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Lingua 5B Bosnia and Herzegovina Local time: 17:55 Member (2009) English to Croatian + ...
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Mar 17, 2011
I guess this relates to proofreading (monolingual), I don't see a translation here.
Funny though
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Rudolf Vedo CT United States Local time: 10:55 Member (2008) Croatian to English + ...
The selection board's reaction...
Mar 17, 2011
reminds me of my own when I was proofreading a translation in which the translator had rendered "prokurist" as "procurer".
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Paul Dixon Brazil Local time: 12:55 Member (2009) Portuguese to English + ...
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Proofreading x Translation
Mar 18, 2011
To Lingua 5B: Yes, I suppose the best title would have been "Proofreading humour" rather than "Translation humour" but of course proofreading is an important part of our job as well.
One error that I have spotted in my own work (always in time fortunately) is "goof" instead of "good" as in "I do a goof job" - the D and the F are too close. Another tricky problem is "not" for "now".
PAUL
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Germaine Canada Local time: 11:55 Member (2005) English to French + ...
Pavlov typing...
Mar 20, 2011
As I worked for consulting engineers for 16 years, I typed zillion times a week the word "entrepreneur", to the point that any word beginning with "entre..." was inexorably receiving the "preneur-backspace/backspace/back..." before any other ending. This reflex continued for years after I had left the last firm.
Now that I have been working with lawyers for more than 15 years, I let you imagine my typing reflexes after godzillions "la présente", "aux présentes", "des présentes" and even more "thereof", "therein", "thereto", "therefor", "thereby", "thereafter"...
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Tomás Cano Binder, CT Spain Local time: 17:55 Member (2005) English to Spanish + ...
Sexist ad?
Mar 20, 2011
Sorry folks, but isn't this ad a bit sexist? I mean that the men are laughing at something which initially is not too funny, and the ad puts the woman in a reaction she would not have, to a situation that would never exist.
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