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Thread poster: Cindy Martin
Cindy Martin
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France
Local time: 17:28
Member (2013)
English to French
Mar 26, 2019

Hello,

I've worked on many revision/proofreading jobs these last few years, but I sometimes struggle to find the right words in English to comment on the quality of a translation.

Do you know where I could find a kind of checklist, or even a book about this, that would explain the main "errors" that can be made when translating (things like barbarism, sentences being "burdensome", etc.)?

Thank you,

Cindy
 
Elif Baykara Narbay
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Türkiye
Local time: 18:28
German to Turkish
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That book: Mar 26, 2019

I believe that this book has quite a lot of information, possibly also on the terminology itself.

I cannot be sure though because it is on my books-to-buy list since a couple of years but still not in my library
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I believe that this book has quite a lot of information, possibly also on the terminology itself.

I cannot be sure though because it is on my books-to-buy list since a couple of years but still not in my library

https://www.amazon.com/Revising-Translators-Translation-Practices-Explained/dp/1909485012 ▲ Collapse
 


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