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S_G_C
Roumanie
Local time: 10:31
anglais vers roumain
a spotless translation of the following
2,500 - 3,000 words
legal - economics field (such as a contract)
from your mother tongue into your best managed foreign language
in 8 hours or less, starting from 2 p.m.?
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1. Spotless translation doesn't exist, just like there are no spotless people or dogs or trees or whatever. Absolute perfection doesn't exist among humans and their work.
2. But yes, I've done that and more.
3. However, most translators can't.
4. Even with a civilized deadline.
5. Or even with all the time in the world.
From the point of view of someone who is both a lawyer and a translator, I c... See more 1. Spotless translation doesn't exist, just like there are no spotless people or dogs or trees or whatever. Absolute perfection doesn't exist among humans and their work.
2. But yes, I've done that and more.
3. However, most translators can't.
4. Even with a civilized deadline.
5. Or even with all the time in the world.
From the point of view of someone who is both a lawyer and a translator, I can tell you legal translation by non-lawyers sadly underdelivers, while most lawyers won't have the language skill to do it right, either. (Not even monolingual writing in their native language.) ▲ Collapse
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I wouldn't translate out of my mother tongue.
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telefpro
Local time: 13:01
portugais vers anglais
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Looks like some intimidating demands on translators
| | | | S_G_C
Roumanie
Local time: 10:31
anglais vers roumain
AUTEUR DU FIL | While here... | Jul 3, 2016 |
telefpro wrote:
Looks like some intimidating demands on translators
They are considered ordinary by some translation agencies in my country.
| | | | | If the client pays well and upon submission | Jul 3, 2016 |
Rule No. 1. in business
Never refuse a contract when it is well paid.
Why?
Because you can always subcontract some of it. By so doing, you gain less rather than gaining nothing.
| | | | | I can not do it myself | Jul 3, 2016 |
Me not, but I can find somebody who will and whose mother language it is.
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S_G_C
Roumanie
Local time: 10:31
anglais vers roumain
AUTEUR DU FIL | No subcontracting | Jul 4, 2016 |
Subcontracting is forbidden.
| | | | Samuel Murray 
Pays-Bas
Local time: 09:31
Membre (2006)
anglais vers afrikaans
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| Subcontracting is/isn't forbidden | Jul 4, 2016 |
Sorana_M. wrote:
Subcontracting is forbidden.
I assume you mean "for this client, subcontracting is forbidden". It's not forbidden in general.
| | | | Balasubramaniam L.
Inde
Local time: 13:01
Membre (2006)
anglais vers hindi
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SITE LOCALIZER | My daily capacity is in that range | Jul 4, 2016 |
I generally am able to translate 2500 to 3000 words a day - a day being generally 8 hours of work. So this would be routine work for me.
I also understand that in many East European countries, it is normal for mother tongue translators to translate into their non-mother-tongue English if they have sufficient command over English.
So this is not something that I would consider weird or undoable. Of course, I would feel much more comfortable if I had more time, but diffic... See more I generally am able to translate 2500 to 3000 words a day - a day being generally 8 hours of work. So this would be routine work for me.
I also understand that in many East European countries, it is normal for mother tongue translators to translate into their non-mother-tongue English if they have sufficient command over English.
So this is not something that I would consider weird or undoable. Of course, I would feel much more comfortable if I had more time, but difficult deadlines would not deter me from picking up such jobs, especially if they are well paid for. ▲ Collapse
| | | | S_G_C
Roumanie
Local time: 10:31
anglais vers roumain
AUTEUR DU FIL
Samuel, that's what I meant, I just put it short.
Now, I do not receive different or better payments when I translate from my mother tongue into a foreign language.
I declined the project, I could not have delivered a translation matching my standards. Time was the only issue, both as time span and as starting hour.
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Robert Rietvelt
Local time: 09:31
Membre (2006)
espagnol vers néerlandais
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| An Einstein can, but....... | Jul 4, 2016 |
.... a normal translator not, that is to say if you want to deliver quality!
And as a advice: 'Translate into you mother tongue'.
[Edited at 2016-07-04 20:07 GMT]
| | | | jyuan_us
États-Unis
Local time: 03:31
Membre (2005)
anglais vers chinois
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| That is absolutely right | Jul 4, 2016 |
Łukasz Gos-Furmankiewicz wrote:
while most lawyers won't have the language skill to do it right, either. (Not even monolingual writing in their native language.)
I remember it took my lawyer (a bilingual English and Chinese lawyer practicing in New York) 8 months to write a less than 200 word job description of the position I was holding, which he needed to include in my immigration petition.
It turned out that he only knew how to write job descriptions for IT people, Double E engineers, librarians, and cooks, etc., because most of the employment-based immigration applicants at that time fell in these job categories. He had a job description template for each of these jobs and he just needed to modify the template a little bit for each applicant. Since he had never written anything that was even close to my job, he just had no hint about how to deal with my case, no matter how hard I explained it to him.
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| | | | S_G_C
Roumanie
Local time: 10:31
anglais vers roumain
AUTEUR DU FIL | In my country... | Jul 5, 2016 |
Robert Rietvelt wrote:
And as a advice: 'Translate into you mother tongue'.
[Edited at 2016-07-04 20:07 GMT]
In my country, it's like Balasubramaniam L. said. We are trained for that, both during high-school and during college.
However, it was the number of words/time relation which bothered me.
[Edited at 2016-07-05 07:05 GMT]
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