Document Translation Quality

Subject: Document Translation Quality
From: "Richard Melanson" <rmelanson -at- spirecorp -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:57:42 -0500

May I please ask for advice or assistance. My group currently writes
user manuals for solar equipment. Believe it or not, translating our
documents has just come onto our plate. We have two or three translation
house we use fairly regularly, but I have a question. How do we
determine the actually quality of the translations we are getting. We do
not have access to persons who first language is what we are translating
to. Thank you for any advice you guys can give me.
Rick

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