Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

One more fascinating year ends. We want to say hereby Thank You for the trust you show us.

TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM MSOC GROUP has increased one more time 2008 its market position with innovative strategies based on people.

We wish all a merry christmas and a happy 2009!

TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM ALBANIA moves its offices

TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM MSOC GROUP decides to move its offices in Albania.

All information, including the new contact details, will be made available online soon.

In the meantime you can continue to contact the albania office via the well-known e-mail address.

TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM improves its website

TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM relaunches its website providing improvements in the communication with clients, journalists and franchising candidates.

The clients have now, among other things, the opportunity to contact the TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM offices directly, through the contact and/or quotation form, without using a mail-client, but only selecting the office of their choice from the list.

TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM improved also its press service, providing online more information for journalists (use of logotypes etc.).

In addition, the improvements include further online information for franchising candidates (franchise brochure etc.).

TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM unterstützt FOLT-Initiative [German only]

FOLT (Forum Open Language Tools) ist ein Expertenverbund und versteht sich als Interessensvertretung unabhängiger Übersetzungsdienstleister, Übersetzer, Redakteure, Universitäten und Behörden – und nicht zuletzt eines freien globalen Übersetzungsmarkts. Im Arbeitskreis FOLT finden unabhängige branchenansässige Unternehmen Lösungen und Verbesserungen im gesamten Arbeitsablauf der Fremdsprachendokumentation. In Kooperation mit der Linux Solutions Group e.V. (LiSoG) wird an der Initiierung eines Open Source Translation Memory Systems gearbeitet.

Zudem leistet FOLT einen wichtigen Beitrag, dass die Übersetzungskunden flexibler, professioneller und kostengünstiger bedient werden können. TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM unterstützt auch dieses Vorgehen ...

MARKTSITUATION UND PROBLEMSTELLUNG

... Der Markt der Translation Memory Systemen (TMS) besteht zurzeit aus verschiedenen kommerziellen Systemen. Diese sind nicht kompatible untereinander und erlauben auch nicht den einfachen Datenaustausch. Generell, hat dies zu einen Standardisierungsmangel im Übersetzungsprozess geführt was die TM-Systeme betrifft. Die Übersetzer müssen sich entweder auf die Benutzung eines bestimmten TM-Systems spezialisieren oder lernen eine Anzahl verschiedener Systeme zu benutzen. Während viele Kunden die Benutzung nur eins von den kommerziellen Systemen bevorzugen, werden die Fachübersetzer aufgrund Ihrer Erfahrung eines bestimmten TM-Systems eingesetzt und erst in zweiter Linie aufgrund Ihrer fachsprachlichen bzw. fachspezifischen Kenntnisse. Aus diesem Grund werden die Übersetzer über Ihre Fachkompetenzen hinaus mit zusätzlichen Arbeiten belastet. Das Vertrautwerden mit den Programmen, die Schulung und die neuen Versionen von kommerziellen Programmen nehmen mehr Zeit in Anspruch und schaffen zusätzliche Kosten, die nicht durch zusätzliches Einkommen ausgeglichen werden. Zudem sind die Einkaufs- und Aktualisierungskosten für die Standard kommerzielle Systeme unverhältnismäßig hoch....

INITIIERUNG EINES OPEN SOURCE TRANSLATION MEMORY SYSTEMS

Neben den Bestrebungen, mit den kommerziellen Herstellern von TM-Systemen in Bezug auf Standardisierung weiterhin in Kontakt zu bleiben, kam FOLT im Frühjahr 2007 zu dem Schluss, ein Open Source TM-System zu initiieren....

... In Zusammenarbeit mit LiSoG, startete FOLT eine Umfrage, bei der möglichst viele Personen, die mit Translation Memory Systemen arbeiten, befragt werden sollen. Die Ergebnisse dieser Umfrage werden regelmäßig veröffentlicht und fließen in die Entwicklung von TMOSS ein, dass kostenlos für Universitäten, Unternehmen und öffentliche Einrichtungen als auch freiberufliche Übersetzer zur Verfügung stehen wird....

http://www.translations-interpretings.com/news/en/Newsletters.html

TMOSS: The opportunity for genuine standards

Three translation memory systems for one and the same process? Software investments that cause translation costs to sky-rocket? Exchange formats as brakes on productivity?

