I once had a difficult translation assignment from French to English, relating to translating a telecommunications regulation document for the EU. The timeline for completing the project was very tight, and I understood that it would be very difficult to complete the project if I thought conventionally. I did have two nights to do the work (which included about 16 K words in the source language). I had done a lot of translation work in the telecommunications domain before, but from German or Dutch to English. However, I was very familiar with the terminology in English.<\/p>\n
I had an idea then. I reviewed all the target documents that I had in English (those related to all the translations I had done from German and Dutch into English), and had a good night’s sleep. When I woke up in the morning and started working with the French document, I was in for a very pleasant surprise. I already knew all the telecommunications-related terminology in English, although I had never seen the exact same terms in French before, and I proceeded to complete the translation of the document during the day itself. After a brief review the next morning, I sent across the reviewed translation, which was of very standard quality.<\/p>\n
I’m just curious to know if anybody else has had the same type of experiences while translating documents, and, if so, specific details about the same.<\/p>\n
Anyways, enjoy your first week-end in the new year, and the new decade :).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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