Re: Emacs as a translator's tool

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2020-06-05, at 05:15, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text 
editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:

> Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure I understand where you're drifting.
>>
>> Idiomatic translations can be helped with tools,
>> but as we see with MT, even the best tools still
>> fail to produce correct idiomatic translations.
>>
>> Which is the reason why I wrote "that is exactly
>> what the translator is here for", meaning that the
>> translator is here to ensure that the translation
>> is idiomatic.
>>
>> The tool can help the translator to produce
>> a string that the translator will validate
>> as idiomatic.
>
> A file with common pitfalls and idiomatic
> translations can help both machine AND human
> translators find the idiomatic translation, or, if
> there isn't one really, what people would say
> instead...

The point I am trying to make (and I guess Jean-Christophe, too) is that
most of the time, a professional translator won't _need_ such a file,
since knowing "common pitfalls and idiomatic translations" by heart is
one of the most important parts of their profession anyway.  What you
suggest is like giving a C programmer a cheat sheet with the syntax of
`if', `for` and `while`.

Best,

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