Check out this fun clip from House:
The mother says “tell him I can’t breathe easily”
The daughter then mistranslates.
How do you verify that your translators or interpreters are actually saying what you say.
This is a great illustration of the typical problem.
A quick joke, imagine a conference interpreter saying “he just said a joke which is untranslatable, so please could you all laugh!”
Far and away my most popular article on LinkedIn over the past couple of years, was a quick note about […]
I’m due to give another one of my popular talks on Patent Translation next month. https://www.iti.org.uk/training/events-calendar/starting-out-in-patent-translation.html Here’s the summary from […]
Last December I gave a talk via the ITI regarding technical translation. It was quite interesting to see the questions […]