Tag: quality assurance

  • Working With a Translator: When the Project Manager Checks Out

    Working With a Translator: When the Project Manager Checks Out

    Part of the series “Working With a Translator: A Guide for Clients” You send your files to the agency.You get translations back.Some are fine. Some are… strangely flat. Some cause problems three months later when a parent complains, or a donor queries a sentence in your report. On paper, there’s…

  • Between Home and Elsewhere: Domestication and foreignization in translation

    Between Home and Elsewhere: Domestication and foreignization in translation

    Every translator knows the feeling: you hit a sentence and think, Do I make this sound like it was written here, or do I let it sound like it travelled? For EN–FR translators, project managers and revisers, that question  is where readability, ethics, and cultural risk collide. That tension sits…