Re: How do you ensure the quality of translations?

[Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>]

This is all right if the technical terminology has been correctly 
captured beforehand. If both translators work from a single technical 
dictionary that's broken (for example Verteilung => spreading and 
spreading => Verteilung -- [Verteilung often means distribution when 
used mathematically; spreading is another possible meaning] then you'll 
not detect the error.

Dossy Shiobara wrote:
> 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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