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Oh, OK Tantine, I didn´t know there´s such saying... Thanx.

Hi

I just wondered, is your nick pronounced "cheesa" or Keesa or...?

Bises
Tantine

Hi, it´s pronounced like see-saah (like it would be pronounced in Spanish).

Wow Tantine, so we haven't got the same way to rate a translation, when a translation is correct from a short text I give a 7 rating, when it is pretty good I give an 8 rating, when it's very good I give a 9 rating, and when it is perfect "de chez" perfect, then I give a 10...

For longer texts my rating uses to be a little higher with the same criteria.

At the beginning of my expert job, I didn't give any rating, then I based myself on what I read from Chantal, who was more ancient than I on the site, and because I think it is a fair way to rate translations. I think that if you give a 10 very easily, translators' skills would be overestimated.

I had a message today from turkishmiss, and she was wondering why her average rating was getting lower (3,5!) although she got many translations validated with 7-8 rating, and I never gave her any low rating...

I must say that I don't understand what happened. I'll ask JP about this point, because it seems there is a problem somehere...

I agree with Francky on the rating scale. I only give a 10 for a translation that is perfect and requires no edits. As soon as I have to start editing (and I think you're right, Cisa, that we English experts have the most translations to validate), the rating goes down. If I understand the meaning, but it would take me more than five minutes to edit it, I usually reject it.

Francky wrote "turkishmiss [...] was wondering why her average rating was getting lower (3,5!)". On her profile I see the low rating is for translations into Turkish, of which she has few (hence the word Turkish is so small) and it seems a lot of them were rejected. I think the problem is not her Turkish but rather her knowledge of those source languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian... Translators need a very large vocabulary and control of grammar...in each language.

I learned this the hard way. Spanish is my best foreign language, the one I use most often, but my Cucumis rating for Spanish is my lowest. That is because I try sometimes to translate into Spanish, not just from Spanish into my primary language (English).

Actually, the problem IS her knowledge of Turkish. She's not a native speaker. I've had many conversations with her about how to express things in Turkish. Her Turkish is definitely lower level than mine, and I'm not a native speaker either. I'm sure she would confirm that.

Yes, sure, she would, no doubt about it. But what she told me is that she didn't understand, as she did only short translations, which were validated . I had a look and found out she had 14 validated translations, 4 waiting to be evaluated, and 2 rejected.

Porfyhr has accepted to become latin expert
And Cisa will also be our slovak expert until we find a native one.

Thanks to both of you and good luck

Thanks JP!! At last I can really be an expert! I have more than 52 Slovak translations to evaluate...

I'm only away for one month, and look how many new experts we have! Welcome to you all . I'm really lucky to have Martijn actually, he did a lot of evaluations while I was away.

JP, enjoy your holiday! I'm sure we can manage without you for a few weeks .

jp just came back from holiday, too, Chantal.

I'm slow lol .

Congratulations Cisa and Porfyhr, and welcome back Chantal!

I've already said welcome to Porfyhr in PVT (just with 'poor guy' and 'good look'). I hope he can put order in that Latin mess.

Good luck for double duty also for Cisa!

Thanks

Welcome Cisa! It seems you know Chinese.

I wish I could, Pluiepoco! I just know some Kanji/Hanzi thanks to Japanese. But maybe at University I´ll study Sinology, so...

And welcome to aquila_trans our new and first korean expert. It's a long time we were witing for you. Welcome and good luck

Very welcome aquila_trans!

(could anyone tell me how to see Korean signs in Mozilla Firefox