How should a translation company approach a high-volume project? And what is the most ethical response to a client that insists that it needs an extremely high volume of material translated in an unrealistically short time?
A bad translation is good when the quality requirement is low and does not justify the cost of high-quality translation.
In Japan, with its huge Japanese‑to‑English translation market, the caveat that a translator should only translate into his or her own native language goes largely ignored, and a huge volume of Japanese material ends up being translated by native speakers of Japanese—often with dire results.
Management guru Peter Drucker famously wrote, “a business enterprise has two—and only two—basic functions: mar …
Computers are not capable of actually comprehending language in any real sense.
