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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Have you ever delivered a translation in the wrong language?".
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| | | | Mary Worby 
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:40
German to English
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I only translate into one language, my native language, so this is not possible!
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Mary Worby wrote:
I only translate into one language, my native language, so this is not possible!
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Same thing, I only translate into French, that's why I said no, but then I thought that last week I did deliver the file in the wrong language: I delivered the source file instead of the target one
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Doan Quang
Vietnam
Local time: 14:40
Member
English to Vietnamese
I only translate from English into Vietnamese.
| | | | | You're right! | Apr 30, 2016 |
Augusta Habas wrote: Same thing, I only translate into French, that's why I said no, but then I thought that last week I did deliver the file in the wrong language: I delivered the source file instead of the target one
It also happened to me once or twice: delivering the source file instead of the target...
| | | | | Post removed: This post was hidden by a moderator or staff member for the following reason: Requested by user. | Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 08:40
Member (2010)
French to English
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Mary Worby wrote:
I only translate into one language, my native language, so this is not possible!
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| Wrong source language | Apr 30, 2016 |
Like others here, I've never delivered a translation in the wrong language because I translate only into English, my native tongue.
However, PMs occasionally send me source documents in the wrong language - Portuguese or Catalan, for example - presumably because they think it's Spanish. Needless to say, I don't attempt to translate such documents!
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A PM once expected me to deliver in another language.
He sent an excel file which had columns for about 10 different languages in it. Source was English so I searched the column for German, did my translation, returned it to the client.
Got an email back a couple of hours later "Uhm, I noticed you did the German translation even though you were supposed to do the Korean translation. Someone else was in charge of the German translation."
So I just pointed ou... See more A PM once expected me to deliver in another language.
He sent an excel file which had columns for about 10 different languages in it. Source was English so I searched the column for German, did my translation, returned it to the client.
Got an email back a couple of hours later "Uhm, I noticed you did the German translation even though you were supposed to do the Korean translation. Someone else was in charge of the German translation."
So I just pointed out that I've never ever translated into Korean before, neither for this company (we've been working together for the past 5 years), nor for anyone else and that even though the company's PMs had asked me several times, I had said no every single time.
Didn't hear back from the PM, invoiced the job at the end of the month, received my money and it was never mentioned again. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Michael Harris
Germany
Local time: 09:40
Member (2006)
German to English
Teresa Borges wrote: Mary Worby wrote:
I only translate into one language, my native language, so this is not possible!
| | | | | No, but I've delivered the wrong file | Apr 30, 2016 |
More than once I've delivered a draft, thinking it was my final translation. Now I always check. I make a note of the most recent change I made, then I prepare my submission, attach/upload the file, open it, check to make sure it contains the change.
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Katrin Bosse (X)
Germany
Local time: 09:40
Dutch to German
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| Same here, as well! | Apr 30, 2016 |
Mary Worby wrote:
I only translate into one language, my native language, so this is not possible!
| | | | EvaVer (X)
Local time: 09:40
Czech to French
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for a direct client who sometimes wants their internal documents in French, sometimes in English. Fortunately, it was not long, 1-2 pages.
| | | | Paul Dixon
Brazil
Local time: 04:40
Portuguese to English
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I have never delivered a translation in the wrong language, but what I have done is received a translation for ES>EN instead of PT>EN and did the translation (PT and ES are quite similar and the text was perfectly understandable, no false cognates or technical words) when I should have sent it back for reallocation, as ES>EN is not one of my language pairs.
[Edited at 2016-04-30 15:17 GMT]
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