I am done!

thanks :)

Where did you hear that? It's actually one of the most underpaid academic fields (there are worse jobs to get a degree for, like teachers and social workers, but it's still not really worth much)

Thanks, I was pretty close to almost quitting a few times in that last semester as well (and some people did - I even lost a friend because she just stopped showing up one semester and also stopped answering messages on Facebook etc. from me and some friends. She'd done that the year before, but came back the next semester and even took extra courses to catch up, no idea why she gave up even closer to finishing :( )

Haha, thanks. I already had practical experience due to an internship and I'd done some reading and planning before those 3 weeks (that was just when I finally started writing), so if you start from scratch, I'd recommend 4 or 5 weeks at least ;)
(Also, I'm one of those people who doesn't do rough drafts, I basically write everything the way it's supposed to be in the end, which eliminates a lot of rewriting others do, at least according to some guides on academic writing I read - I just needed to get rid of typos and maybe some clumsy wording after the initial writing)

thanks :) Altogether it was 72 pages, 55 of them actual content :) (the requirements were excluding table of contents, sources, appendix and footnotes)
And thanks being someone who appreciates good translations, most people don't even care (which is okay, but it's nice if some people do)

Thank you, I was very impressed with myself then as well :P (And I don't mean this in a show-off-y way, but more in a "if I can do it, you can, too!" way - even if you're not sure and people tell that it probably won't work out)
And I'm pretty sure I've proven them wrong now :P - I'll never see some of those people again, but if that teacher's still alive for our re-union in a few years, I might get a kick out of seeing her face when she hears about it (or not, if no one asks, I probably won't even say anything).

thanks, and ... okay? ^^"

thank you, and good luck then :)

well, i am not the one you asked, but i answer anyway to cover the computer science and math part :)

a computer will not match a skilled human on translations since you need to extract the intention and meaning out of the context - which is almost impossible to do perfect for a computer. you can get pretty good using lots of statistics and good heuristics, but you will not match a human expert.

thanks :)
And basically what bolzano said - for technical texts, things like manuals and even weather reports, this is already used quite effectively, but as soon as you get to areas with more shaded meanings and more context-dependence, machine translation can only get you so far (depending on the project and tool I use, some suggested translations are exactly what I would have written, or can be used with some minor editing, but usually I ignore the suggestions, since they're just nonsense or close to nonsense). But then these only work after being fed either a big enough corpus of examples or enough rules and vocabulary (or all of that), by humans.
For literature there's obviously no way that they'll ever switch to machine translation only, but even for games and apps (my main fields), it's unlikely - it's already difficult for human translators to deliver good translations with little context. (just think of a HOG where you just get a list of words of things to find, translators always have to ask for screenshots and context and don't always get an answer, but knowing what the game is about they can make educated guesses, machine translation may just go with the first result for a word and move on). Then there's the space aspect - you sometimes have to shorten words or sentences to fit the available space (also for movie/tv subtitles), I doubt computers could ever be able to rephrase those things to make it shorter but preserve the meaning. That being said, I had quite an argument a few years ago with some IT students, who were absolutely sure that it's just a matter of year till human translators are obsolete, and I don't know much about IT, so who knows ...

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or go to the pub with some friends ^^

Thanks! Once you realize how much work you can get done when you have an entire library to yourself, you'll never want to be awake during the day again :P

Thanks! If you ever do go back (maybe for a different subject?), maybe prepare your thesis before you officially start it (that's what I was indirectly told I should've done when my extension was denied, and at a friend's college they all do it because their major requires a lot more research/theory than the other majors their rules were designed for).

thank you :)

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thanks :)

Thanks, Shia ^^

thank you :)

Thanks :)

I wrote about something only a few people wrote about before, so I didn't have that much to read and no data to compare, and I mainly put their findings together and commented on that/added what I could from own experience/ "expert interviews" ^^

Thanks, had to be done XD
Enjoy school while you can, everything after is completely different (for me at least ^^)

Danke, und ja, diese Gewissheit ist echt gut (hab die letzten Wochen schon überlegt, über welches Thema ich schreiben könnte, wenn ich durchgefallen bin und noch mal schreiben muss, bin so froh, dass sich das jetzt erledigt hat :D)

Thanks XD

I know, I actually planned to post it like this last year (grading wasn't supposed to take more than 8 weeks, but it ended up taking more than twice as long), but now it's even more click-bait-y :P

thanks :)

thank you :) It does, but it's also weird because school/uni was such a big part of my life for so long ^^

Thanks! I think it's part of what we did, talk about how to get the same idea across/elicit the same feeling/effect in another language with different options etc.
I wrote about audio localization in video games, i.e. how audio scripts are translated (under what conditions for translators), going into the recording process as well as subtitling practices, and how both of those differ from dubbing and subtitling movie and tv productions (in Germany, at least).

There's also "Gratulation" or "gratuliere" (as a verb), which is closer to "congratulations, although probably used less frequently. I don't know where either of those come from, but I guess you could also interpret "Glückwunsch" to some extent as "congrats on your achievement, good luck for what comes after"?