Poll: I would welcome a dictionairy in the following field:
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Other Apr 22

I don’t translate any of these subject matters. I translate mostly EU affairs and IATE + Eur-Lex are excellent sources. Anyway, I have a lot of dictionaries (for a good while I couldn’t enter a bookstore without buying a new dictionary) that sit proudly on the shelf near my desk. Call me old-fashioned if you will but I love the smell of paper and the experience of thumbing through a dictionary…

expressisverbis
Luis M. Sosa
Agnes Fatrai
tabor
Annika Thornton
 
expressisverbis
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Other Apr 22

Like Teresa, I don't translate in those areas either.
My expertise areas are legal, medical and automotive, as well as marketing and tourism.
I already use paper and online dictionaries, as well as other useful resources, but... probably, I would welcome a dictionary specifically focused on all idiomatic expressions known in my language pairs.

P.S.: It's a harmless typo, but it would be good to correct the poll: "I would welcome a *dictionairy* in the following field:"


Barbara Carrara
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Peter Simon
 
Nicole Manker
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French法语译成English英语
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Performing Arts and Popular Trends Apr 23

I would love a dictionary that covers the performing arts. For instance, there are terms in theater, music, and dance that were adopted at specific intervals in specific languages and need not be translated.

Also, I think having a dictionary that captures popular trends and their accompanying colloquial phrases. Popular trends tend to have short lives and may not be captured adequately through social media posts alone. This would require more regular updates, to capture as much as
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I would love a dictionary that covers the performing arts. For instance, there are terms in theater, music, and dance that were adopted at specific intervals in specific languages and need not be translated.

Also, I think having a dictionary that captures popular trends and their accompanying colloquial phrases. Popular trends tend to have short lives and may not be captured adequately through social media posts alone. This would require more regular updates, to capture as much as possible and note where such trends are prevalent and timeframes for their popularity, existence, or the like.
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Kevin Fulton
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Bosch comprehensive automotive dictionary Apr 23

When I was doing mainly automotive-related translations, I would have loved to have had Bosch's comprehensive in-house automotive dictionary which was used to produce their English-language Automotive Handbook. They published a couple of editions of Fachwörterbuch Kraftfahrzeugtechnik, but these volumes were at best rudimentary.
They briefly issued a bilingual CD of the Automotive Handbook which was useful, but it no longer ran on Windows 7, if I recall correctly.


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Philip Lees
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Muphry Apr 23

I would welcome a dictionary in which the word "dictionary" was spelled correctly.

Andrei Albu
Barbara Carrara
Ester Vidal
Dan Lucas
Francesca Grandinetti
Alex Lichanow
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Alex Lichanow
Alex Lichanow
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Corporate language Apr 23

I am actually really fine using online dictionaries/platforms such as dict.cc or linguee.com and I haven't used an honest-to-god printed dictionary in over 10 years, but I would actually go for a corporate language one, especially if it comes with useful translations of empty corporate buzzwords and phrases (if there can even be such a thing).

expressisverbis
 
Lol Apr 23

It makes me laugh, the idea of wanting dictionaries in specific fields.

There aren’t even any decent general dictionaries in two of my languages, and why would a pro translator need a dictionary anyway?


Anton Konashenok
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Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
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Tip Apr 23

Kevin Fulton wrote:

They briefly issued a bilingual CD of the Automotive Handbook which was useful, but it no longer ran on Windows 7, if I recall correctly.


This tip is probably too late, but you can virtualize old versions of Windows using virtualization software such as VirtualBox.


Edith van der Have
 
writeaway
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Apr 23

Removed by poster - too off-topic

[Edited at 2024-04-23 11:05 GMT]


 
Alexandra Speirs
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farm and forestry equipment Apr 23

A dictionary of farm and forestry equipment would be useful, but I doubt if I would really buy one.
I often have texts involving tractors and their accessories and I usually manage to find what I want.
This week I had one on forestry equipment and that was more complicated, requiring a lot of googling.
A nice reliable online glossary would suffice.


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Zea_Mays
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English英语译成German德语
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dog speak : human language Apr 23

Seriously.

As for existing terminology data bases in multiple languages, I think most of you know IATE: https://iate.europa.eu


 


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