Poll: How often do you spend +30 min. researching a single obscure term or phrase?
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ProZ.com Staff
ProZ.com Staff
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Aug 17

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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
포르투갈
Local time: 05:48
회원(2007)
영어에서 포르투갈어
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N/A Aug 17

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…

Josephine Cassar
Christine Andersen
Maria Laura Curzi
 
Zea_Mays
Zea_Mays  Identity Verified
이탈리아
Local time: 06:48
영어에서 독일어
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often for KudoZ Aug 18

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.

Géraldine Fourrier
Maria Laura Curzi
 
The Shredder
The Shredder
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…

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Christine Andersen
Maria Laura Curzi
Daryo
 
Daryo
Daryo
Local time: 05:48
세르비아어에서 영어
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Not recently Aug 18

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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