do take post-editing work, do you charge a higher hourly rate (than, say, for revising layout proofs of your own work)?
I've managed to avoid post-editing thus far, but a long-time client just asked me to proof a document they "translated internally." Not quite sure what to do going forward.
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Question for my fellow freelance translators: Do you do post-editing or do you refuse on principle? If you do take post-editing work, do you charge a higher hourly rate (than, say, for revising layout proofs of your own work)?
I've managed to avoid post-editing thus far, but a long-time client just asked me to proof a document they "translated internally." Not quite sure what to do going forward.
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Just to give you an idea of the kind of BS this PM is shovelling at me: I'm translating the subtitles for a video. In this case, there will be parallel FR and EN subtitles. At one point, I translated “toute sorte” as “all sorts" and the PM wants me to use a singular idiom "so that people don't think there's a mistake in the French subtitles.”
Please, God, on the off chance you exist, take me now.
(OK, I'll stop now.)
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Just to give you an idea of the kind of BS this PM is shovelling at me: I'm translating the subtitles for a video. In this case, there will be parallel FR and EN subtitles. At one point, I translated “toute sorte” as “all sorts" and the PM wants me to use a singular idiom "so that people don't think there's a mistake in the French subtitles.”
Please, God, on the off chance you exist, take me now.
(OK, I'll stop now.)
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Just to give you an idea of the kind of BS this PM is shovelling at me: I'm translating the subtitles for a video. In this case, there will be parallel FR and EN subtitles. At one point, I translated “toute sorte” as “all sorts" and the PM wants me to use a singular idiom "so that people don't think there's a mistake in the French subtitles.”
Please, God, on the off chance you exist, take me now.
(OK, I'll stop now.)
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Just to give you an idea of the kind of BS this PM is shovelling at me: I'm translating the subtitles for a video. In this case, there will be parallel FR and EN subtitles. At one point, I translated “toute sorte” as “all sorts" and the PM wants me to use a singular idiom "so that people don't think there's a mistake in the French subtitles.”
Please, God, on the off chance you exist, take me now.
(OK, I'll stop now.)
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Just to give you an idea of the kind of BS this PM is shovelling at me: I'm translating the subtitles for a video. In this case, there will be parallel FR and EN subtitles. At one point, I translated “toute sorte” as “all sorts" and the PM wants me to use a singular idiom "so that people don't think there's a mistake in the French subtitles.”
Please, God, on the off chance you exist, take me now.
(OK, I'll stop now.)
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❗ #selfpromotion ❗
🇬🇧🇸🇰 Hit me if you need me.
#xl8 #xl8freelancer #translation #preklady #TranslationServices
#transcreation #localisation #legal #business #marketing #PressReleases #social and more -
❗ #selfpromotion ❗
🇬🇧🇸🇰 Hit me if you need me.
#xl8 #xl8freelancer #translation #preklady #TranslationServices
#transcreation #localisation #legal #business #marketing #PressReleases #social and more -
❗ #selfpromotion ❗
🇬🇧🇸🇰 Hit me if you need me.
#xl8 #xl8freelancer #translation #preklady #TranslationServices
#transcreation #localisation #legal #business #marketing #PressReleases #social and more -
❗ #selfpromotion ❗
🇬🇧🇸🇰 Hit me if you need me.
#xl8 #xl8freelancer #translation #preklady #TranslationServices
#transcreation #localisation #legal #business #marketing #PressReleases #social and more -
Dear client,
If you email me on Wednesday afternoon asking if I can translate a two-page document for EOD Thursday, and I reply that, yes, it's possible, as long as I get the document by noon, have the courtesy to confirm that you will or will not be booking my Thursday afternoon. I know we're all busy, but geez, how much effort is it to fire off an email.
Grr.
Sorry, peeps. Thanks for indulging my rant.
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Dear client,
If you email me on Wednesday afternoon asking if I can translate a two-page document for EOD Thursday, and I reply that, yes, it's possible, as long as I get the document by noon, have the courtesy to confirm that you will or will not be booking my Thursday afternoon. I know we're all busy, but geez, how much effort is it to fire off an email.
Grr.
Sorry, peeps. Thanks for indulging my rant.
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Dear client,
If you email me on Wednesday afternoon asking if I can translate a two-page document for EOD Thursday, and I reply that, yes, it's possible, as long as I get the document by noon, have the courtesy to confirm that you will or will not be booking my Thursday afternoon. I know we're all busy, but geez, how much effort is it to fire off an email.
Grr.
Sorry, peeps. Thanks for indulging my rant.
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Dear client,
If you email me on Wednesday afternoon asking if I can translate a two-page document for EOD Thursday, and I reply that, yes, it's possible, as long as I get the document by noon, have the courtesy to confirm that you will or will not be booking my Thursday afternoon. I know we're all busy, but geez, how much effort is it to fire off an email.
Grr.
Sorry, peeps. Thanks for indulging my rant.
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I was wondering why I was feeling uneasy about this document – no red squiggly lines anywhere. It was eerie.
Turns out, the client sent this MS Word document with with spelling and grammar set to “Hide Spelling Errors/Hide Grammar Errors."
Seriously, there should be a special place in hell….
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I was wondering why I was feeling uneasy about this document – no red squiggly lines anywhere. It was eerie.
