Comments on: Using Spreadsheets For Translation http://nadinetouzet.com/blog/2008/05/22/using-spreadsheets-for-translation/ keeping it up in the translation/interpretation sphere Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:25:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: admin http://nadinetouzet.com/blog/2008/05/22/using-spreadsheets-for-translation/comment-page-1/#comment-609 admin Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:55:21 +0000 http://nadinetouzet.com/blog/?p=295#comment-609 I appreciate your comment, and I agree with you completely. But I'm not in the market for fast automated translation. So I leave it to agencies to face their responsibilities in terms of quality control. I appreciate your comment, and I agree with you completely. But I’m not in the market for fast automated translation. So I leave it to agencies to face their responsibilities in terms of quality control.

]]> By: Sonja http://nadinetouzet.com/blog/2008/05/22/using-spreadsheets-for-translation/comment-page-1/#comment-572 Sonja Thu, 22 May 2008 13:12:31 +0000 http://nadinetouzet.com/blog/?p=295#comment-572 I think that this behaviour (not knowing how to use a software product in the right way) applies to all kinds of file formats. I very often get Word documents that are messy, over and over, because clients do not apply styles but change the formatting of single words or sentences. And I am not going to start my rant about presentations. Boy, those can be messy! What you mention about breaking the flow of ideas while working in spreadsheets, I can only add that this is very often the case for translation memory (or CAT) tools too. I think that Trados and others are highly overrated, and very often they can be a source of mistakes and mistranslations. I wouldn't therefore blame it all on spreadsheets or other software applications that weren't designed for a particular purpose. Sonjas last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/medical-translator/csmp/~3/294185848/" rel="nofollow">How To Keep Clients</a> I think that this behaviour (not knowing how to use a software product in the right way) applies to all kinds of file formats. I very often get Word documents that are messy, over and over, because clients do not apply styles but change the formatting of single words or sentences. And I am not going to start my rant about presentations. Boy, those can be messy!

What you mention about breaking the flow of ideas while working in spreadsheets, I can only add that this is very often the case for translation memory (or CAT) tools too. I think that Trados and others are highly overrated, and very often they can be a source of mistakes and mistranslations. I wouldn’t therefore blame it all on spreadsheets or other software applications that weren’t designed for a particular purpose.

Sonjas last blog post..How To Keep Clients

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