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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Португалия
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Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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Other Jun 11, 2025

What is the question: LST or LSI?

Alex Lichanow
Zea_Mays
Luis M. Sosa
Maria Laura Curzi
Novian Cahyadi (X)
Philip Lees
Siobhán Fulton
 
Alex Lichanow
Alex Lichanow
Германия
Local time: 09:51
English to German
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Ugh Jun 11, 2025

In their endless drive to push through completely unnecessary changes that do not benefit anyone, they can't even think up a new name that fits their new initialism.

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Charlotte Spinetta
Mario Chávez
Lingua 5B
Federica Scaccabarozzi
Luis M. Sosa
Maria Laura Curzi
 
Lieven Malaise
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Бельгия
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LSI Jun 11, 2025

According to Slator LSIs are "organizations whose core offering is to deliver fit-for-purpose multilingual content solutions by integrating language technology and AI with human experts as part of a fully managed solution."

So what's the difference with a regular translation agency then? Don't they all more or less do that?

Alex Lichanow
Sabine Lammersdorf
Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
Federica Scaccabarozzi
Luis M. Sosa
Ona Stankevičiūtė
Novian Cahyadi (X)
 
Alex Lichanow
Alex Lichanow
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Local time: 09:51
English to German
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No difference Jun 11, 2025

Lieven Malaise wrote:

According to Slator LSIs are "organizations whose core offering is to deliver fit-for-purpose multilingual content solutions by integrating language technology and AI with human experts as part of a fully managed solution."

So what's the difference with a regular translation agency then? Don't they all more or less do that?


That's pretty much the whole point: There is no difference. There is just a drive to upend the entire industry for no valid reason whatsoever. Because how could one invest the money one is no longer paying to those pesky human translators better than sticking it into completely nonsensical renaming?

[Edited at 2025-06-11 08:44 GMT]

Lieven Malaise
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Novian Cahyadi (X)
Philip Lees
 
Mario Chávez
Mario Chávez
Америка Құрама Штаттары
Local time: 03:51
English to Spanish
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You know how it is with marketing descriptions Jun 11, 2025

Marketers tend to obfuscate, not enlighten, with their pseudo technical descriptions of new (?) entities. They aren't fooling anyone, except silly investors with money to burn and little sense left in them. Same with crypto currencies.


Lieven Malaise wrote:

According to Slator LSIs are "organizations whose core offering is to deliver fit-for-purpose multilingual content solutions by integrating language technology and AI with human experts as part of a fully managed solution."

So what's the difference with a regular translation agency then? Don't they all more or less do that?


Lingua 5B
Alex Lichanow
Lieven Malaise
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Laura Curzi
Jorge Payan
Novian Cahyadi (X)
 


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