What additional fields of expertise should be available in the ProZ.com lists? Thread poster: Henry Dotterer
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Hi all,
Member Josephine Cassar has asked: "Can you add more [specialty] fields that are relevant today please? I suggest EU, international affairs for starters but there might be others..."
I like the suggestion and agree that it may be time to update the list. Our procedure for updating the list will include more than just gathering suggestions. We would give more weight to the fields people are writing in in practice, for example in KudoZ questions. ("ophthalmology" ... See more Hi all,
Member Josephine Cassar has asked: "Can you add more [specialty] fields that are relevant today please? I suggest EU, international affairs for starters but there might be others..."
I like the suggestion and agree that it may be time to update the list. Our procedure for updating the list will include more than just gathering suggestions. We would give more weight to the fields people are writing in in practice, for example in KudoZ questions. ("ophthalmology" and "clinical trials", to take two, are fields that have been written in by a number of people.) Jobs are another place where fields are sometimes written in.
It may also be that there are fields that are largely unused, that can be removed. (We have the data to figure that out.)
That said, suggestions will of course help. So I'd like to put this thread up for a while and see what comes in. Please help by suggesting fields you have looked for and missed in the ProZ.com lists. We may or may not add them, depending on whether there is usage data to suggest they are needed by a certain number of people. (There is a tradeoff and it would be counterproductive to have thousands of fields.)
Jospehine started with:
- EU
- International affairs
Anyone else? ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Great that you ask! | Jun 5, 2013 |
That's great. I was actually going to ask for more legal fields to be added. 
For starters, the work of sworn or court translators and interpreters has a lot to do with criminal law, which is haaardly general. In fact, it's quite a niche rather. Personally, I'm a criminal law scholar apart from being a translator, so I have a bit of a personal stake in this. Some of the sample translations I have in my profile involve... See more That's great. I was actually going to ask for more legal fields to be added.
For starters, the work of sworn or court translators and interpreters has a lot to do with criminal law, which is haaardly general. In fact, it's quite a niche rather. Personally, I'm a criminal law scholar apart from being a translator, so I have a bit of a personal stake in this. Some of the sample translations I have in my profile involve criminal law, too.
At least some of the following would also be good to have:
– admin law (gov't agencies but not really gov't/politics or pure admin)
– litigation (comes forth the plaintiff by his attorney here present yadda yadda)
– public procurement (especially for EU folks; I've translated boatloads of this stuff)
– legal theory (law reviews, advanced opinions, memos on points of law etc.)
– EU Law (and the ability to produce comitologically correct translations in conformity with 1,000,000 previously translated directives and 5,000,000 tangentially related search results from 20 official EU databases).
Now, I'd like to see law firm marketing as an area, but I guess it would then seem fair to include like 20 other areas of marketing, so perhaps not really. Law firms maybe? Law culture? Example:
Sue is all that her name promises you. She played with aligators as a child and now eats live scorpions for breakfast. She only settles pro se cases where she is the defendant and would need to show her tax returns to a jury of her peers. After her third stroke, she slowed down at the insistence of her doctor (and long-term client) and is now only turning in 120 hour weeks instead of the firm's average of 160, but as a founding partner we believe she has earned that right.
While at it, I would rename 'Contract(s)' to 'Contracts'. No need to reflect the singular really (even for theoretical works on contract law).
Also, I struggle a bit with realty, construction and quite a bunch of other fields I've added as working fields due to the fact that they're often the subject-matter of the contracts and other legal work I translate (e.g. realty, construction, HR, insurance), although I'm not really that enthusiastic about translating non-legal texts from those fields. Perhaps other than traditional legal disciplines it would be a good idea to include fields of legal practice?
Next, I don't think advertising and PR really belong together. Both are social engineering, essentially, but there's a world of difference between a press release and a real ad. I tend to have similar thoughts about marketing and market research. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | | | More areas within the metallurgical field | Jun 6, 2013 |
Right now this category is limited to Metallurgy/Casting. I would suggest adding Metallurgy/Forging, Metallurgy/Extrusion and Metallurgy/Rolling.
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| One more thing: gaming and casino | Jun 6, 2013 |
Could you be persuaded to separate video gaming from casino? There really isn't that much in common, especially if you consider, say, baccarat or roulette in a casino versus something like Call of Duty or Neverwinter Nights (or Europa Universalis or Panzer General etc.).
| | | | | Thanks for the link, David | Jun 6, 2013 |
Thanks, David. I should have checked previous forum discussions. (I also should have checked in with Jared.)
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I asked for "horticulture" recently, but they declined to add it (I can't remember the reason). There's a question in German-English today ("O'pflanzt is") that should be classified as horticulture in my opinion.
| | | | Michele Fauble 
United States
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Member (2006)
Norwegian to English
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| Surveys/Questionnaires | Jun 6, 2013 |
Surveys/Questionnaires.
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| You beat me to it! | Jun 6, 2013 |
Łukasz Gos-Furmankiewicz wrote:
Could you be persuaded to separate video gaming from casino? There really isn't that much in common, especially if you consider, say, baccarat or roulette in a casino versus something like Call of Duty or Neverwinter Nights (or Europa Universalis or Panzer General etc.).
I entered this forum just to make this suggestion!
Video game translation/localization is an area that's growing very quickly and desperately needs more qualified translators. I think it's an amazing field to work in and love the challenge of it, but there's a huge difference between casino gaming and video games, as Łukasz already pointed out.
(I like the new Neverwinter Nights MMORPG a lot, but I'm still holding out for the new Elders Scrolls.)
| | | | | gaming and casino | May 6, 2023 |
Łukasz Gos-Furmankiewicz wrote:
Could you be persuaded to separate video gaming from casino? There really isn't that much in common, especially if you consider, say, baccarat or roulette in a casino versus something like Call of Duty or Neverwinter Nights (or Europa Universalis or Panzer General etc.). Naturally, these are two different directions in games and in general in entertainment.
| | | | MarianRossi
Argentina
Local time: 18:04
English to Spanish
| More areas related to biology | May 10, 2023 |
Hello, I would suggest adding paleontology or paleobiology.
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