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Art of Translation and Interpreting

Translator resources (Maria Karra)
Found a good glossary or other resource? Need one? Share links

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The best online training you have ever been in...

Site of Greek 'journal officiel' etc.

Plustools Problem with Word 2007

SDL Phrasefinder Installation Problem

Discussion group for translators

6:18am
Anderson Wang

Translation Theory and Practice (Monika Coulson)
Share your approaches, learn from others

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Translating the French present tense by an English preterit in historical texts

What does your back-translation look like?

Off: What does your back-translation look like (take II)

GERMAN and ENGLISH mother speakers: The Real Relevance of Translation Theory in Working Practice

Approach to backtranslation - dispute with an agency

Sep 5
Nico van de Water

Literature / Poetry (NancyLynn)
What makes a translation correct is something the literary world has struggled with for ages. Continue the struggle

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Translating punctuation in novels, such as speech marks: help with the conventions.

Sep 4
Marie-Hélène Hayles

Interpreting (Magda Dziadosz)
For discussing topics of interest to interpreters (conference, court, simultaneous, consecutive, telephone, whisper)

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Script for calling a direct client/agency

Going for a placement evaluation tomorrow/Some questions

4:53pm
Alexandra Goldburt

Subtitling (Maya Gorgoshidze)
A forum for the discussion of subtitling.

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Does anybody know of a standard style guide on hyphen in subtitles?

10:03am
kmtext

Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing (Özden Arıkan, Fabio Descalzi)
A forum for the discussion of proofreading, editing and reviewing

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Text quality is awfully poor, but the client only wants to pay for proofreading - What to do ?

Need a good proofreading tool for Latin

Verifying terminology during proofreading/editing

The quality initiative of a major LSP/zookeeper

7:29pm
Viktoria Gimbe

Translation Project / Vendor Management (Parrot, Maya Gorgoshidze)
Discuss project management and vendor management here.

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Sticker shock: does it happen to agencies?

Aug 31
Richard Bartholomew

Business of Translation and Interpreting

Money matters (Ralf Lemster)
Discuss financial matters of interest to language professionals

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The effect of inflation in the UK and translation rates

Advise on UK rates for agencies (1000 words)

A reason to be worried?

Collection agencies in the Uk

Why on earth would anyone respond to an ad like this?

6:43pm
Ronnie McKee

Getting established (Wolfgang Jörissen)
Getting started? Growing an existing business?

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Beginner needs advice: do I need further studies to get started?

Combining translation with a full-time job : anyone had experience of it?

Migrating to Australia, NAATI and the IELTS

How to specialize in a certain area

The magic formula of address to an agency

7:30pm
Fabio Descalzi

Being independent (Mihai Badea)
Independent professionals enjoy special benefits and face unique challenges. Compare notes

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Was I wrong ?

1:00pm
Morgane17

Business issues (Evert DELOOF-SYS)
Running a business requires skills in a variety of areas--sales, accounting, legal matters, etc. Swap know-how here

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Advice needed on merchant accounts

Your TMs - how do you dispose of them?

ProZ resources for professional development and better business operations

translation agencies

agency not willing to pay

6:45pm
Astrid Elke Johnson

Translation agencies
Restricted to translation agency owners and managers

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Translators Associations (Cristiana Coblis)
News, activities and discussions about the translators' associations

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Language studies

Linguistics (Marcus Malabad)
Discuss the science behind language

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Off: confusion over "a" and "an"

Off: few or less ? Tesco's answer

Emphatic adverbs in Spanish

Sep 5
Carole Paquis

Professional development (Parrot)
Announce scholarships, fellowships, grants-in-aid, or get help in preparing projects and applications

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Iol DipTrans

2:20pm
carol so

Teaching and Learning Languages (Katalin Horvath McClure, Said Kaljanac a.k.a. SARAJ)
Share techniques, trends, issues and experiences related to teaching or learning languages

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Multilingual families (Monika Coulson, Berni Armstrong)
Speaking more than one language at home, at school or in the social environment

5:26pm
Daniela Vitancourt

Ancient languages (Said Kaljanac a.k.a. SARAJ)
Discussions about Latin, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, or post using them

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Artificial languages (Krys Williams)
Discussions about Esperanto, Klingon and other artificial languages

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StudentZ Forum (Anne Diamantidis)
If you are a student user or member, make yourself at home in your forum! Here you will meet StudentZ from all over the world, make new friends, and share experiences on our first steps into translation world.

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Student Users: Students in Proz.com

Aug 28
Anne Diamantidis

StudentZ Pub (Anne Diamantidis)
This is a student member only forum created to discuss issues related to features and tools for students in ProZ.com.

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Linguistic diversity (Fabio Descalzi, Parrot)
Forum on language endangerment, survival, revitalization and promotion

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Events and Awards

Language Industry Events & Announcements (Fabiana Papastefani-Pezzoni)
Announce language-related events, announcements, local powwows, calls for papers, etc.

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Celebrating International Translation Day

ATA 49th Annual Conference in Orlando

Sep 4
RominaZ

Honors / Citations (Mats Wiman)
Has a colleague won an award, done an interesting translation, or otherwise elevated the profession? Honor them here

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