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Poll: Do you create/maintain glossaries? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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I created glossaries for some of my clients and I add terms while working, it is part of my daily translation routine. Besides that, I have been compiling an acronym glossary (PT(pt) for the last 40 years (643 pages now!) and I update it from time to time...
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Lieven Malaise
Belgium
Local time: 20:23
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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As a CAT tool user I use my own translation memories, where I can search for all terminology in context.
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 20:23
Spanish to English
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I used to create glossaries for specific clients, but rarely do so nowadays. I do still keep a list of mistranslations found in my main client's source material.
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Sebastian Witte 
Germany
Local time: 20:23
Member (2004)
English to German
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We create and maintain our own subject matter-specific MultiTerm termbases for term recognition in Trados Studio. This helps ensure consistency in specialist translation and enhances our daily throughput.
Some termbase entries come with notes.
[Edited at 2024-07-24 06:27 GMT]
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Over the years I have made several small word lists, and for a while tried to maintain a list of what official Danish institutions called themselves in English.
I started by using spare time at work to type a printed list into a searchable table in Word, and later moved part of it over to Multiterm. I have never finished, becasue I checked and dated each entry, so the second half is incomplete. It would take a lot of work - and in fact be an ongoing task indefinitely - to keep it up... See more Over the years I have made several small word lists, and for a while tried to maintain a list of what official Danish institutions called themselves in English.
I started by using spare time at work to type a printed list into a searchable table in Word, and later moved part of it over to Multiterm. I have never finished, becasue I checked and dated each entry, so the second half is incomplete. It would take a lot of work - and in fact be an ongoing task indefinitely - to keep it updated.
I have also made glossaries for clients occasionally, and contributed to others. I gave up fairly fast on a food glossary! Lexicographers and people who actually succeed in compiling systematic, usable glossaries and dictionaries have my deepest respect. ▲ Collapse
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| Glossaries: a gift from heaven | Jul 24 |
I save every word I type in a glossary. Really!
I have a big glossary of all the words I have translated.
And I have a QA glossary for each client.
Glossaries are the way to go for me. YMMV...
My glossaries:
- are used by the autosuggestion (autocompletion/prompter) feature in my CAT tool
- make sure I don't make typos
- allow me to achieve absolute terminological consistency
- speed up my work
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I save every word I type in a glossary. Really!
I have a big glossary of all the words I have translated.
And I have a QA glossary for each client.
Glossaries are the way to go for me. YMMV...
My glossaries:
- are used by the autosuggestion (autocompletion/prompter) feature in my CAT tool
- make sure I don't make typos
- allow me to achieve absolute terminological consistency
- speed up my work
Thank god for glossaries!!! ▲ Collapse
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Lieven Malaise
Belgium
Local time: 20:23
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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Christine Andersen wrote:
Lexicographers and people who actually succeed in compiling systematic, usable glossaries and dictionaries have my deepest respect.
That's why I don't like glossaries as such. Translations are often only as good as the context in which they are used. Some clients insist on using a termbase (basically a semi-automated glossary in a CAT tool), but often I have to ignore the suggested translations because they are simply no good in the given context.
Even technical terms can have multiple translations.
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It might be a little old skool, but I remember stuff.
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IrinaN
United States
Local time: 13:23
English to Russian
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Simply because the glossaries I had to follow have always been created, maintained and updated (manually!!!) by the editors of huge projects, and made available to me either through dedicated and secured links or, whenever possible, just by a simple email attachment. But I am responsible for quite a few accepted entries .
For the occasional small stuff and the results of any research for the upcoming stray interpretati... See more Simply because the glossaries I had to follow have always been created, maintained and updated (manually!!!) by the editors of huge projects, and made available to me either through dedicated and secured links or, whenever possible, just by a simple email attachment. But I am responsible for quite a few accepted entries.
For the occasional small stuff and the results of any research for the upcoming stray interpretation assignments outside of my major projects... not really, too lazy. ▲ Collapse
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expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 19:23
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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One of the services I offer is terminology.
Ever since I started learning about and using CAT Tools, I have always used and created glossaries and databases, as well as other useful resources for my work.
I have created my own style guide which needs to be updated by the end of this year...
I use everything I see that helps me in translation.
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| I can´t remember everything | Jul 25 |
Christopher Schröder wrote:
It might be a little old skool, but I remember stuff.
Past my ´three score years and ten´, I know I can´t remember everything, and cannot reliably remember what I need most. And believe me, I did plenty of old-school remembering back in the day! All the same, I began making glossaries before I turned fifty, and was given a lot of good advice about it by a younger colleague.
My son had a fabulous memory when he was young - from about eight to his twenties. Still, somewhere in his teens he started writing things down and keeping lists. He says now that it sharpens the memory to set things in a system.
I bet Christopher has some kind of system, conscious or unconscious, to keep his memory sharp!
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Christine Andersen wrote:
I bet Christopher has some kind of system, conscious or unconscious, to keep his memory sharp!
No, I forget plenty of stuff, especially in real life. But I work for a very limited number of clients in a very limited number of areas, and I have 30 years of old translations on my computer that can be searched in a fraction of a second...
I made glossaries when I first started but found that it took more time than it ever saved, especially as the very act of making an entry makes you remember it. I feel the same about termbases (is that the term?!).
The only notes I ever keep are things like "do a compare of Note 13 in Word" or "allow eight hours" or "you hated this so quote a fortune".
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| Specialist versus generalist | Jul 25 |
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote:
... But I work for a very limited number of clients in a very limited number of areas, and I have 30 years of old translations on my computer that can be searched in a fraction of a second...
That helps. I'm a generalist, and get bored with jobs bigger than 10,000 words! I read up and know where to search for information and terminology in several different areas.
I like glossaries to keep track of clusters of terms that fit together - but may suit different contexts or target readers. It comes from my librarian background - a text is only useful if it is read and understood by the right people!
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