Monday, March 15, 2010

6 Translation questions

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Based on an idea by Pippa Sandford. Pippa is a French & Italian to English medical translator with more than 25 years of experience in translation.
Thanks Pippa!

6 comments.:

  1. Thank you, thank you for bringing some humor to translation! I have especially enjoyed your strips with the direct client (I think his name is Bill), they are classic!!
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  2. Right on! Nice to have a colleage who can cheer up our days... Keep on the good work :)
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  3. Thank you for the cartoons, I love them. You should write something about clients who come back with "suggestions". I had one client who actually came back with an email that started:
    "We've had a group discussion in the office and we think the translation should actually be..."

    It was a ministry, I was tempted to write back saying: "Thank you, I also have some suggestions about your policies on"
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  4. Thank you very much, Anonymous translator and Laura!

    Gorka, that's an excellent idea, I'm more than tempted to use it.
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  5. This one might be our favorite thus far; thank you! Also love Gorka's anecdote about the "translation group discussion," which would be analogous to us discussing a company's subject matter which we don't know anything about.
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  6. ¡“The cheapest quotation marks”! jajajajajaja
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