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Do you use Trados for literary texts, too?
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The Misha
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By all means do as you see fit Mar 25, 2015

Joakim Braun wrote:


I don't deny that for technical jobs where consistency is paramount CAT is useful. But even in a good, clean, stable, responsive, bug-free UI (I have yet to see one!) the segmentation would break my flow and inhibit the necessary recasting of the text, making for dull, slow, translatorish output.

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You are entitled to your own preferences and opinions as much as I am to mine. You can use a hammer to crack your nuts, or, I don't know, a crystal ashtray if you have one. They both work fine, and it is totally up to you which one to use. I just find that hammer a tad more convenient for the purpose, is all. Cheers.


 
Peter Linton (X)
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Segmentation again Mar 25, 2015

Joakim Braun wrote:
. . . segmentation would break my flow and inhibit the necessary recasting of the text, making for dull, slow, translatorish output.


It might break your flow, but it doesn't break mine. On the contrary.

Recently I translated a book using a CAT tool (and speech recognition). The customer declared himself 'very happy' with my translation So clearly it is possible to get good results from CAT. Reminds me of that saying about workmen and their tools.


 
Triston Goodwin
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Yes Mar 25, 2015

I just really like the interface.

 
DZiW (X)
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Depends Mar 25, 2015

Although many translators state CATs are for rigid and strict 'consistency' only, so it's no good for fiction, I do find that as far as CATs manage to provide SEVERAL variants quite easily, then it will do nicely.

Shortly, I also prefer using CATs for fiction because it enables me to keep tracking, backup, and chose the best suggestion. The only occasional drawback for me is infamous 'segmentation issue', because in different languages it's sometimes better to split or merge transla
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Although many translators state CATs are for rigid and strict 'consistency' only, so it's no good for fiction, I do find that as far as CATs manage to provide SEVERAL variants quite easily, then it will do nicely.

Shortly, I also prefer using CATs for fiction because it enables me to keep tracking, backup, and chose the best suggestion. The only occasional drawback for me is infamous 'segmentation issue', because in different languages it's sometimes better to split or merge translated (localized) sentences.

IMO.
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Erik Freitag
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Segmentation Mar 26, 2015

Peter Linton wrote:

... workmen and their tools ...



and:

The Misha wrote:

Funny how it seems that most of those who are saying a firm "no" are probably those who have never used any CAT tools or never bothered to learn how to use them properly.



Indeed. Reading statements from opponents of using CAT tools for literary work who say that the segmentation breaks their flow makes me wonder whether they have heard of paragraph based segmentation (as opposed to sentence based segmentation).

But then again, I don't do fiction, so what do I know.


 
Peter Linton (X)
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Paragraph based segmentation Mar 27, 2015

For the record, the CAT tool I use supports sentence based segmentation and paragraph based segmentation. I wonder how many opponents of CAT tools are aware of that,

 
Erik Freitag
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Exactly Mar 27, 2015

Peter Linton wrote:

For the record, the CAT tool I use supports sentence based segmentation and paragraph based segmentation. I wonder how many opponents of CAT tools are aware of that


My sentiments exactly.


 
brg (X)
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I use it Mar 27, 2015

For everything I do. Even literary texts.
It does not hinder my workflow or creativity. But I learnt to translate before, and to handle CATs later.
It helps greatly the quality check, especially in controlling proper names, text length and so on.

I do not use paragraph segmentation but always read over my translation after cleaning up and then link sentences together or break them up. The main objective here is that if one has to read a sentence two times, then it is not
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For everything I do. Even literary texts.
It does not hinder my workflow or creativity. But I learnt to translate before, and to handle CATs later.
It helps greatly the quality check, especially in controlling proper names, text length and so on.

I do not use paragraph segmentation but always read over my translation after cleaning up and then link sentences together or break them up. The main objective here is that if one has to read a sentence two times, then it is not clear and should be modified.

By the way, several agencies ask me if I am "able to translate without a tool". As if all translators now work with CATs and if this word-for-word or sentence-for-sentence copying process (I admit, there is something dull in it) is the prerequisite for translation, and not the translation skills. As if a beginner with, say, 2 years of experience, who can use a CAT tool and produce good texts, are supposed to produce good literature. The danger is here: that the use of the CAT-tool places you in the position of somone who always does dull texts.
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Guillermo Osorio
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It depends. Nov 3, 2015

CAT's are always useful, but if we are talking about literary texts we need to know that anything can happen.

My experience has taught me that translating poems using Trados is a little bit complicated. When I was a student I got a real job in a publishing house and I had to translate 'Blood on the Dining Room Floor: a Murder Mistery' by Gertrude Stein. It was a total chaos because Stein's style is full of repetitions, lack of orthography and musicality.

Nevertheless, u
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CAT's are always useful, but if we are talking about literary texts we need to know that anything can happen.

My experience has taught me that translating poems using Trados is a little bit complicated. When I was a student I got a real job in a publishing house and I had to translate 'Blood on the Dining Room Floor: a Murder Mistery' by Gertrude Stein. It was a total chaos because Stein's style is full of repetitions, lack of orthography and musicality.

Nevertheless, using Trados when translating a 'normal book' (like the ones you find on Babelcube.com) has been very useful.

Thus, if your source text does not have a song, poem or playwords you will not have problems using Trados.
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Caroline Eira (X)
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It depends a lot! Nov 3, 2015

"CAT's are always useful, but if we are talking about literary texts we need to know that anything can happen"

I agree with Guillermo!
I think it depends a lot on the author and their style. And we should keep in mind that translating a book or a poem or whatever it comes to Literature/ Poetry, there's too many things to take into account and a CatTool might not cover all these little and meaning details... That's my opinion!...
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"CAT's are always useful, but if we are talking about literary texts we need to know that anything can happen"

I agree with Guillermo!
I think it depends a lot on the author and their style. And we should keep in mind that translating a book or a poem or whatever it comes to Literature/ Poetry, there's too many things to take into account and a CatTool might not cover all these little and meaning details... That's my opinion!
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