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Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it? | Yes

Mario Freitas — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 23:29:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it?
Poster: Mario Freitas
Post title: Yes

It has happened a few times. I have also thought of a correct or better translation after delivery. Also very common is to have several documents in the same project. You deliver one or two, and in the next document you understand a term better or find a better translation for it.
In the first case, if only a few hours have elapsed, I send a new version right away. In the second case, I'll send the new version as soon as I find the error, as I'm not going to keep translating it incorrectly in the other documents.

Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it? | I try not to look

Kay Denney — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 18:25:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it?
Poster: Kay Denney
Post title: I try not to look

But if I did see one, I would try to make amends if at all possible.

With one client, my translation comes back to me after their proofreader has looked at it, and I have to approve the corrections. If ever I see room for improvement I will make the changes, and I'll let them know what I've done just in case their proofreader doesn't agree, although they always do.

Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it? | a better (additional) question might be

Maxi Schwarz — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 03:31:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it?
Poster: Maxi Schwarz
Post title: a better (additional) question might be

... What do you do if you found errors in a translation after delivering it. I expect the answer might commonly be: alert the client and supply a correction asap. Or?

Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it? | Me too

Sundar Gopalakrishnan — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 01:18:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it?
Poster: Sundar Gopalakrishnan
Post title: Me too

[quote]Muriel Vasconcellos wrote:

I try not to look! I'd rather not know, but I have found a few over my career. Mostly typos. [/quote]

Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it? | Point in question

Mario Chavez (X) — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 16:42:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it?
Poster: Mario Chavez (X)
Post title: Point in question

[quote]neilmac wrote:

But nothing serious or world-shattering. Sometimes I might think of a better turn of phrase that I could have used, and as most of my clients are direct, I can usually contact them to tweak the offending text, and they can contact me to modify any points they think need changing.
For example, a couple of weeks ago I pointed out some inconsistencies I found in the source text. It later transpired that it had been translated from French into Spanish before being sent to me for translation to English, which was the root of the problem.
Nobody's perfect. [/quote]

Since you also work in my language pair, but in reverse (Spanish to English), I can share this case in point:

A few weeks ago, I translated the following two-line heading:

Extending the Life of Metal
Working and Industrial Fluids

as

Extendemos la vida útil de los metales
Fluidos de trabajo y fluidos industriales

But the client's typo, “metal / working” should have alerted me that it was “metalworking (fluids).” So I updated the flyer with this heading:

Extendemos la vida útil de fluidos para el
mecanizado de piezas metálicas y fluidos industriales

In Spanish, the noun fluid can be fluido or líquido. It's not interlinguistic interference necessarily, as phrases like “mecánica de fluidos” is widely used among the experts.

Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it? | yes but not always

Gehad Feisal — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:43:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it?
Poster: Gehad Feisal
Post title: yes but not always

This happens in most cases when you don't take enough time to revise because of tight deadlines.

Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it? | Me too!

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 10:15:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: Me too!

[quote]Muriel Vasconcellos wrote:

I try not to look! I'd rather not know, but I have found a few over my career. Mostly typos. [/quote]

Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it? | Yes

neilmac — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it?
Poster: neilmac
Post title: Yes

But nothing serious or world-shattering. Sometimes I might think of a better turn of phrase that I could have used, and as most of my clients are direct, I can usually contact them to tweak the offending text, and they can contact me to modify any points they think need changing.
For example, a couple of weeks ago I pointed out some inconsistencies I found in the source text. It later transpired that it had been translated from French into Spanish before being sent to me for translation to English, which was the root of the problem.
Nobody's perfect.

Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it? | It seems that most of us "translators": TRY NOT TO LOOK :-)

Morano El-Kholy — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 09:54:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it?
Poster: Morano El-Kholy
Post title: It seems that most of us "translators": TRY NOT TO LOOK :-)

Me too!

[QUOTE]Muriel Vasconcellos wrote:

I try not to look![/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]Konbaz wrote:

I try not to look too.[/QUOTE]

But, [QUOTE]Mario Chavez wrote:

I'm too self-conscious to answer this question.[/QUOTE]

I think Mario that you have thus already answered the posed question :)

Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it? | Umm

Mario Chavez (X) — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 09:01:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it?
Poster: Mario Chavez (X)
Post title: Umm

I'm too self-conscious to answer this question.

:D

Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it? | .

Rahaf ziad — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 08:54:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it?
Poster: Rahaf ziad
Post title: .

I try not to look too, coz it causes me a huge frustration!

Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it? | Yes

Muriel Vasconcellos (X) — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 08:42:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it?
Poster: Muriel Vasconcellos (X)
Post title: Yes

I try not to look! I'd rather not know, but I have found a few over my career. Mostly typos.

Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it?

ProZ.com Staff — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 08:10:02 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever found errors in a translation after delivering it?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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