In the FOLT (Forum Open Language Tools) working group companies, organisations and universities in the translation and documentation sector has joined forces to find solutions and improvements in the whole production of foreign language documentation. FOLT is working in cooperation with the Linux Solutions Group e.V. (www.lisog.org) in the initiation of TMOSS, an Open Source Translation Memory System.

The purpose of this is to:

Create genuine standards in the translation environment

Reduce the dependency on commercial systems

In every respect be open for new technologies and developments

Franchise interest increase by over 40 percent

Another year closed – by far the most successful year for TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM since the introduction of the franchise system. The only from translators and interpreters developed and on translators and interpreters based TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM franchise system develops into Europe's leading system in the translation industry and soon outside of these borders too.

TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM scored 2007 an increase in the franchise interest by over 40 percent compared to the previous year.

As a result of this development the new TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM offices and office managers will announce soon.

TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM opened last year the first office in Albania and the second in the Balkan region and improved consequently the albanian communication too.

The improvement of its services and products belongs also to the targets for 2008.

Quality Seal in the Translation Industry by TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM

... Of course are processes and tools important, but not exclusively. TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM is persuaded that if the offices won't manage by translators and/or interpreters, who are delighted with the language and its subtleties, surely nobody can expect high quality. The competent translators and interpreters continue to be the most important part to ensure high quality and cost-effective translations.

Additionally, the translators and interpreters are the only part which mediates at the same time beside languages also cultures ensuring the best possible communication between people or rather countries. They won't call without reason intercultural communicators....

... The TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM QUALITY SEAL may not be copied and/or used without permission. The copy and/or use is permitted only to TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM members....

http://www.translations-interpretings.com/profile/en/quality_assurance/Quality Seal.html

Bad Glück in Berlin Declaration translation

The Berlin Declaration, an EU document to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, was presented by German chancellor Angela Merkel on March 25th. In the first paragraph of the declaration, the German word ''Glück'' - meaning fortune or happiness - is used, but the most direct translation has been avoided in other language versions of the declaration. The EUobserver reports that one professor is calling this ''political translation''.

However, in the translated versions of the text the word Glück has been given a less solemn treatment. ''We, the citizens of the European Union, have united for the better'', the more down-to-earth English version says. The word has also disappeared from the Danish version where Glück has been replaced with ''vor falles bedste'' meaning ''for the best'' and further down the declaration deviations in the Danish version that it cannot possibly be a coincidence, Henning Koch, a professor in constitutional law at Copenhagen University, told Danish daily Politiken. ''It would come as a big surprise to me if the translators are bad at German. So then it's a political translation'', he said about the Danish version. According to Mr. Koch, the German word Glück - used in the declaration to describe the good fortune of 50 years of peace and unity - is too big a word for the Danes to use. ''Great, gushing and emotional terms are something the Danes fear'', he said, adding that ''Danish pragmatism cannot handle that we are happy for the EU. But you cannot deny reality by turning around the words.''

The following are translations of the word ''Glück'':

auspiciousness
bliss
felicity
fortunateness
fortune
happiness
luck
luckiness

Click here to see the official translations of the text:
http://www.eu2007.de/en/About_the_EU/Constitutional_Treaty/BerlinerErklaerung.html

Source: ITIA Bulletin, March 2007

TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM përmirëson komunikimin në Shqipëri [Albanian only]

Grupi TRANSLATIONS-INTERPRETINGS.COM MSOC, si firmë shërbimi kryesuese shumëkombëshe e certifikuar për komunikim shumëgjuhësh, ndër të tjera është edhe një specialist për gjuhën shqipe.

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