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If you think that somebody's work rate is unfathomably slow or unimaginably fast, that's none of your business. We all have different priorities. I for one am entirely comfortable working 365 days a year and cannot imagine anything more miserable than two idle weeks, and nobody has any business commentating on my way of life.
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Lingua 5B wrote:
... but it does sound like competitive running, which translation is not, the last time I checked.
Your figures seem exaggerated or more like a professional typist figures (but even they have time limits in order not to jeopardize accuracy). If you work in a patent office dealing with the same or similar type of files and materials daily, the process may indeed resemble typing or copy-pasting (with a great deal of repetitions).
I agree. Steven said "I can type" instead of "I can translate".
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I have managed 4000 words in a day - the first time was in house, for a magazine with an easy style, a lot of chit-chat and not much special terminology. I can do bursts at that level, but I can't sustain them.
Way back, I proofread patent specifications at a printer's for a couple of years. (This was monolingual proofreading, NOT revising and editing.) The language is often stereotyped and quite repetitive within each document. Pure gobbledegook as far as I was concerned, but my jo... See more I have managed 4000 words in a day - the first time was in house, for a magazine with an easy style, a lot of chit-chat and not much special terminology. I can do bursts at that level, but I can't sustain them.
Way back, I proofread patent specifications at a printer's for a couple of years. (This was monolingual proofreading, NOT revising and editing.) The language is often stereotyped and quite repetitive within each document. Pure gobbledegook as far as I was concerned, but my job then was NOT to understand the text, it was to find the printing errors. (It was a terrible job, BTW - I spent all my spare time looking for something else!)
With a CAT tool - do you use one? - and a good glossary, I am sure people could get familiar enough with the subject to get through quite large numbers of overall words in some languages, English included, and possibly German t some extent.
I personally can't type very fast; the problem is an innate lack of manual dexterity and coordination, not effort and practice in learning to touch-type! However, with a computer and AutoCorrect, that is not the limiting factor when I translate. I simply cannot translate faster.
It depends to some extent which language you are counting words in. If you take 1000 words of English, you get something like 20-25% less on average in Danish and Swedish, and I believe the difference is even greater with German and Finnish. I don't know whether this was what Matthias Brombach had in mind.
The difference goes the other way with romance languages - I believe you get more words in French or Spanish, for instance, than in English.
As others have pointed out, the subject matter makes a big difference, and another factor is the use of inflections, articles and so on. It is many years since I have translated from German, and I have never counted words as such. More often I wrote abstracts rather than actually translating, and I never spent a whole day on it. But as others have pointed out, the use of inflections, diacritics and so on make a big difference, not only to typing, but to how useful a CAT tool is.
Fuzzy matches may be totally useless if you have to change the gender all the way through, or things like that - you end up retyping the sentence anyway. I am lucky - in my language pairs fuzzy matches down to 75% may be useful, though below 90% their usefulness is probably limited.
With regard to formatting, a CAT may take care of it 100%, or it may convert a neat presentation into a nightmare... and I have spent more time on formatting in some cases than on actually translating!
I am always annoyed by word counts. They reduce translation somehow to an amorphous mass like groceries. Together with other considerations, the word count is a useful measurement, but it is only a single factor in the wider picture. Like how many kilos of vegetables does a supermarket sell each day? The question is not totally irrelevant, but the answer is meaningless as an isolated figure. ▲ Collapse
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