Poll: How do you cope with massive changes to your translations? Auteur du fil: ProZ.com Staff
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| | | | neilmac
Espagne
Local time: 01:30
espagnol vers anglais
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I don't think I understand the question.
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It depends! I never had massive changes made to my translations by an editor (I’m not quite sure if that’s what’s meant here). They almost always do some changes, these usually are welcome and I will take them in consideration later on (I work often with the same editors). Two of my clients have the nasty habit of sending incomplete texts (marked to be completed later on). I don’t like it as it’s rather cumbersome, but they pay well and on time…
| | | | Lieven Malaise
Belgique
Local time: 01:30
Membre (2020)
français vers néerlandais
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If there would be "massive" changes to my translation, then I know the reviewer hasn't done his job properly. Luckily I only work with professional clients that act professionally and simply don't allow reviewers to undermine other translators with baseless claims of mistakes being made.
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First, I wait until my initial rage has died down!
Then I check to see whether there is some central misunderstanding or a common theme in the changes.
I take a pride in getting my work right, but I work on texts where style is important - have I understood the client's idea correctly? Are there any improvements that I should accept? I note them in my answer, but these are not so common when the changes are extensive!
There have not been may occasions when anyone... See more First, I wait until my initial rage has died down!
Then I check to see whether there is some central misunderstanding or a common theme in the changes.
I take a pride in getting my work right, but I work on texts where style is important - have I understood the client's idea correctly? Are there any improvements that I should accept? I note them in my answer, but these are not so common when the changes are extensive!
There have not been may occasions when anyone has made extensive changes to my work, but I do not usually accept and adapt.
On one occasion the editor of a magazine complained about the poor English in a text, and I was asked to explain. The supposed translation was not the same text that I had translated, and I sent him my original version. It was far shorter, and the editor apologised! Somewhere down the line, a picture had been removed, and someone was asked to expand the text to fill the space, removing references to the picture. This person had also changed 'confidence' to 'trust', I remember, and altered a couple of other things. I did a quick translation of the longer Danish version, and everyone was happy!
On other occasions my text has been compared to Google Translate, or someone has looked up words in what I call 'the little red dictionary'. (An excellent small dictionary for general purposes, which many people have, but it does not cover technical terms or many idioms.) I may have used a technical term or an expression that is not in the dictionary, which the proofreader may not be familiar with. Or I alter the syntax - often the source syntax is not incorrect, but simply sounds wrong in English.
I usually explain a few main reasons why I prefer to keep my version, but I do not spend time going through them all. I send the client a lightly revised text and tell them to take it or leave it! ▲ Collapse
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neilmac wrote:
I don't think I understand the question.
In keeping with recent polls, I think the only acceptable answer is "I ask ChatGPT what it thinks"
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Nobody has ever made "massive changes" to one of my translations.
| | | | Samuel Murray 
Pays-Bas
Local time: 01:30
Membre (2006)
anglais vers afrikaans
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neilmac wrote:
I don't think I understand the question.
Me neither.
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