Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Language Abkhazian

It's ok for trying to get the gist of some text in a hurry but even 12 
years into being a translator, I find translation much faster than 
proofreading. Not sure why that is cognitively but I think because you 
have to keep jumping - first you read the target, then the source and 
then you fix the target but have to keep checking. The longer the 
sentence, the more you need to check and if it's a whole paragraph, you 
get really frustrated trying to match up the bits of sentence that go 
together. Whereas when I translate, I read the source, I punch in the 
translation, done. Sometimes you need to check or re-read the source if 
it was written by a developer on speed but on the whole, the number of 
strings you can translate without going back and forth is much higher.

So I don't think we'd save anything in translators' terms but perhaps 
other translators work differently?

Michael


02/11/2014 22:03, sgrìobh Tom Davies:
> I've often wondered if they might be "good enough" to get rough
> translations done well enough for humans to proof-read and polish?  Perhaps
> just "good enough" to use alongside the human translators own skill and
> knowledge, perhaps to get some inspiration?  Perhaps better for people who
> are only just starting to translate things?

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