Turns out, the client sent this MS Word document with with spelling and grammar set to “Hide Spelling Errors/Hide Grammar Errors."
Seriously, there should be a special place in hell….
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I was wondering why I was feeling uneasy about this document – no red squiggly lines anywhere. It was eerie.
Turns out, the client sent this MS Word document with with spelling and grammar set to “Hide Spelling Errors/Hide Grammar Errors."
Seriously, there should be a special place in hell….
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I was wondering why I was feeling uneasy about this document – no red squiggly lines anywhere. It was eerie.
Turns out, the client sent this MS Word document with with spelling and grammar set to “Hide Spelling Errors/Hide Grammar Errors."
Seriously, there should be a special place in hell….
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I was wondering why I was feeling uneasy about this document – no red squiggly lines anywhere. It was eerie.
Turns out, the client sent this MS Word document with with spelling and grammar set to “Hide Spelling Errors/Hide Grammar Errors."
Seriously, there should be a special place in hell….
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Personal and household services workers, my ass.
I guess they were called aides and servants in the past.#NowTranslating #PHS #DomesticStaff #xl8 #translation #xl8freelancer
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Personal and household services workers, my ass.
I guess they were called aides and servants in the past.#NowTranslating #PHS #DomesticStaff #xl8 #translation #xl8freelancer
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Personal and household services workers, my ass.
I guess they were called aides and servants in the past.#NowTranslating #PHS #DomesticStaff #xl8 #translation #xl8freelancer
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Probably the only good thing about #PhraseTM will no longer be available after October 2024.
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Probably the only good thing about #PhraseTM will no longer be available after October 2024.
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Probably the only good thing about #PhraseTM will no longer be available after October 2024.
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"Job description:
A #translator in the livestock industry plays a crucial role in ensuring accurate #communication across #language barriers. They #translate #documents, #breeding, and #health, ensuring #terminology is precise."I'd like very much apply, but even though I'm good #AF, I got no clue how to translate breeding and health. Documents, I can manage.
#xl8 #translators #xl8or #xl8freelancer #translatorslife #translatorsunite #TranslatorHumor
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"Job description:
A #translator in the livestock industry plays a crucial role in ensuring accurate #communication across #language barriers. They #translate #documents, #breeding, and #health, ensuring #terminology is precise."I'd like very much apply, but even though I'm good #AF, I got no clue how to translate breeding and health. Documents, I can manage.
#xl8 #translators #xl8or #xl8freelancer #translatorslife #translatorsunite #TranslatorHumor
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"Job description:
A #translator in the livestock industry plays a crucial role in ensuring accurate #communication across #language barriers. They #translate #documents, #breeding, and #health, ensuring #terminology is precise."I'd like very much apply, but even though I'm good #AF, I got no clue how to translate breeding and health. Documents, I can manage.
#xl8 #translators #xl8or #xl8freelancer #translatorslife #translatorsunite #TranslatorHumor
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“We aim to help our customers and consumers save CO2 – for example by washing at lower temperatures or by switching to haircare products that do not need to be rinsed out and so do not require water to be heated up.“
If I get this right, my not rinsing out the shampoo will stop climate change and save the planet. Well done, #Henkel. Makes me wanna put a bullet through my head for translating that #PurposefulGrowth bullshit agenda of yours.
#ClimateChange #CorporateGreenwashing #co2emissions #CO2Emissionen #greenwashing #GlobalWarming #CarbonFootprint #CarbonEmissions #environment #sustainability #NowTranslating #AmTranslating #translating #translator #translation #xl8 #xl8or #xl8freelancer
Picture: Lucia Vergaglia/CC BY 3.0 IT DEED Attribution 3.0 Italy
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“We aim to help our customers and consumers save CO2 – for example by washing at lower temperatures or by switching to haircare products that do not need to be rinsed out and so do not require water to be heated up.“
If I get this right, my not rinsing out the shampoo will stop climate change and save the planet. Well done, #Henkel. Makes me wanna put a bullet through my head for translating that #PurposefulGrowth bullshit agenda of yours.
#ClimateChange #CorporateGreenwashing #co2emissions #CO2Emissionen #greenwashing #GlobalWarming #CarbonFootprint #CarbonEmissions #environment #sustainability #NowTranslating #AmTranslating #translating #translator #translation #xl8 #xl8or #xl8freelancer
Picture: Lucia Vergaglia/CC BY 3.0 IT DEED Attribution 3.0 Italy
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“We aim to help our customers and consumers save CO2 – for example by washing at lower temperatures or by switching to haircare products that do not need to be rinsed out and so do not require water to be heated up.“
If I get this right, my not rinsing out the shampoo will stop climate change and save the planet. Well done, #Henkel. Makes me wanna put a bullet through my head for translating that #PurposefulGrowth bullshit agenda of yours.
#ClimateChange #CorporateGreenwashing #co2emissions #CO2Emissionen #greenwashing #GlobalWarming #CarbonFootprint #CarbonEmissions #environment #sustainability #NowTranslating #AmTranslating #translating #translator #translation #xl8 #xl8or #xl8freelancer
Picture: Lucia Vergaglia/CC BY 3.0 IT DEED Attribution 3.0 Italy
