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Thread poster: Marzieh Izadi
Marzieh Izadi
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Jan 28

Do you sometimes feel that your work has been wasted due to improper revision, for example, the reviser deleted many of your translations and re-translated many parts again. Or that s/he made your translation text worse because s/he introduced accuracy and language errors. When your work undergoes revision, do you always have to worry about the reviser’s failure to spot probable mistranslations/significant errors or the introduction of mistranslations/errors? Overall, what has been your experi... See more
Do you sometimes feel that your work has been wasted due to improper revision, for example, the reviser deleted many of your translations and re-translated many parts again. Or that s/he made your translation text worse because s/he introduced accuracy and language errors. When your work undergoes revision, do you always have to worry about the reviser’s failure to spot probable mistranslations/significant errors or the introduction of mistranslations/errors? Overall, what has been your experience with revising your works by other translators? ▲ Collapse
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
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English to Portuguese
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I don’t know how many of my translations are reviewed/edited, with the exception of two agencies which always send changes to be accepted. In the case of these two agencies, I have been working with the same team and we proofread each other’s work. There have been cases where I have just added a comma or deleted blank spaces between words. I must say also that in the process, I have learned a lot. For what I have been reading here about reviewers/editors/proofreaders I have been very lucky! ... See more
I don’t know how many of my translations are reviewed/edited, with the exception of two agencies which always send changes to be accepted. In the case of these two agencies, I have been working with the same team and we proofread each other’s work. There have been cases where I have just added a comma or deleted blank spaces between words. I must say also that in the process, I have learned a lot. For what I have been reading here about reviewers/editors/proofreaders I have been very lucky! Anyway, translation is not an exact science and we all have preferences… ▲ Collapse


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