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Adjusted word counts due to contractions
Автор темы: Jeff Whittaker
Jeff Whittaker
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Feb 14, 2004

I just read this on sci.lang.translation. I do not translate into French, so this never occured to me. Does anyone do this with French or other languages?:

"One French translator always included a calculation and an explanation of why the word count was incorrect because it
doesn't count the sequence l' (l, apostrophe) as a word"

ex. l'enfer = 2 words (le + enfer).



[Edited at 2004-02-14 08:56]
 
Harry Bornemann
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Local time: 06:28
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L'enfer Feb 14, 2004

Jeff Whittaker wrote:
...Does anyone do this with French or other languages?...
C'est l'enfer, n'est-ce pas ?

I analyzed this sentence in an RTF file giving the results below:
Word: 5 words
Trados: 8 words
Déjà Vu: 8 words

Another reason to use CAT tools

BTW, I don't think this is off topic.

[Edited at 2004-02-14 10:14]
 


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