How to Translate: English Translation Guide in European Union
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The guide include, as annexes, several independent adaptations of the corresponding European Commission works, freely available via the EU Bookshop as PDF and via SetThings.com as EPUB, MOBI (Kindle) and PDF.
For a “smart”, sensible translation , you should forget not the knowledge acquired at school or university, but the corrective standards. Some people want a translation with the touch of the source version, while another people feel that in a successful version we should not be able to guess the original language. We have to realize that both people have right and wrong, and that their only fault is to present requirement as an absolute truth.
Teachers agree at least on this principle: “If a sentence is ambiguous, the translation must also be“.
There is another critical, less easy to argue, based on an Italian phrase with particularly strong wording: “Traduttore, traditore“. This critique argues that any translation will betray the author‘s language, spirit, style … because of the choices on all sides. What to sacrifice, clarity or brevity, if the formula in the text is brief and effective, but impossible to translate into so few words with the exact meaning? One could understand this criticism that it encourages us to read “in the text.” It seems obvious that it is impossible to follow this advice into practice.
About the author
Experience in the domains of engineering, Quality Assurance, electronics and Internet services (translation, web design, Internet marketing, web business solutions).
Owner and manager with MultiMedia
Developer of MultiMedia Network
Partner with MultiMedia in several European and national research and development projects
Project Coordinator for European Teleworking Development Romania (ETD)
Member of Rotary Club Drobeta Turnu Severin Continental
Cofounder of the regional association and president of the Mehedinti Branch of Romanian Association for Electronic Industry and Software
Initiator, cofounder and president of Romanian Association for Telework and Teleactivities
Member of Internet Society
Initiator, cofounder and president of Romanian Teleworking Society
Cofounder and vice-president of the Mehedinti Branch of the General Association of Engineers in Romania
Physicist engineer - Bachelor of Physics, Major Nuclear Physics
Internal auditor for the Quality Management Systems
Specialist in industrial Nondestructive Testing
Attested for Quality Assurance
Hundreds of publications (books, e-books, articles), mainly from the IT domain.
Languages: Romanian, French, English
