Tłumacze: Martyna Szczepaniak-Woźnikowska i Paweł Woźnikowski

OUR FIRST ENCOUNTERS WITH ENGLISH

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INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH As long-time language learners, we may forget when and how the whole process of language acquisition started (and it may seem like there is no end to it ?). And yet, there must have been a time when we uttered our first words in the second language, and they didn’t have to be “mum” and “dad”. Are you able to track your […]

KNOW YOUR ABC’S IN TECHNICAL TRANSLATION

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Photo by Jonathan Borba on Unsplash If you buy a blender, a washing machine, or a machine with conveyors for wrapping cardboard boxes with heat-shrink film, you’ll get an instruction manual, a user guide, or a similar document. Even though these three devices are radically different, their manuals share similarities, especially in the case of various industrial machinery. If you deal with technical translation, you’ll […]

HOW TO PLACE AN ORDER FOR TRANSLATION – TRANSLATOR’S BRIEF

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This is going to be a very practical text which, as we hope, will facilitate our cooperation with clients. It should prove useful to other translators as well: feel free to use it as a checklist enumerating the particular stages of how to place an order for translation and our process of carrying it out. There’s also a neat as well as our translator’s brief […]

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WHAT DOES THE PRICE FOR TRANSLATION COVER?

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The price of translation – what does it actually cover? In this text, we will refer to the hackneyed saying “time is money” but the reverse is also true: “money is time”. All the tasks which are related to a translation order and take our time must translate into money. The money paid by our clients for translations means that we spent an adequate amount […]

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THE FEATURES OF AGREEMENTS THAT MAKE TRANSLATION EASIER

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Some time ago I wrote a text about the features of technical documentation that make translation easier. As I was writing that post, I realized that I could write a similar article about translation of agreements, terms and conditions, and similar legal texts. TRANSLATION OF AGREEMENTS AND LEGALESE Legal texts are in a way similar to technical documentation. If their writing is sloppy, they become […]

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THE FEATURES OF TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION THAT MAKE TRANSLATION EASIER

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I translate a lot of technical documentation, mainly instruction or installation manuals. Translation of such texts requires some knowledge of the topic in question, skill, attention to detail, and most importantly common sense. Yet even the best translators can go from mildly upset to seething with fury when an instruction manual poses problems and difficulties due to its poor structure and editing. I have decided […]

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THE QUIET JOY OF PROOFREADING

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In our previous text, Paweł gave his answer to the fundamental question – why do we like revision? Today, Martyna will have her say about the joy of proofreading, but from a slightly different perspective. Why do I Iike working with texts? A disclaimer is necessary before I start. Although we have enumerated the strict differences between checking, revising, reviewing, and proofreading in one of […]

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WHY WE LIKE REVISION

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We help others by translating texts, but we’d like to tell you more about some of our other services as well. There are many people who have a text in English or Polish and they’re not interested in translation but they want their text to sound professional. There are many reasons for that: their English is good, but not as proficient as a translator’s, they […]

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HOW TO WORK FROM HOME AND NOT TO GO NUTS

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We planned the text on the upsides and downsides of working from home some months ago, but in the current situation – the world is in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic – we’ve decided to write and publish it sooner and to take these circumstances into account. We hope that you’ll find some useful tips about how to work from home effectively and hassle-free: […]

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QUALITY ASSURANCE IN TRANSLATION

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When a text is sent to be translated, translation itself is only a part of the whole service ordered. Translation may come with revision, review, and proofreading, or any of those can be ordered separately. You may wonder, though, what do these terms mean? They sound near-synonymous, after all. In this article, we clarify this somewhat confusing terminology and describe the particular stages of the […]