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| Off topic | Happy New Year! | | Happy New Year to all our colleagues at
Proz.com!
May the year 2012 bring greater
opportunities for all! | Quamrul Islam | Dec 31, 2011 | | Hindi | स्वतंत्रता दिवस की बधाइयाँ और शुभकामनाएं ! | | आज 15 अगस्त भारत का
स्वतंत्रता दिवस
है, और स्वतंत्रता
दिवस के अवसर पर
हम� | Quamrul Islam | Aug 15, 2011 | | Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you think CAT tools improve the quality of translations? | Never! | No, sometimes it's the other way round. I mean,
CAT tools may deteriorate the quality of
translators' work by spoiling their creativity and
diversity. The only thing CAT tools do is that | Quamrul Islam | Feb 5, 2011 | | Off topic | Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!! | | Merry Christmas
and a
Happy Holiday Season
to all our colleagues
at Proz.com
!!!
শুভ বড়দিন !
-
Quamrul
[Edited at 2010-12-24 07:45 GMT] | Quamrul Islam | Dec 24, 2010 | | ProZ.com translation industry wiki | Free Software for Translators | Downloading free dictionaries! | Hello Ms Arzayus,
Well, good quality free
downloadable dictionaries on a number of languages
including Spanish are available
from:
http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/d
ictio | Quamrul Islam | Dec 19, 2010 | | Bengali | ভারতীয়রা নিজেদের ফোরামের আলোচনায় এতটা passive কেন? | ধন্যবাদ! ভারতীয়রা নয়, বাংলাভাষীরা... | প্রিয় সুমিত
বাবু,
আপনার
সুচিন্তিত মতামত ও
জিজ্ঞাসার জন্য
ধন্যবাদ। তব� | Quamrul Islam | Sep 9, 2010 | | General technical issues | How to disable the touch pad | Here's how you can disable the touch pad | Dear Colleague,
Well, I use the Alps Pointing
Device, but my OS is Windows XP.
In my case, I
right click the Touch pad icon near the clock in
the bottom-right corner of the screen, then | Quamrul Islam | Jun 24, 2010 | | Linguistic diversity | International Mother Language Day !!! | | আন্তর্জাতিক
মাতৃভাষা দিবস সারা
পৃথিবীর মানুষের
নিজ মাতৃভাষায় কথা
বল� | Quamrul Islam | Feb 20, 2010 | | Bengali | ওয়ার্ডে বাংলায় র্যাকেট লিখতে পারা যাবে কিভাবে? | I was also unable to write it that way ! | Dear Sumit,
I should not have advised if I had
previously known that the method would not work at
all. Sorry for the inconvenience. But the matter
is of course one of grave concern: why s | Quamrul Islam | Feb 7, 2010 | | Bengali | ওয়ার্ডে বাংলায় র্যাকেট লিখতে পারা যাবে কিভাবে? | Which software do you use please? | Well, the answer would depend on the type of
software you use for writing Bengali.
If I
suppose that you use Avro, and if typing 'r'
followed by 'y' and 'a' does not produce
র্ | Quamrul Islam | Feb 6, 2010 | | Bengali | CAT tool memoQ ইংরাজি < > বাংলা অনুবাদের কাজে ব্যাবহার করা যায় কি? | CAT tools have little use for Indian languages | Well, it's not clear why some of the CAT tools do
not support major Indian languages.
However,
personally I don't support the use of CAT tools
for Indian languages. They may be useful for | Quamrul Islam | Jan 25, 2010 | | Off topic | MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! | Thanks and Happy Holidays to everyone !!! | Thanks and Happy Holidays to everyone who have
commented and also to those who are reading them
!!!
Here are some probable greetings in my
working languages:
Bangla (Bengali):
Mer | Quamrul Islam | Dec 24, 2009 | | Off topic | MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! | | Merry Christmas to all my friends and colleagues
at Proz.com !!!
Wish you all a wonderful
celebration and Christmas holidays !!!
Also, the
new year 2010 is just knocking at the door. So, | Quamrul Islam | Dec 24, 2009 | | Bengali | PAYPAL FROM BANGLADESH... | There's an alternative as well!! | Yes, you can sign up for a Moneybookers account,
which operates in the same way as PayPal. To sign
up, visit: www.moneybookers.com, and you'll need
to have:
- a valid mailing address (whi | Quamrul Islam | Dec 24, 2009 | | Hindi | हिंदी यूनीकोड में टाइप करते समय / ! ? वगैरह टाइप करना | कुछ और भी तरिके हैं | नमस्कार,
चोपड़ा जी,
जिसे आप कोलन समझ
रहे हैं वह दरअसल
हिन्दी भाषा का
‘व� | Quamrul Islam | Dec 5, 2009 | | Money matters | should quotations be based on source text or translated text? | It depends ! | Well, payment on the basis of source text
word-count is the most usual practice.
