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What is translation memory or TM? Let’s take Fallout 3 as an example. In this game, you collect a bunch of stuff from pretty much everywhere that you put into your endless inventory. And some of the things you might find useful, some of them are pretty much just garbage.
And in a way, that is what a translation memory is. Instead of collecting garbage, you are collecting translations that the translators did for the previous projects. And in some cases, the translations can be reused for new projects because the strings, the sentences and the paragraphs they translated before are occurring again.
So they don’t need to translate from scratch. They just take it from the translation memory and automatically use it for the right string. That’s it.
