Poll: How do you organize your TMs?
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Aug 29, 2014

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I don't Aug 29, 2014

I just have one folder, and in that folder there are a dozen memories for big clients:

Bank 1
Bank 2
Bank 3
etc

Plus three for automating SME accounts:

Danish accounts
Norwegian accounts
Swedish accounts

Plus three mix-n-match memories for other stuff:

Random Danish
Random Norwegian
Random Swedish

I don't organise memories from customers because I refuse to use them.


 
neilmac
neilmac
Шпанија
Local time: 04:12
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Combo Aug 29, 2014

I have client-specific TMs for my regulars, sometimes more than one depending on their business areas. I also have a few more generalist TMs for areas I don't work in so often, for example "furniture".... "legal"... "import-export"....

 
LilianNekipelov
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Соединети Американски Држави
Local time: 22:12
руски на англиски
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I don't use TMs--why would I be using them Aug 29, 2014

if I know 99% of the terms anyhow, or perhaps closer to 100% after I have done a particular translation. It is a total waste of time and computer space. I would never use anybody else's TMs.

 
Yetta Jensen Bogarde
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Данска
Local time: 04:12
Член (2012)
англиски на дански
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By subject Aug 29, 2014

Then by client - plus some individual client TMs

[Edited at 2014-08-29 09:52 GMT]


 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Португалија
Local time: 03:12
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Other Aug 29, 2014

No CATs for me, thank you (even as animals I prefer dogs), but I do have a “translation memory”: the glossaries I have built for my clients + all the translations I have made for them over the years. It’s a bit harder but much more enjoyable for me!

[Edited at 2014-08-29 10:53 GMT]


 
Michael Harris
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Германија
Local time: 04:12
германски на англиски
Other Aug 29, 2014

I only sort them by customer and then by sub-customer and then Month as I always only use up-to-date TMs provided by my customers

 
Al Zaid
Al Zaid
Соединети Американски Држави
англиски на шпански
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It depends... Aug 29, 2014

For some clients, I have dedicated TMs plus one of the two or three I have "by field".
One of my biggest clients hands me documents on draft version that they modify as final and then send it back to me as final to be updated.
For such cases I have TMs organized by project unpolluted by other texts. I may use other TMs, but just for concordance search in case of specific language, e.g. Contracts.


 
Julian Holmes
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Јапонија
Local time: 11:12
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Other Aug 29, 2014

What is this thing 'organization'? And what is 'transcendental meditation'?

Go with the flow, dude


 
Erzsébet Ráczné Czopyk
Erzsébet Ráczné Czopyk
Унгарија
Local time: 04:12
Член (2006)
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no way Aug 29, 2014

There is a wonderful colleague who helps me each time to organize the mess.
And I hate TMs, by the way. They just kill my own thoughts.

[Módosítva: 2014-08-29 17:58 GMT]


 
Jennifer Forbes
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In my brain Aug 30, 2014

My "TMs" are in my brain, which is reasonably well "organised" - and, like Teresa, in the copious glossaries I've compiled over the years, particularly for acronyms.

 


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