RE: How do you ensure the quality of translations?

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Do you have an sample of technical documentation that was translated by
this method? It sounds expensive, time-consuming, and (as Peter pointed
out) not even that accurate.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dossy Shiobara
> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 4:39 PM
> To: Boudreaux, Madelyn (GE Healthcare, consultant)
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: How do you ensure the quality of translations?
> 
> Hire someone else to complete the round-trip of the 
> translation: provide them the translated text, and ask them 
> to translate it into the original language.
> 
> In other words, you need to have two separate translators.  
> You give the first translator the source material and ask 
> them to translate from language X to Y.  You give the second 
> translator the output from the first translator, but ask them 
> to translate from Y to X.
> 
> If the output of the second translator is reasonably close to 
> the original source material, then it's probably reasonable 
> to assume that the translation was faithful.
> 

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