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Steve Rawcliffe

Hi,

A client has sent me a Dutch text for translation into English, with the occasional paragraph already in English. Actually, it's Dunglish, so I will be editing it, heavily, in addition to translating the rest of the text nl>en.

The Dunglish sections aren't in separate columns -- they take the form of paragraphs inserted at various points throughout the document in a well-meaning attempt to save my time. [They aren't going to save the client any money, 'cos I'm going to charge for them as for translation!]

All the options I have come up with are unsatisfactory, so I was hoping someone has a brilliant suggestion.

The options I have though of so far are:

  1. Copy source to target for those sentences that are in Dunglish, then edit them. Problem: This will "pollute" my nl>en TM with TUs that are Dunglish to English, rather than Dutch to English.
  2. Leave the Dunglish segments untranslated and choose not to export them to the main TM at the end. Then edit them in the Word doc generated by Studio. Problem: While this avoids polluting my TM with Dunglish, it does mean that if I make any changes to the translation and re-generate the English doc, I'll have to re-insert the edited English.
  3. Delete the Dunglish passages before opening the Word doc in Studio. Problem: Same as above -- once I insert the edited English passages, I'll have to re-insert them if I update the translation and re-generate the target doc.

I can't be the first translator ever to encounter this problem. How have others resolved it?

 

All the best,

 

Steve
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    You might have to treat Dunglish as a language and start a TM with Dunglish-English, otherwise you will not be able to update translations.
    Work with both NL-EN TM and DD(Denglish)-EN (Choose some arcane English or Dutch variant which you will never use apart from this). Set NL to "update".
    Exclude Dunglish from translation in the first step by defining a style in Word "Dunglish" and set this style as non-translatable. Next step define all styles but "Dunglish" as non-translatable, import again, set DD-EN to "update".

    How did I resolve this? I educated and convinced those who provide source material that it is not a help to partially translate a document. If they don't use CAT tools, this is not obvious to them.
    Daniel
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    You might have to treat Dunglish as a language and start a TM with Dunglish-English, otherwise you will not be able to update translations.
    Work with both NL-EN TM and DD(Denglish)-EN (Choose some arcane English or Dutch variant which you will never use apart from this). Set NL to "update".
    Exclude Dunglish from translation in the first step by defining a style in Word "Dunglish" and set this style as non-translatable. Next step define all styles but "Dunglish" as non-translatable, import again, set DD-EN to "update".

    How did I resolve this? I educated and convinced those who provide source material that it is not a help to partially translate a document. If they don't use CAT tools, this is not obvious to them.
    Daniel
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