Because of this lack of proper translation, Peter Argondizzo, Argo Translation’s President and Operations Manager , has decided to extend a free, certified employee application and work place safety checklist translated into Spanish to all manufacturing facilities that may need it to better serve their Spanish-speaking employees. The form is also available in an English version so Human Resource professionals can verify exactly what the employee is reading.

Argondizzo says, “After hearing from many prospective clients about the lack of proper translation in the manufacturing industry, we decided something needed to be done to solve at least a small portion of the problem. The forms we have translated can be used by anyone in the industry to better serve Spanish-speaking employees with confidence.” Argondizzo continues, “We realize that this is a small step in the right direction but we hope this initiative causes some momentum with other projects we are pursuing in partnership with local organizations.”

To obtain a free copy of these translated documents and to view the English version, please visit the Argo Translation website at http://www.argotrans.com/resources/hr-resources/

First you should navigate to the progress window in the crossView window on the left hand side of the screen.

Progress view in crossWeb

Next you hit refresh on your browser or F5. That will display your progress in the file.

Refresh browser

• By hitting Ctrl and (+) or Ctrl and (-) you can zoom in and zoom out of the whole browser window.
• You can go to full Screen mode (F11).
• Under the view menu you can also get rid of toolbars you don’t use to free up space at the top. If you uncheck Status bar it frees up a bit of space at the bottom of the screen.
• By toggling the three icons for visualizing different windows you can hide or show various windows in the application.

View Full Screen

Toggle Windows

The search and replace feature can be found on the toolbar of icons located above the two column view in the crossWeb editor as shown in the screen shot below.

The ability for linguists to easily query the proper translation of a localized software term as defined by Microsoft improves the usability of software documentation and third party applications that integrate with Microsoft products. The bottom line is this should prevent or at least help to prevent improperly referenced software terms in third party applications. Nothing is more annoying to an end user when you refer to a specific path for an option like:

In order to print the configuration settings, choose File>Print>Configuration Settings.

and then the end user discovers that two out of the three software terms don’t even exist or are improperly referenced by using different terms!

This happens quite often in translated documentation when the linguist has little to no access to the proper software list.

Jost Zetsche, author of The Tool Kit newsletter did a great job of explaining the history of the access to the glossaries, the current state of the glossary access as well as explaining how other resources or online glossaries use the data from Microsoft.

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Bottom Line: Quick turnaround and working under pressure is not a problem for the folks at Argo.

The new ad copy used the word “save” (as in save money on this offer) and that was the only new word required to change a previously translated phrase. The employee decided to use the Italian word “Salvare”. When the ad was reviewed in country it was flat out rejected because of the headline.  Salvare is indeed a valid entry in a definition of save however it means rescue or save someone or something from a catastrophe. The proper term would have been “risparmiare”.

This type of error is known as a false cognate. Machine translation tools and people with no formal translation training or education often make this type of error.One of my personal favorites in Italian is the word for Factory. Fattoria which sounds much like factory is actually the proper word for a farm. A factory is a fabrica.

This is a simple example of how having a good resource like a dictionary and some previously approved text does not make you a qualified translator. The mistake outlined above could have easily been avoided by having the change reviewed by a qualified translation provider.

1. Right click on the field or phrase you are trying to edit. The fields are typically in a green box.

2. A menu will appear and you should choose Edit field…. This will bring up the following screen.

3.You can now replace the source text for the Text to and Screen tip fields. Do not change the text in the Web page name field.
4. Click Apply and you have successfully updated the text.

Open the crossTerm window

The window opens on the right side of your Across screen.

Activate the filter

The following window will appear for choosing your filter settings.

In the Search filter window , choose Server s> Local Server > Across attributes > Term level > Relations.

The Relation is the Client. Choose the appropriate client from the drop down list.

Choose OK to set these filters. The window will close.

If you are on a segment that has no entry in crossTerm, ‘No results found’ will appear in the crossTerm window.

If you are on a segment that has an entry in crossTerm, the term will appear with a red bar over the top.

In the example below, the term ‘Food’ is in crossTerm. The client would like us to use ‘Alimento’.

You can choose apply translation, or just retype.