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Date of registration: May 31st 2011
Language Team: French
Focus Group: Translator
Translation Proofreader
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Location: France
Tuesday, October 25th 2011, 3:50pm
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Holy Moly! LingTeam! Everybody's been up all night brainstorming! Goooood!Hm... let's see if I can make sense of all the messages?
@gentle jewel: I'm sure we can do a better job directing newbies to the "Guidelines" that you just saw for the first time. Hey, not to mention the "oldbies" need it handy too 'cause all of us can refresh our memories about team decisions regarding rules, etc. I think it's important to remember that like all plans in an RBE, our rules & regs are emerging too. Sweet Nomada and m' Sweet Lord Bru-Bru are always working on new tools that hopefully will make the process easier for us all. Having said that, here we are:
About the hyphens: As I understand it, the use of hyphens to indicate a change of speaker is a convention used by the hearing impaired in subtitles. This is why we have chosen NOT to use hyphens freely in our punctuation of strings. This will be confusing for our hearing impaired population.
About the quotation rule you found: I saw the exact same rule when I was searching for "the latest". Lord Bru? I kinda agree with Gentle Jewel that if we use double quotes for direct quotations and single quotes for words, phrases, or quotes within quotes, this would be "cleaner" in subtitles. (I have to admit my old English professors would cringe at what I just said). Still, in subtitles I think it's important to keep the busyness out of it. Making them clean and concise would be the most important. Maybe others could weigh in on how quotation marks look in subtitles??
@Julie: Hey, there new girlfriend!How nice to see another lady proofer in the mix.
I did the same thing with commas when I began proofing too. Just like Jon, I put commas where ever they needed to be, and I didn't pay any attention to the rule ('cause I didn't know about it actually). Sooooooo, yes we need to do a better idea of telling folks upfront. Maybe we could do something like "special cases" that refer only to subtitling? Hey, that's what "emerging" is all about, right? Looking for better ways to make us the best! Meanwhile, these are good topics for TeamSpeak meetups.
Me? I'm as happy as can be that all this discussion is happening.
Hugs to all you special folks who spread the message to the world!
Praise be to the LTI!--The best is becoming the bestest!
Di
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Date of registration: May 31st 2011
Language Team: French
Focus Group: Translator
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Location: France
Tuesday, October 25th 2011, 3:51pm
Quoted from "gentlejewel"
s nice as it is to hear, I'm not sure why i get a 'way-to-go Julie' - did I miss something in the email communication?
hehe. for the initiative of coming with the brainstorming and sharing pause is already enough
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I thought that it could put a lot of commotion in the teas and cookies room if I'd put the text of my email in there - you don't think so?
yes. I agree that posting this there is enough to spark the discussion and participation from all.
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Why are the results better when you do it in offline mode? Because no-one else can 'interrupt' you then or something?
Not because of that. because while transcribing in that offline tool we have a sound wave graphic where we can click and drag selected areas, to determine from where to where will the subtitle string be created, instead of a play/pause button in dotsub. Also it tells us the amount of characters in the strings and the ratio character/minute, so we know if the strings the way we are building them are resulting in a good/stressed reading time. There is a spellchecker too that will help non-English natives to transcribe more correctly.
I agree with all that you said after about the guidelines, and just by giving your perspective on it it helps understand what newcomers are perceiving and feeling when they get here.
Another thing I would like to share: I am not correcting the English nor taking away comas from the end of strings, as I think they will help the work of the 2nd proofreader when determining if the text is well built. I think that only in the end of everything we should take the comas away. Also if the comas come in the strings when the transcription come to my hands for timeshifting, it will help me determine the good spots to cut the strings(Sometimes speakers go so fast and inarticulated that I dont know which are nouns and which are predicates
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Date of registration: May 31st 2011
Language Team: French
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Location: France
Tuesday, October 25th 2011, 3:51pm
Oh, Gentle Jewel: I forgot to mention the ellipses (...). Traditionally, it simply means something's omitted. I would agree with our LingTeam Guideline to use it only for incomplete sentences. Discussion, anyone?
Date of registration: May 31st 2011
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Location: France
Tuesday, October 25th 2011, 3:53pm
Date of registration: Jun 12th 2011
Language Team: ENGLISH
Focus Group: English Proofreader
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Location: Efland, NC
Tuesday, October 25th 2011, 4:20pm
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Date of registration: Sep 11th 2011
Language Team: English
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Tuesday, October 25th 2011, 8:02pm
... No seriously - I'm so happy (and very pleasantly surprised) that everyone's open to discuss and that I'm not considered a pain in the bum... So, hyphens are conventionally used for showing second speaker to the hearing impaired. I took a look at the google spreadsheet and saw the examples that were shown and indeed - I would have also used brackets in these examples. And how about this example from the Jacque Fresco questions, participation:FROM DI ANNA
About the hyphens: As I understand it, the use of hyphens to indicate a change of speaker is a convention used by the hearing impaired in subtitles. This is why we have chosen NOT to use hyphens freely in our punctuation of strings. This will be confusing for our hearing impaired population.
: This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "gentlejewel" (Oct 25th 2011, 8:26pm) with the following reason: I'm so new to these forum thingy s and the version(s) before was almost impossible to read...
Date of registration: Jun 12th 2011
Language Team: ENGLISH
Focus Group: English Proofreader
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Location: Efland, NC
Tuesday, October 25th 2011, 8:29pm
Well, probably we should if we're gonna apply the scientific method, right? :ponder: I may research that one later! 
And I HAVE researched that one! No, I didn't think it needed a comma anywhere.
Date of registration: Jun 12th 2011
Language Team: ENGLISH
Focus Group: English Proofreader
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Location: Efland, NC
Tuesday, October 25th 2011, 8:35pm
But what about this one (PJ Occupy LA)? I don't believe this could be put in brackets:
Not the rise of a political ideology
but the rise of a defense mechanism
coming from the very fabric of our culture
that sees that something is extremely wrong and very - well, cancerous -
cancerous to society as a whole.
Date of registration: Jun 12th 2011
Language Team: ENGLISH
Focus Group: English Proofreader
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Location: Efland, NC
Tuesday, October 25th 2011, 8:40pm
And my favorite way of using a hyphen is to show emphasis. So what would you suggest for the following?
It's defined by consumption. It's defined by turnover
and we often think that corporations should be held responsible
for their actions because of their abuse of this nature
when in fact, the competitive market model of economics
demands that behavior.
Again - it's structural.
Di 
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