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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 19:04
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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N/A Apr 20

All of the above!

Jennifer Levey
Josephine Cassar
Maria Laura Curzi
Vera Schoen
Peter Simon
edna escalante
sandra zovko
 
Samuel Murray
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Netherlands
Local time: 20:04
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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Do and don't Apr 20

I usually don't know that the instructions are unclear until after I've accepted the job and try to get started with it. Tight deadlines don't bother me. Low rates are only a deal-breaker if I can't squeeze a profit out of it. I do do PEMT but I don't do MT/AI evaluation (besides, MT/AI evaluation typically doesn't pay enough -- but I suppose I would do MT/AI evaluation if the rate is really, really good, e.g. the upper limit of my hourly rate, paid per actual hour).

Michelle den Boer
Angie Garbarino
 
Lieven Malaise
Lieven Malaise  Identity Verified
Belgium
Local time: 20:04
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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AI annotation Apr 20

I agree on rates with my customers before entering a business relationship, so low rates are never an issue. Bottom-feeders are simply ignored.

In general there are no translation/MTPE/editing/proofreading projects I avoid. In most cases I don't even bother to look at what I'm supposed to translate before I accept the request. I consider everything out of the ordinary to be a challenge towards a new specialization or an improvement of my translation/MTPE skills.

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I agree on rates with my customers before entering a business relationship, so low rates are never an issue. Bottom-feeders are simply ignored.

In general there are no translation/MTPE/editing/proofreading projects I avoid. In most cases I don't even bother to look at what I'm supposed to translate before I accept the request. I consider everything out of the ordinary to be a challenge towards a new specialization or an improvement of my translation/MTPE skills.

I don't have to avoid AI annotation projects because my established customers never offer it to me, but if they would I would decline. I'm only interested in translation/(post-)editing/proofreading.



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Josephine Cassar
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Malta
Local time: 20:04
Member (2012)
English to Maltese
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:

All of the above!

I don't accept certain subjects such as medical stuff or any stuff I don't feel comfortable with for that matter or if I don't like the agency's conditions, NDAs or rates or BB entries even though sometimes they don't mean much. I don't know about the formats before I've translated a bit unfortunately though and in that case, I'll mention that I'll be charging extra for them. I like to know that I'll deliver a job in time and when I've had time to proofread it though and I prefer to steer clear of certain topics I feel strongly about too. And I certainly won't help to train AI either.

[Edited at 2026-04-20 12:51 GMT]

Maria Laura Curzi
 
Josephine Cassar
Josephine Cassar  Identity Verified
Malta
Local time: 20:04
Member (2012)
English to Maltese
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And more.. Apr 20

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:

All of the above!

I don't accept certain subjects such as medical stuff or any stuff I don't feel comfortable with for that matter or if I don't like the agency's conditions, NDAs or rates or BB entries even though sometimes they don't mean much. I don't know about the formats before I've translated a bit unfortunately though and in that case, I'll mention that I'll be charging extra for them. I like to know that I'll deliver a job in time and when I've had time to proofread it though and I prefer to steer clear of certain topics I feel strongly about too. And I definitely won't accept jobs that help train AI.

[Edited at 2026-04-20 12:50 GMT]

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
expressisverbis
expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 19:04
English to Portuguese
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Assignments that are outside my core linguistic work... and... Apr 20

... I’d rather say I know what I DON'T avoid 😄
I’m always open to translation, subtitling, transcreation, terminology, and MTPE.
I’ve also recently completed a subtitling training, a refreshing update on something I already have experience in 🙂!

Maria Laura Curzi
 


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