The flag says you are wrong, but if you listen to it, you will break the game. Why a remake turns a correct terminology flag into a trap, and how to spot it.
The Flag Is Right. Nobody Knows Which Way to Fix It.
Right everywhere, wrong here: the third state a glossary term needs
A glossary term can be correct everywhere and wrong in one sentence. Until now the only ways out were deleting the term or switching off every check in the segment. Both are worse than the problem.
Terminology Just Got a Brain (And It’s Yours to Command)
Let’s be real: glossaries are the unsung heroes of translation, and also its biggest pain in the neck. You’ve got a 200-term list, a translator who swears they followed it, and a client who just flagged three “mistakes” that aren’t even in the glossary. Cue the headache. That’s why we…
Faster Than You Can Say ‘Termbase’: Cattitude Breaks Its Own Speed Limits
Imagine this: you’re waiting in line at the DMV, watching paint dry, listening to the soothing symphony of an old dot-matrix printer, and thinking, “Surely, nothing in life could be slower than this.” Well, congratulations, because until recently, Cattitude’s term-matching algorithm could give the DMV a run for its money—if…
RegEx: Unleash your pattern-nal instincts!
We previously discussed the enormously powerful Search & Replace feature of Cattitude, which allows you to search and replace terms and sentences in multiple translation memories and terminology databases simultaneously in one go. Now this feature has become even more powerful with the introduction of RegEx, a search pattern language…
Adding two birds with one stone
Game translators and technical translators know it: almost every file has them… the parts in the source text that list every possible part of the car or item in the game. Not the most fascinating part of the text, but one of the most important parts, as this is the…
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
This is actually a grammatically correct sentence in English. If it baffles you: a semantically equivalent form preserving the original word order is: “Buffalo bison that other Buffalo bison bully also bully Buffalo bison.” Buffalo (capitalized) is a place in America, so Buffalo bison means bison from Buffalo. Another example….
The gift that keeps on giving
There’s a lot of buzz around ChatGPT. Most people, including myself, don’t even want to hear the word anymore. Gurus pop up everywhere, claiming they are experts and charging thousands of euros for teaching you how to “talk” to this language model. “Prompt engineering”, they call it. Many of these…
Seek, and you will find
Cattitude has just released a new feature that is set to make the lives of its users much easier. This new feature allows users to show the most recent entries in their translation memories and then enables them to narrow these entries down per file. This means that users can…
Term-inal velocity
It’s quite an honor for Cattitude to be compared to tools like memoQ and SDL Trados Studio, especially if you realize that the latter products are being made by huge companies with access to tons of resources, while Cattitude is basically a one-man show. And that show is run by…