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Marilena Berca 
Spain
Local time: 23:31
Member (2009)
English to Spanish
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Hi, I was wondering if ProZ staff are thinking of organizing a new translation contest anytime soon... thanks, regards.
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This year's "big" contest will be announced over the next several weeks.
Thanks for asking!
| | | | Marilena Berca
Spain
Local time: 23:31
Member (2009)
English to Spanish
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TOPIC STARTER
Henry Dotterer wrote:
This year's "big" contest will be announced over the next several weeks.
Thanks for asking!
Thank you Henry! I am looking forward to it!
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Looking forward to it.
Cheers
Noni
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| | Ali Alsaqqa
United States
Local time: 17:31
English to Arabic
| Technical, Scientific | Oct 5, 2010 |
I saw the last year's contest, its subject was about literature.
But this is unfair for scientific and technical translators; we market ourselves
as "integrate f(x) from 0 to infinity with respect to x" translators, so we,
probably, are not going to win simply because this is not our specialization.
Any ideas for this year's contest ?
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Ali Al-Saqqa wrote:
I saw the last year's contest, its subject was about literature.
But this is unfair for scientific and technical translators; we market ourselves
as "integrate f(x) from 0 to infinity with respect to x" translators, so we,
probably, are not going to win simply because this is not our specialization.
Any ideas for this year's contest ?
Yes, I prefer translation of technical contexts. More translators will enjoy with it, I expect!
Soonthon Lupkitaro
| | | | Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 23:31
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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Christel Zipfel wrote:
Would it not be better to make sure to close a previous contest, and particularly within a reasonable time, before starting another one?
Are you serious? The previous contest has been "making a close" for months and months now. ProZ.com staff optimistically thought that if they don't set a deadline for voting, then more people would vote, even in languages where no-one is interested to vote (or: in languages where nearly everyone thinks the translations all stink).
I for one don't feel interested at all to partecipate and to vote once more under these circumstances.
What circumstances? I don't understand what it is about the last contest's voting procedures that discourage you from voting in the new contest... please explain?
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The system isn't perfect, I'll admit to that. For example, in the previous contest, I was not allowed to vote for my own entry, and so I had to vote for the second-best entry as "best", and the third-best entry as "second", and the fourth-best entry as "third". Since there are only 5 entries in my language combination, that means that the entry I would have had to vote for as "third best" is actually "third worst".
There is also no way to formally abstain from voting (AFAIK) so staff can't see whether non-voting is because of non-interest or because voters believe that no entries deserve a vote.
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inkweaver
Germany
Local time: 23:31
French to German
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Ali Al-Saqqa wrote:
I saw the last year's contest, its subject was about literature.
But this is unfair for scientific and technical translators; we market ourselves
as "integrate f(x) from 0 to infinity with respect to x" translators, so we,
probably, are not going to win simply because this is not our specialization.
Any ideas for this year's contest ?
The subject was "Business" if I remember correctly - that's why I didn't participate.
But with the wide range of possible specialisations, it is impossible to make every translator happy. I would certainly be delighted with a real literary text, but would give legal or technical texts a miss.
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Henry Dotterer wrote:
This year's "big" contest will be announced over the next several weeks.
That's good to hear since 'this year' is almost done.
Looking forward to the contest.
| | | | Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 23:31
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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| Last year's contest's topic | Oct 6, 2010 |
inkweaver wrote: Ali Al-Saqqa wrote:
I saw the last year's contest, its subject was about literature. The subject was "Business" if I remember correctly - that's why I didn't participate.
If you're talking about the English text, it was a literary text, and it wasn't particularly business-related. It was an exerpt from a humorously written guide to business common sense, and was probably aimed at the general public, as a bit of light reading. What made last year's text difficult was the fact that it was written in 1890, with all that goes with that.
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Our language pair still need 2 (only 2!!!) people to cast votes to announce a winner, but for some reason, we cannot get those two people!
Can't the site moderators help with this ... i.e. send out a memo to persons in those languages once again asking them to vote.
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 23:31
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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| Perhaps a poll is in order | Oct 6, 2010 |
Annabel Koekemoer wrote:
Our language pair still need 2 (only 2!!!) people to cast votes to announce a winner, but for some reason, we cannot get those two people! ... i.e. send out a memo to persons in those languages once again asking them to vote.
Perhaps we can poll the relevant translators to find out why they did not vote. The results may be significant. Edited: I just did that... I e-mailed all 107 eligible voters to ask them why they didn't vote. Let's see if I get any responses.
[Edited at 2010-10-06 15:51 GMT]
| | | | Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 23:31
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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| Result of my small poll | Oct 9, 2010 |
Samuel Murray wrote:
Perhaps we can poll the relevant translators to find out why they did not vote. The results may be significant. Edited: I just did that... I e-mailed all 107 eligible voters to ask them why they didn't vote. Let's see if I get any responses.
I got 13 responses within 12 hours, with 2 more responses two days later. The reasons are:
didn't know about the competition = 9
didn't want to vote for imperfect entries = 1
didn't know that he could vote = 1
isn't a text translator = 1
was too busy = 3
| | | | Ali Alsaqqa
United States
Local time: 17:31
English to Arabic
In popular language pairs, such as English into Arabic, I am sure that having two or more
contests whould jsut be wonderful. There are many many translators so, for sure, there will be many participant and voters for each contest.
I simply can't see the reason for not applying this suggestion, you will have, say, a literature, medical and technical contests. Maybe also an economics one.
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