Progress is possible (ctrl+z now does something in XTM. Not exactly what I would want it to do across segments, but something.)

The difference between cucumbers and pickles is jarring.

Pigeon milk.

don't know why голубой isn't a thing in more languages, seeing as how so many of them have pink. But then, are there any languages that have specific terms for light green / green mixed with white or light yellow / yellow mixed with white?

Ehepart Ehemitglied Ehegeleut Eheassoziation Eheling

baiting myself into finishing this project by giving myself a treat for every completed 5%

Feeling gaslit by the Duden cause it only lists Kommentar, der and not Kommentar, das all my life I've believed these to be two distinct concepts

Is your "Title" field really "optional" if it defaults to "Mr." when left empty? much to think about

omg, nailed

it's bandcamp friday i can buy two albums

in case you too have been looking for a shortcut to insert TM matches into segments in XTM, per default it's Alt+I, Alt+M to insert without tags, and Ctrl+Alt+[number of match] for any matches after the first one. and you can change the shortcuts in settings > shortcuts > matches.

bla bla language changes bla bla I'm not a prescriptivist absolutely hate calling a machine translation just "translation" though

1 Dopamin bitte

If you're in the closet you're a secret agend and obviously all of you are ✨special agends✨ to me

Neue Anrede just dropped: Agend (ausgesprochen Agent wegen Auslautverhärtung)

Roses are red "Wordness" is debatable So let's reconsider How we use "untranslatable"

Roses are red You wear a bandana Time flies like an arrow Fruit flies like a banana

Ominous bird valentines.

🪨🌼 🧀🍪

welcome to my life

it is so charming that the icon for sending emails is a paper plane. My job is to scribble "yes I can take this job", fold it and toss it vaguely in the direction of my agency contacts sometimes I attach a whole translation to the plane which makes it wobble precariously but it still gets there

One must imagine Sisyphus rolling the boulder down into Plato's cave and everyone running Indiana Jones style

Thinking about efficient communication see reading is faster than listening, but speaking is faster than writing so to the information receiver, this meeting they had to sit through could have been an email but to the information giver this email they had to write could have been a meeting

Schon bissl ein Armutszeugnis, wenn das Rechtschreibprogramm alle Länder im imperialen Zentrum kennt aber kaum afrikanische (nein, ich will "Lesotho" nicht zu "Sophokles" ändern. Danke.)

the "medieval people didn't know how to draw animals" crowd has been real quiet ever since john siferwas dropped the Perfect Woodcock

landlords keep the hot water & heating on for more than 48 hours at a time challenge

For my followers in the EU, there is an European citizens’ initiative you can sign to demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. If you are for BDS this would be a huge step up. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

A long long tyme ago Ich kan yet remembir How the music oft wolde make me smyle And Ich knewe that yf luck payed me court Thenne Ich koude make the folk cavort And mayhap to be mirtheful for a while

Please. Please. Don't use a superscript o instead of a degree symbol. I will judge you. I will think lesser of you. I will look down on you.

instead of "first we will summarize X briefly, then we will lay out X in detail and then we'll conclude with the most important takeaways from X" try "first we will say X, then we will say X again, slightly rephrased, and we will conclude with another slight rephrasing"

LLM-aided machine translations stop elaborating on short segments challenge

absentmindedly type "youtube" into the youtube search bar to get the absolute worst shit imaginable

doing a tiny bit of literary translation, for free, as a test and my crops are watered, my skin is clear etc etc

I have a long-running list of surprising eponyms, and in this dark time I wish to share my amusement with you. To clarify, an eponym is something named for a person. “Newton’s Laws” are called that for Isaac Newton. A surprising eponym is just that. So, let’s begin. Eponyms/0

Aufpassen auf diesen scam, nennt sich "9 to 5".

Faktencheck: Die Realität genitalangleichender operativer Eingriffe bei Minderjährigen Die aktuelle Debatte suggeriert oft eine „Welle“ von Operationen bei trans Kindern. Ein Blick in die offizielle Krankenhausstatistik (Destatis, 2023) korrigiert dieses Bild drastisch: 1

Every time someone says "I can't write X, editors will never buy it" an angel loses its wings Those shining adamantine feathers, sharper than death, slice all creatures in their path to molecule-thin ribbons, blood raining down onto acres of land rendered poisonous for decades. So maybe reconsider

most of my posts here are airing out some grievance or another about my job, but I'm genuinely enjoying freelance translating so much. For the first time in years the phrase "upcoming holidays" doesn't inspire dread of piling up work. I can complain about work without fear of getting fired.

potential client's job listings: PROVEN experience only please share all your previous clients and projects and credits potential client's NDAs: never tell anyone you worked for us or what you did for us. obviously we will never credit you with anything

the absolute astonishment when a newly introduced functionality in software documentation sounds like it might actually be useful to somebody

in my opinion, the holiday message or the note about the out of service elevator a company sends out doesn't need to be content. just write an email and print a note. maybe.

whyyyy keep praising/promoting AI "summaries" when LLM output is notoriously overly wordy and repetitive

ah, the butlerian jihad

Whatever make it 10 factor authentication.. I don't want to be able to sign into anything ever again

the first pic in the "Animals with paper party hats" category on Wikimedia Commons could make me cry

agonizing over/upon/on/about the right preposition is a bane of/on/upon/for my existence

my favourite hobby is searching people's book recommendations in Libby and clicking the little "Notify Me" button

I swear the guy in my source text got paid by amount of culturally specific metaphors

sometimes.... when the source says "structures" three times in the same sentence...... I will also say "Strukturen" three times