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[rant]why do english/chinese companies don't give a damn about other languages..
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blacksheeplogic:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on March 12, 2020, 11:31:57 pm ---I wish you hadn't said editor in that it has activated my ex-editor gene - which means I was forced to notice every literal, grammatical error and mis-phrasing in those two short paragraphs. Painful. And let me be clear, yours is far from the worst English I've seen that needed beating into shape to make it publication ready. (The worst was probably a lawyer who used to write a computer law column for the magazine I was a section editor on.) I'm not picking on you, honestly, I'm underlining your point about needing an editor.

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Trust me, I'm well aware of my need for an editor. Just be glad you were not reviewing my first draft of a chapter. I never put my hand up to write - nobody did, it was always an assigned task.
Cerebus:

--- Quote from: Domagoj T on March 12, 2020, 11:35:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: Cerebus on March 12, 2020, 11:31:57 pm ---I was forced to notice every literal, grammatical error and mis-phrasing in those two short paragraphs.
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And even you missed a couple.

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Truthfully, if I'd really been his editor I would have probably gone for a re-write rather than pick out the errors for correction.

What's genuinely frustrating is that 'blue-pencil' markup:



 intended for feeding back editorial corrections to a typographer or writer, is strictly rooted in the paper age. There's only a much weaker set of conventions for use in computer based editing - for instance, you can't easily mark something up as "swap these words, this way". Editing paper galleys I could do a page a minute, doing the same thing on a screen takes five times longer.
SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: JPortici on September 21, 2016, 11:13:10 am ---.. but offer translated versions of their website/documentation anyway?
why can't you pay a professional to translate your website instead of relying on google translate?

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Because websites change frequently. Keeping all translations up to date is close to impossible, or would require full-time translators in some cases.
Documentation itself evolves a lot less frequently.

Try this yourself and you'll see.
Domagoj T:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on March 13, 2020, 12:06:56 am ---Editing paper galleys I could do a page a minute, doing the same thing on a screen takes five times longer.

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Is that because of lack of software/tools/file formats or is the medium itself the issue? A bit off topic, but I'm thinking about e-ink readers. Those things have fairly decent note taking capabilities. Wouldn't that work pretty much like physical paper?
Cerebus:

--- Quote from: Domagoj T on March 13, 2020, 11:23:52 am ---
--- Quote from: Cerebus on March 13, 2020, 12:06:56 am ---Editing paper galleys I could do a page a minute, doing the same thing on a screen takes five times longer.

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Is that because of lack of software/tools/file formats or is the medium itself the issue? A bit off topic, but I'm thinking about e-ink readers. Those things have fairly decent note taking capabilities. Wouldn't that work pretty much like physical paper?

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If you could draw on it like paper and pass it back to the production desk, then yes, it would be as quick. It's things that are trivial to mark on paper but take time if you have to position a cursor, select, type, copy paste etc. that are the problem. Moreover, in something like magazine production you're marking up for the sub-editors - you don't want to be doing the actual editing yourself because it breaks up the subs workflow. There's a couple of hundred years of experience that optimised the standard workflow, which remains pretty much the same as it did even if the sub-editors are using computers instead of paper and the art/layout people are using computers instead of traditional methods. There are very tightly integrated electronic workflows available for newspapers, but nothing quite as slick for magazines which are typically much more variable issue to issue than newspapers are.
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