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

why yes, I am translating torment nexus marketing again, why are you asking

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imagine going through your life not knowing that no preposition in your language maps perfectly to any preposition in any other language

the people in AI commercials who can't read an email or use a stock photo or a search engine or like, their memory in their head like:

Irgendwas piepst draußen SEIT GESTERN ziemlich genau im Sekundentakt und ich werde mit jeder Minute gewaltbereiter

getting your steam account back after a couple years of not logging in more difficult than getting top secret security clearance

Translating background prompts for so-called AI so-called Agents is so fucking paranoia inducing. Genuinely feels like someone is trying to take over my brain. Brrrr.

Arbeite smärter statt härter 🤓

Clicke "like" on my workes, ye mightye, and subscrybe.

I saw some Odd Ones on my recent mushrooming trip. And also a ton of black trumpets (not pictured), which are one of the oddest edible mushrooms I've collected thus far. #fungifriends

look sometimes a thing just begs the question....... it's not like I don't want your money for me and my colleagues but if you made every other part of this thing with AI why.... do you want a human for the translation... why

you say "verfügen über" I say backspace backspace backspace backspace etc

Fantasizing about composting everyone who works in marketing, including me, again

the real challenge in my field is finding a target language phrase that is empty enough to somewhat accurately reflect the emptiness of the source while hopefully not being empty enough to enrage the reader as much as reading the source enraged me

I have a new #1 most empty marketing phrase (walking the tightrope of how openly to slag off my customers means not sharing my new #1 most empty marketing phrase)

Love to translate hype for stuff I know from podcasts (as signs of doom and dystopia) 👍

Wahres Aufblühen meiner Social-Media-Präsenz dadurch, dass ich an meinem eigenen Computer arbeite

Gestern hat jemand mir gegenüber @magietheorie.bsky.social als "deine Frau" bezeichnet. Also kann ich hen nun "meine sogenannte Frau" nennen. (Aber bevorzuge schon ganz amtlich korrekt Ehepartner 1)

Okay das ist witzig, wenn man das so visualisiert

a novel I wrote thirteen years ago has a couple characters who believe they've developed AIs that can predict the future, and who do all kinds of shit their AI tells them to do I look at these characters sooooooo differently now

rate your source text in face palms per minute

if this text says "several key factors" one more time, I swear to god

MT Postediting like: Präpositionalphrase vom Ende des Satzes hinters Verb schieben, zu dem sie gehört Satz neu schreiben Partner*in MT Fail vorlesen "verfügen über" durch "haben" ersetzen Präpositionalphrase verschieben Präpositionalphrase verschieben

so wie Hochzeitsfotografie, aber mit Aquarellfarbe und Buntstiften war im September dabei als sich @magietheorie.bsky.social und @jaycogi.bsky.social vor der heimtlichen Kirche unterm Lindenbaum das Jawort gaben, so unheimlich schön queer wars #Skizzenbuch #VisualDiary #ImmerZeichnen