From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs as a translator's tool Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:22:14 +0100 Message-ID: <87ilv8hf7t.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <871rn35lqc.fsf@mbork.pl> <87zh9r45ad.fsf@mbork.pl> <87h7vz2m5g.fsf@ebih.ebihd> <87zh9qr67n.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <3DBA2692-28A0-4AC3-B884-78763A9C7B16@traduction-libre.org> <87tuzyr474.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87h7rwtov7.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87pmpriwvk.fsf@mbork.pl> <87k0fz6pkb.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <877dbyjr5a.fsf@laposte.net> <87zgot6ejj.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87czlpi1bh.fsf@mbork.pl> <875yrga5qk.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878rwc5vcc.fsf@zoho.eu> <87zgorgq6a.fsf@mbork.pl> <875yrfaso2.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2088"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 28.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 28 17:22:59 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n2FFZ-0000EU-Nf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:22:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55000 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n2FFX-0006Ac-V3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 11:22:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38268) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n2FF7-0006A5-TU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 11:22:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:34298) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n2FF2-0004O4-Hq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 11:22:28 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CF3E68A2; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:22:18 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9sNffuowwhth; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:22:14 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (79.163.172.196.ipv4.supernova.orange.pl [79.163.172.196]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 66BC9E64C3; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:22:14 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: <875yrfaso2.fsf@zoho.eu> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=195.110.48.8; envelope-from=mbork@mbork.pl; helo=mail.mojserwer.eu X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:135050 Archived-At: On 2021-12-23, at 22:59, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: > Marcin Borkowski wrote: > >> Well, I don't have a translator job, either. And I have >> a friend who is a translator, and it seems this job sucks >> more and more these days... (Easy commissione are gone >> because of Google Translator; rates have been the same for >> about 20 years, not even raised according to inflation...) > > Yeah ... I'm back to running a workshop :) > (4.7M) > > But I would like to have an bookish or analytical work just > once before I leave this world. A full-time translator tho, > oh no. I think even with Emacs a full-blown CAT that > would stink. Well, MUCH less so obviously, but still ... > > Organization skills from Emacs comes handy! Soo easy compared > to what we do every day, but don't tell anyone :) > (411K) > (2.2M) > (2.4M) > > For example ... see the distances between the uprights in the > "triangle-wagon.jpg" photo? They are the same. It doesn't take > a math professional like yourself to know that with static > quantities and a single unknown it's - algebra :) > > But a lot of these guys don't know that. "- How did you do it? - > A folding rule ... - Aaah ..." > >>> Are Poles the only ones ever to beat Russia in a war? >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Warsaw_(1920)) > > Yeah, that's it. > >>> Sweden ... once super-militaristic, armed-to-the-teeth, >>> then and still one of the riches countries in the world LOL >> >> Actually, we also fought Swedes once >> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_(history)). > > I know, I heard it several times! And I have heard young > Polish people blame Sweden even more than Russia for the > _present_ situation in Poland (whatever that is, in their > minds). Because the Russians at least help rebuild and > organize things after WW2, they said. Hard to believe. Russians "helped" with a lot of things after WW2, like killing Polish soldiers not killed earlier by Germans and installing a police state. I don't think rebuilding and organizing were on the list. And blaming Sweded for what we have today is clearly insane. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl