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New IT terms in non-English languages (pt-br specially): how to deal with it?
Thread poster: Manu Magalhães
Manu Magalhães
Manu Magalhães
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:46
English to Portuguese
May 15, 2012

I'm a new eng/pt-br translator and I'm working with lots of IT texts.

It's usual for me to receive text with brand-new terminology and no previous reference about it on TMs nor on termbases.

My question is: how do you work with it? Is there any reference site besides IATE and Microsoft where we can find the most frequent terminology of the industry in non-English languages for certain brand new IT terms? IATE uses european portuguese, which helps me but not all the ti... See more
I'm a new eng/pt-br translator and I'm working with lots of IT texts.

It's usual for me to receive text with brand-new terminology and no previous reference about it on TMs nor on termbases.

My question is: how do you work with it? Is there any reference site besides IATE and Microsoft where we can find the most frequent terminology of the industry in non-English languages for certain brand new IT terms? IATE uses european portuguese, which helps me but not all the time.

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