Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: the best and easiest CAT for the newbie
Poster: Georgie Scott
Post title: I was going to say this
[quote]Vladimir Pochinov wrote:
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
[quote]Vladimir Pochinov wrote:
quite a lot [/quote]
Answer my point about TMs. [/quote]
As I mentioned in my previous message, I make available project TMs (as TMX files) upon request. Anyway, any client can easily align the source and target files, thus obtaining a copy of the project TM in TMX format for subsequent import into their own 'big mama' TM. [/quote]
TMs are really useful (for both agencies and freelancers) but I think they are slightly less useful than you make them sound, Tom. It's really more about situations where you would cut and paste something or not have to really think to deal with a sentence because one word has simply been replaced by a synonym.
Agencies will never see your own TMs and about half the time they won't even add their own TM to projects, sometimes it's just not worth it.
As I said, I don't think your fears are completely unfounded and I agree that CATs are not indispensable, but I think that if you did use a CAT tool some of your fears would be probably be assuaged.
Again, this is coming from someone who would never give her CATs up.
Edited to say that if an agency drops you because you refuse to share the project TM, it is probably because that it quite an obtuse thing to do if you've used a CAT tool, as, although they can align the documents and create their own TM, you have the TM just sitting there ready to go already. It would be a bit like forcing someone to get up and fetch water from the tap because you don't want to pass them the water jug right in front of you.
[Edited at 2018-04-23 15:40 GMT]
Topic: the best and easiest CAT for the newbie
Poster: Georgie Scott
Post title: I was going to say this
[quote]Vladimir Pochinov wrote:
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
[quote]Vladimir Pochinov wrote:
quite a lot [/quote]
Answer my point about TMs. [/quote]
As I mentioned in my previous message, I make available project TMs (as TMX files) upon request. Anyway, any client can easily align the source and target files, thus obtaining a copy of the project TM in TMX format for subsequent import into their own 'big mama' TM. [/quote]
TMs are really useful (for both agencies and freelancers) but I think they are slightly less useful than you make them sound, Tom. It's really more about situations where you would cut and paste something or not have to really think to deal with a sentence because one word has simply been replaced by a synonym.
Agencies will never see your own TMs and about half the time they won't even add their own TM to projects, sometimes it's just not worth it.
As I said, I don't think your fears are completely unfounded and I agree that CATs are not indispensable, but I think that if you did use a CAT tool some of your fears would be probably be assuaged.
Again, this is coming from someone who would never give her CATs up.
Edited to say that if an agency drops you because you refuse to share the project TM, it is probably because that it quite an obtuse thing to do if you've used a CAT tool, as, although they can align the documents and create their own TM, you have the TM just sitting there ready to go already. It would be a bit like forcing someone to get up and fetch water from the tap because you don't want to pass them the water jug right in front of you.
[Edited at 2018-04-23 15:40 GMT]