And apologies for not replying to your DM but I am rushing out again in a mo and think we’ve covered it all here!
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Ps nice to ‘see’ you again!
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Noted - I will change future titles and put my CTAs, etc. in the text.
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I know, my mental health is pretty fragile at the mo. Anyway it’s been sorted so that’s good 
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Noted
I’m not going to comment any more, I feel attacked and it’s setting off my anxiety.
Sorry - whether to allow commercial posts has needed a bit of a sort out for a while so some good has come of your post if we’ve moved a but closer to working out how it should work.
Good luck.
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I use DeepL or ChatGPT for a rough first pass, especially when I’m trying to understand a long email, but I wouldn’t trust the output blindly for contracts, tax forms, or anything where one word can change the meaning. French formality and regional wording can also trip these tools up.
A Hybrid translation workflow works best for me: let software handle the volume, then have a qualified translator check tone, context, and specialist terminology. Keeping a shared glossary or translation memory helps too, particularly when the same phrases appear across multiple documents.
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I use a CAT tool but MTPE is now the norm.
I recently did the MTPE for 65k-worder and the AI increasingly hallucinated. By the end it was copywriting not translating; leaving out vital stuff, randomly adding things.
I asked my client that next time she split it into smaller sections and keep repeating/refining the prompt as by the end I was retranslating from scratch at half my ‘human translation’ rate.
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