Any LinkedIn User?

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 05 Jan 2007, 18:41

I'm curious to see if any CHer is using that site. Here's my profile:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/christianhinse

Panda Tar · Unread postby **Panda Tar** » 05 Jan 2007, 18:44

It's looks like a professional community?

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 05 Jan 2007, 18:52

Yeah, you can keep track of partners, former colleagues, fellow classmates, and so on. It's not one of those cheap social network thing.

winterfate · Unread postby **winterfate** » 06 Jan 2007, 01:12

Interesting!

Angelspit...what does a Localization Specialist do?

Caradoc · Unread postby **Caradoc** » 06 Jan 2007, 03:41

CHER?

winterfate · Unread postby **winterfate** » 06 Jan 2007, 06:09

Caradoc, is that an answer to my question?

If so, I don't get it

.

It's times like these I feel really dumb...

Gaidal Cain · Unread postby **Gaidal Cain** » 06 Jan 2007, 09:55

Caradoc wrote:CHER?

No, CHer:

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 06 Jan 2007, 16:01

CHER or CHer, both look the same.

Localization is the process of translating software in other languages (French in my case), and resolving any user interface issue.

theLuckyDragon · Unread postby **theLuckyDragon** » 06 Jan 2007, 16:45

Hey, that sounds interesting. Does "translating software" mean just that? "Computer" turns into "ordinateur" and so on? Or is there more to it? I'm really interested in this.

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 06 Jan 2007, 18:21

We basically take all parts of the English program (fields, drop-down list values, error messages, reports, etc.), translate them, put them together in the translated program and test the usability (to avoid issues related to label lengths and date formats, among others). Text that is displayed on-screen often comes from a multilingual table, so the user can easily switch from a German to an English interface without any additional setup. A few decades ago, software translation used to be done inside the code itself, and it was a nightmare for the translator. More recently, the process has improved dramatically thanks to translation tools suggesting translations from a memory built with text strings that were translated in the past. That alone helped to improve the consistency of terminology in a given program. But it also opened the door to outsourcing so software publishers have once again been getting rid of in-house translators.

But enough of that, you're probably all asleep already.

theLuckyDragon · Unread postby **theLuckyDragon** » 06 Jan 2007, 18:35

I'm studying to become a translator ("Faculty of Applied Modern Languages"), so I'm interested in anything that has to do with translating. A combination of translating and computers sounds like something close to 7th heaven, IMO

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 06 Jan 2007, 21:57

I was first heading to computer sciences, but switched to linguistics after I got bad grades in a math and physics class. Ending up in a large software manufacturer was the best of both worlds.

There is a large demand for software translation, but in many cases it is done via agencies (the outsourcing I told you about). Since some older translators are still not familiar with computers, it provides an opportunity for recruits to get started and gain those crucial first 3-5 years of experience.

If you have any question, feel free to email me.

Pol · Unread postby **Pol** » 06 Jan 2007, 23:05

If you would like to train I suggest to install linux and try kbabel or poedit on windows, but it less powerfull. Here is more translating engines some producers are having theirs own. I must say it's boring job and tremendously hard if you are translating something with deep point. I'm also peering occassionaly in this direction, so once whoever will know....

winterfate · Unread postby **winterfate** » 07 Jan 2007, 02:27

Cool job, Angelspit!

theLuckyDragon · Unread postby **theLuckyDragon** » 07 Jan 2007, 10:34

Angelspit wrote:I was first heading to computer sciences, but switched to linguistics after I got bad grades in a math and physics class. Ending up in a large software manufacturer was the best of both worlds.

There is a large demand for software translation, but in many cases it is done via agencies (the outsourcing I told you about). Since some older translators are still not familiar with computers, it provides an opportunity for recruits to get started and gain those crucial first 3-5 years of experience.

If you have any question, feel free to email me.

I was good with highschool level maths and physics (I even liked thermodinamics!), but I knew from the very beginning that anything more complex than that would be too much for me. Too bad computer sciences need all that maths.

I'll certainly ask if I think of something. Thanks

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 08 Jan 2007, 01:40

sounds alright AS, but makes me glad that I did pass my maths and physics at Uni and graduate in Computer Science

Panda Tar · Unread postby **Panda Tar** » 08 Jan 2007, 13:10

theLuckyDragon wrote:I'm studying to become a translator ("Faculty of Applied Modern Languages"), so I'm interested in anything that has to do with translating. A combination of translating and computers sounds like something close to 7th heaven, IMO

Translating, you say? How does that work? (I mean if there are languages you're up to translate, or just one, from where, this stuff)

theLuckyDragon · Unread postby **theLuckyDragon** » 08 Jan 2007, 15:55

My foreign language combination is English-French, and native Romanian, if that's what you were asking. Translations go from the foreign language to the native one; if it's the other way around, it's called a retroversion.

Panda Tar · Unread postby **Panda Tar** » 08 Jan 2007, 15:58

How long is that Faculty course?

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