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Poll: What type of project do you usually avoid?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
পর্তুগাল
Local time: 17:39
2007 থেকে সদস্য
‍ইংরেজি থেকে পর্তুগিজ
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N/A Apr 20

All of the above!

Jennifer Levey
Josephine Cassar
Maria Laura Curzi
Vera Schoen
Peter Simon
edna escalante
sandra zovko
 
Samuel Murray
Samuel Murray  Identity Verified
নেদারল্যান্ড
Local time: 18:39
2006 থেকে সদস্য
‍ইংরেজি থেকে আফ্রিকানস
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Do and don't Apr 20

I usually don't know that the instructions are unclear until after I've accepted the job and try to get started with it. Tight deadlines don't bother me. Low rates are only a deal-breaker if I can't squeeze a profit out of it. I do do PEMT but I don't do MT/AI evaluation (besides, MT/AI evaluation typically doesn't pay enough -- but I suppose I would do MT/AI evaluation if the rate is really, really good, e.g. the upper limit of my hourly rate, paid per actual hour).

Michelle den Boer
Angie Garbarino
 
Lieven Malaise
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বেলজিয়াম
Local time: 18:39
2020 থেকে সদস্য
ফেঞ্চ/ফরাসি থেকে ডাচ
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AI annotation Apr 20

I agree on rates with my customers before entering a business relationship, so low rates are never an issue. Bottom-feeders are simply ignored.

In general there are no translation/MTPE/editing/proofreading projects I avoid. In most cases I don't even bother to look at what I'm supposed to translate before I accept the request. I consider everything out of the ordinary to be a challenge towards a new specialization or an improvement of my translation/MTPE skills.

I don't... See more
I agree on rates with my customers before entering a business relationship, so low rates are never an issue. Bottom-feeders are simply ignored.

In general there are no translation/MTPE/editing/proofreading projects I avoid. In most cases I don't even bother to look at what I'm supposed to translate before I accept the request. I consider everything out of the ordinary to be a challenge towards a new specialization or an improvement of my translation/MTPE skills.

I don't have to avoid AI annotation projects because my established customers never offer it to me, but if they would I would decline. I'm only interested in translation/(post-)editing/proofreading.



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Josephine Cassar
Josephine Cassar  Identity Verified
মাল্টা
Local time: 18:39
2012 থেকে সদস্য
‍ইংরেজি থেকে মালটেসে
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:

All of the above!

I don't accept certain subjects such as medical stuff or any stuff I don't feel comfortable with for that matter or if I don't like the agency's conditions, NDAs or rates or BB entries even though sometimes they don't mean much. I don't know about the formats before I've translated a bit unfortunately though and in that case, I'll mention that I'll be charging extra for them. I like to know that I'll deliver a job in time and when I've had time to proofread it though and I prefer to steer clear of certain topics I feel strongly about too. And I certainly won't help to train AI either.

[Edited at 2026-04-20 12:51 GMT]

Maria Laura Curzi
 
Josephine Cassar
Josephine Cassar  Identity Verified
মাল্টা
Local time: 18:39
2012 থেকে সদস্য
‍ইংরেজি থেকে মালটেসে
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And more.. Apr 20

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:

All of the above!

I don't accept certain subjects such as medical stuff or any stuff I don't feel comfortable with for that matter or if I don't like the agency's conditions, NDAs or rates or BB entries even though sometimes they don't mean much. I don't know about the formats before I've translated a bit unfortunately though and in that case, I'll mention that I'll be charging extra for them. I like to know that I'll deliver a job in time and when I've had time to proofread it though and I prefer to steer clear of certain topics I feel strongly about too. And I definitely won't accept jobs that help train AI.

[Edited at 2026-04-20 12:50 GMT]

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
expressisverbis
expressisverbis
পর্তুগাল
Local time: 17:39
‍ইংরেজি থেকে পর্তুগিজ
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Assignments that are outside my core linguistic work... and... Apr 20

... I’d rather say I know what I DON'T avoid 😄
I’m always open to translation, subtitling, transcreation, terminology, and MTPE.
I’ve also recently completed a subtitling training, a refreshing update on something I already have experience in 🙂!

Maria Laura Curzi
 


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