But if
you get scanned documents for translation and the
client does not give you the word-count, it woul | Quamrul Islam | Nov 2, 2009 | | Hindi | दीपावली और धन-तेरस की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं! | Happy Diwali to all my colleagues and friends !! | Diwali or Deepavali has in recent times become a
global celebration, not confined to people in
India only. The festival not only celebrates Lord
Rama's triumphant homecoming after his vict | Quamrul Islam | Oct 16, 2009 | | Machine Translation (MT) | Understanding Google translate? | It's always so funny and unpredictable ! | Yes, Google translation is funny most of the time
because it's unpredictable. For a simple test,
once I gave the input : हिन्दी
लिखना कितना आसान
| Quamrul Islam | Oct 15, 2009 | | ProZ.com technical support | Have any of you experienced a delay in receiving emails from the site? | Yes, I am also experiencing the same problem! | Thanks Sara, for raising the issue.
I am also
experiencing the same problem for the past few
days, and in my case the delay is more than 2/3
hours. What is even worse, I am completely mis | Quamrul Islam | Oct 14, 2009 | | Business issues | Steps before accepting a freelance jobs and receiving payments | Thanks for sharing !!! | Thanks very much Mr. Shanidev for sharing your
course of action. Freelancers may be doing the
same all around, but differences do occur. For
example, in many cases, invoices cannot be sent | Quamrul Islam | Oct 13, 2009 | | Money matters | The bottom of the translation market | An unhealthy practice indeed! | These agencies offering such a scanty figure are
encouraging an unhealthy competition of
under-qualified people (so called translators),
whose qualifications are well understood from any | Quamrul Islam | Oct 9, 2009 | | Money matters | PayPal tariffs | In some countries, MB is the only choice ! | Well, I haven't yet had any chance to compare the
two. PayPal offers no service for my country
(Bangladesh), and it's Moneybookers that rescued
me in times of need. It offers its services | Quamrul Islam | Oct 9, 2009 | | Hindi | अभियांत्रिकी विषय में अनुवाद करते समय किन शब्दों का लिप्यांतरण किया जाए � | Thanks Mr Rawal ! | Thanks very much Mr Rawal for the well-suited
explanation. I hope the guidelines would help many
people/translators in their writings. | Quamrul Islam | Oct 2, 2009 | | ProZ.com technical support | Can I have two native languages? | Yes, you can... | Hello Paul,
Well, it's quite possible for a
person to have more than one native language. If
you feel more at home with a language other than
your first one, then I think you should claim | Quamrul Islam | Sep 18, 2009 | | Translation Theory and Practice | Bilingualism and Translation | Experience and practice make up a good translator | Becoming a good translator requires a great deal
of efforts, experience and practice. One must have
a passion for language if he/she wants to qualify
as a good translator. Simply being bil | Quamrul Islam | Sep 13, 2009 | | Hindi | Machine Translation | Does not seem to be practical. | हिन्दी फ़ोरम के
हिसाब से मुझे यह
जवाब हिन्दी में
लिखना चाहिए था।
लेकिन | Quamrul Islam | Sep 10, 2009 | | CAT Tools Technical Help | Google Translate and confidentiality | I agree with you. | Hello Samuel,
I completely agree with your
arguments that Google should have no interest in
collecting arbitrary source texts along with its
own machine translation. However, I have a
| Quamrul Islam | Sep 10, 2009 | | Being independent | The translators' world, a world of the lonesome ? | Thanks for raising the point - We are not alone !!! | Thanks for raising such an important point. It is
true that modern day translators have to spend a
lot of their time in front of the computer that
has become a vital tool for them. But thi | Quamrul Islam | Aug 4, 2009 | | Hardware | Laptop v netbook, advice , please. | Laptop, not netbook, should be a better choice !! | It's true that netbooks are gaining popularity
very rapidly, especially among the youngsters. But
I believe laptops can be a portable replacement
for a full-fledged desktop computer, ready | Quamrul Islam | Jul 26, 2009 | | Linguistics | What are the easiest and the most difficult languages in the world? | May be Dutch is the most difficult ! | Yes, may be the most difficult languages are the
Germanic ones, especially Dutch. On the other
extreme, I have found Malay among the easiest
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