What Don’t We Want!
If you a manager, a proofreader, a translator or something else in the translation world, then there is one thing we need to know: No one actually wants a translation. I means, when do you ever get up in the morning and ask: ‘I will have two pieces of engineering, four sheets of accountancy and half a dozen marriages, please.”? Here in the translation industry it is a common belief that other people do want translations, even desire translations, and that anyone who wants translations must also want translators. But look at it this way: any industry that makes its way from a cottage to the city divides its specialists by function. So we end up with design engineers, electrical engineers, development engineers, power engineers, powertrain engineers, system engineers… can you see the trend here? Instead we classify translators by the languages they have studied or any subject, with success based on a translation dictionary they have used without client complaints. What ...
