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Re: How do you ensure the quality of translations?
Subject:Re: How do you ensure the quality of translations? From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:17:39 -0700
Given the expense of good technical translation, I can't imagine that
happens very often.
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Dossy Shiobara<dossy -at- panoptic -dot- com> wrote:
> Hire someone else to complete the round-trip of the translation: provide
> them the translated text, and ask them to translate it into the original
> language.
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