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15:58 Aug 9, 2016 

Yes. Thanks. I did contact her. That is probably what she meant. I am not sure that she was English as some of her emails were a bit odd, but her name was Englsh, so it is difficult to tell if there was something "Lost in translation", but all sent in now.

14:36 Aug 9, 2016 

I agree that without superpowers or mind-reading skills, it is of course quite impossible to guarantee that what you produce will be identical to some mythical English original. In fact, if some English version does exist, and if that is what they want, then they would appear to be asking for a back-translation... and probably of some machine translation source. You have my sympathy, especially if this is a long job.

It sounds like your client is expecting miracles and/or not providing you with the whole story. Either that or the client actually meant "as if it had been iitially written in English". That would make sens, particularly with what follows :"not just word by word translation".
In any event, you can only do the best with what has been provided, which does look like machine translation. I think you should not hesitate to contact the client to clarify what he/she thinks the original means.

20:06 Aug 8, 2016 

I did say something to her. She seemed more concerned with the regular sort of hot-words for these websites being used I think. But I did tell her I would not be able to make it identical to what another translator would have done.

19:09 Aug 8, 2016 

I don't think it is fair of your client to expect you to do this...
In your position, I would insist on "proper" French first and make it clear that I cannot guarantee that the translation will be identical to the original English.

18:55 Aug 8, 2016 

Yes, it is very difficult. As you have seen!

14:43 Aug 8, 2016 

to produce the original English (as initially written) using a back translation into French??? This text doesn't look like natural French to me (and I am not a native FR-speaker)

13:40 Aug 8, 2016 

I have a feeling this is a back-translation from an old website that was in English. The client originally said to me:

"Please note, that translation should be produced as it was initially written in English, not just word by word translation."

13:32 Aug 8, 2016 

"PRIVÉE COMPTE BANCAIRE: : faite confiance aux praticiens"
looks like machine translation from an other language and "entreprise compte bancaire" above has an explanation that should rather match "compte bancare d'entreprise"?