localiseme.blogspot.com.es - Localisation and testing with Curri

Example domain paragraphs

Imagine you have just been given a quite interesting project with a quite high volume of words . You have a look at the text and it seems that it won’t be too difficult , so you decide to accept it. As soon as the assignment is confirmed , you start working on it . When you have been translating for a while, you start seeing strange things in the source text , which, at some places, they are close to incomprehensible . What can you do?:

1. Report to the agency/client that the original text needs to be proofread.

It will probably not convince them, but, at least you cover your own back : if the source text is not good enough, it is likely that our translations would be good either (even though it could happen, of course). If the source is a translation from another language and the client has not even bothered to pay for a proofreader to double check the translation , there is not much we can do; just let the client know that the text is not of the expected quality and that we would probably have issues translating

Links to localiseme.blogspot.com.es (4)