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Yondering...
Sep. 28th, 2003 02:05 pmFeht lives a little over 11 miles off the main highway, up a dirt road that meanders all over the place and provides some entertainment in a couple of places where one tops a rise or takes a corner. Galina and I went over last night to sit, talk, and drink some tea. We ended up eating dinner and having some wine, too.
The evening was marred, if you want to call it that, by the no-show of Feht's neighbor Jim, who spends only a limited time in the area between business trips to various corners of the world. Feht had wanted to introduce us to each other, but in the end, it didn't really matter: we all ended up having a good time, although Feht was clearly annoyed.
Ming Toy got me up early today with his whiny insistence on being let out around 5 am. More whining and barking got me up to let him back in soon after. I did rather jump about to keep the little pest quiet, so as not to disturb Galina's sleep.
It's tough to say when I started on the third instalment of the weekend's work, but fortunately, I'm done now. Déjà Vu X did a marvelous job of helping, and I'm really impressed with the product, as its interface is head and shoulders above that of the previous version of the application.
Feht and I had words about TM apps yesterday, on the phone, before we came to visit. His position, basically, is that such programs really don't help, and he submitted as evidence the fact that when a client of his submits a revised version of a document, it takes Feht much longer to process it using a TM application than it would otherwise take if he was allowed to do an eyeball identification of the changes and apply them to the original translation.
I think I know what he's talking about. When processing some tables in TRADOS, I find I'm better off closing the current segment, skipping to the end of the table, and then resuming TRADOS use with the first segment following the table; it's just faster.
However, I don't think Feht's anecdotal instance is sufficient to consign all TM products to the scrap heap. Just because a tool may not be useful when used in a particular manner doesn't mean it's not useful at all.
I think I'm going to take a break, then I'll come back, output the translations to files, and review them.
Cheers...
The evening was marred, if you want to call it that, by the no-show of Feht's neighbor Jim, who spends only a limited time in the area between business trips to various corners of the world. Feht had wanted to introduce us to each other, but in the end, it didn't really matter: we all ended up having a good time, although Feht was clearly annoyed.
Ming Toy got me up early today with his whiny insistence on being let out around 5 am. More whining and barking got me up to let him back in soon after. I did rather jump about to keep the little pest quiet, so as not to disturb Galina's sleep.
It's tough to say when I started on the third instalment of the weekend's work, but fortunately, I'm done now. Déjà Vu X did a marvelous job of helping, and I'm really impressed with the product, as its interface is head and shoulders above that of the previous version of the application.
Feht and I had words about TM apps yesterday, on the phone, before we came to visit. His position, basically, is that such programs really don't help, and he submitted as evidence the fact that when a client of his submits a revised version of a document, it takes Feht much longer to process it using a TM application than it would otherwise take if he was allowed to do an eyeball identification of the changes and apply them to the original translation.
I think I know what he's talking about. When processing some tables in TRADOS, I find I'm better off closing the current segment, skipping to the end of the table, and then resuming TRADOS use with the first segment following the table; it's just faster.
However, I don't think Feht's anecdotal instance is sufficient to consign all TM products to the scrap heap. Just because a tool may not be useful when used in a particular manner doesn't mean it's not useful at all.
I think I'm going to take a break, then I'll come back, output the translations to files, and review them.
Cheers...
