Strange language providers Thread poster: Claudio Porcellana (X)
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Claudio Porcellana (X) 
Italy
Local time: 03:39
English to Italian
Just received this mass-email offer now through Proz
Amount: 150k words
Tool: Memsource
Languages: English to Ligurian
Apart the mass-email unmatched with my expertise, English to Ligurian?
Considerind that odd offers are increasingly common on Proz, I am asking to myself if those guys are really searching for "exotic" language couples, or they are just lazy missiing a secon... See more Just received this mass-email offer now through Proz
Amount: 150k words
Tool: Memsource
Languages: English to Ligurian
Apart the mass-email unmatched with my expertise, English to Ligurian?
Considerind that odd offers are increasingly common on Proz, I am asking to myself if those guys are really searching for "exotic" language couples, or they are just lazy missiing a second lecture ▲ Collapse
| | | | Jean Lachaud
United States
Local time: 21:39
English to French
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| Monaco, who would have thought | Oct 5, 2021 |
Copied from the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligurian_language) on Ligurian:
"[Ligurian] has been adopted formally in Monaco under the name Monégasque – locally, Munegascu – but without the status of official language (that is French). Monaco is the only place where a variety of Ligurian is taught in school."
Just saying!!
J L
| | | | Claudio Porcellana (X)
Italy
Local time: 03:39
English to Italian
TOPIC STARTER | Strange language providers | Oct 5, 2021 |
Jean Lachaud wrote: Copied from the Wikipedia page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligurian_language) on Ligurian: "[Ligurian] has been adopted formally in Monaco under the name Monégasque – locally, Munegascu – but without the status of official language (that is French). Monaco is the only place where a variety of Ligurian is taught in school." Just saying!! J L
Yes, I see...
nevertheless I suspect they aren't so sophisticated
;-D
| | | | Daryo
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:39
Serbian to English
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| At least Ligurian / Munegasc | Oct 5, 2021 |
is a real language.
I remember years ago spotting an ad from some wannabe LSP offering jobs for translators in many language pairs, including from/into Belgian and Swiss languages.
Out of curiosity I phoned the number given , and said I speak "Belgian" (well it's at least "half-true" ...) and some pompous arrogant women asked me "How good is your Belgian?".
I also offered to translate from / into "Swiss", and of course got asked the same question, in a dea... See more is a real language.
I remember years ago spotting an ad from some wannabe LSP offering jobs for translators in many language pairs, including from/into Belgian and Swiss languages.
Out of curiosity I phoned the number given , and said I speak "Belgian" (well it's at least "half-true" ...) and some pompous arrogant women asked me "How good is your Belgian?".
I also offered to translate from / into "Swiss", and of course got asked the same question, in a dead serious voice!
"If someone told you that, you wouldn't believe it" kind of experience ... ▲ Collapse
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Claudio Porcellana (X)
Italy
Local time: 03:39
English to Italian
TOPIC STARTER | Strange language providers | Oct 6, 2021 |
Daryo wrote:
I remember years ago spotting an ad from some wannabe LSP offering jobs for translators in many language pairs, including from/into Belgian and Swiss languages.
Well, I don't know Belgian, but asking for Swiss languages is sound because e.g. in Ticino Canton they speak a language that reminds a bit the Italian, but is quite different, and I think the same applies to the French and German spoken in the other matching Cantons
[Edited at 2021-10-06 12:43 GMT]
| | | | Daryo
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:39
Serbian to English
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| Clarification | Oct 12, 2021 |
Claudio Porcellana wrote: Daryo wrote:
I remember years ago spotting an ad from some wannabe LSP offering jobs for translators in many language pairs, including from/into Belgian and Swiss languages.
Well, I don't know Belgian, but asking for Swiss languages is sound because e.g. in Ticino Canton they speak a language that reminds a bit the Italian, but is quite different, and I think the same applies to the French and German spoken in the other matching Cantons
explanation for the plural for "languages":
... including from/into the "Belgian language" and the "Swiss language"
Another clarification: all that happened mid-90s (last century!) when Internet and emails was still a novelty technology so when I replied to that ad published in the local newspaper I actually spoke on a landline (believe or not!) to that women who wanted a start a translation agency, and was plainly convinced that "obviously" there must be only one language for each country, of the same name as the country.
I lost count of people who said to me in the past "so you speak Yugoslavian"? The big difference being that none of them was in the translation / interpreting business, or a wannabe Language Services Provider.
[Edited at 2021-10-12 08:32 GMT]
| | | | Claudio Porcellana (X)
Italy
Local time: 03:39
English to Italian
TOPIC STARTER | I actually spoke on a landline | Oct 12, 2021 |
I believe you
On of my first customers wanted to meet me in person, and his agency was 400 km away
It seems to speak about the Dino era, and it was...
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