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Emergency quashed!
Aug. 6th, 2011 08:57 pmThat "emergency" translation that had to be edited today came in on the dot of noon, the deadline, but it took me a full 45 minutes to absorb the impact of just what, in the name of anything, had been dropped in my lap.
I found about a half dozen serious errors within the first 15 minutes of editing, which covered something like 300 words of the overall 9,500 words in the project. A number of the pretranslated segments were apparently not looked at. There were a number of places where text was copied and pasted, owing to the similarity of sections of source text, but the job of fixing the pasted text to match the source was botched.
There were pretranslated segments in the file, but the remaining source was translated "in place," i.e., without using TRADOS or anything compatible. That put me in the unenviable position of having to switch my attention between three screens (when I only have two, and small ones at that). At one point, I enlisted Alla 's help to have her read the source text on one screen while I compared what I heard to what I saw in the translation, and then attempted to edit fast enough—with occasional references to a separate machine, which displayed the original document the source was taken from—to fix the, um, inaccuracies.
At one point in the source document, which featured a table with images of text pages in the left-hand column and the corresponding text in the right-hand column, some of the table cells were empty, and some of the cells contained graphics but there was no corresponding text in the source, nor any translation of the text in the images. Since I couldn't tell whether this was by design or by malfunction, I just powered on through and fixed what was there.
I'm betting that tomorrow, I'll get a couple of emails asking me to fix some stuff related to this project, but I won't mind losing that bet (plus, it's with myself, so it really doesn't matter! <grin>).
I am completely frazzled. Time to rest, if I can remember how.
Cheers...
I found about a half dozen serious errors within the first 15 minutes of editing, which covered something like 300 words of the overall 9,500 words in the project. A number of the pretranslated segments were apparently not looked at. There were a number of places where text was copied and pasted, owing to the similarity of sections of source text, but the job of fixing the pasted text to match the source was botched.
There were pretranslated segments in the file, but the remaining source was translated "in place," i.e., without using TRADOS or anything compatible. That put me in the unenviable position of having to switch my attention between three screens (when I only have two, and small ones at that). At one point, I enlisted Alla 's help to have her read the source text on one screen while I compared what I heard to what I saw in the translation, and then attempted to edit fast enough—with occasional references to a separate machine, which displayed the original document the source was taken from—to fix the, um, inaccuracies.
At one point in the source document, which featured a table with images of text pages in the left-hand column and the corresponding text in the right-hand column, some of the table cells were empty, and some of the cells contained graphics but there was no corresponding text in the source, nor any translation of the text in the images. Since I couldn't tell whether this was by design or by malfunction, I just powered on through and fixed what was there.
I'm betting that tomorrow, I'll get a couple of emails asking me to fix some stuff related to this project, but I won't mind losing that bet (plus, it's with myself, so it really doesn't matter! <grin>).
I am completely frazzled. Time to rest, if I can remember how.
Cheers...
