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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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2007 থেকে সদস্য
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Monolingual target-only read for natural flow 08:32

My "last" step is reading aloud the printed copy, then I may have few or many edits to make. After that, I hit "send'...

Christine Andersen
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WolfgangS
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Yes, but... 09:19

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:

My "last" step is reading aloud the printed copy, then I may have few or many edits to make. After that, I hit "send'...


185 pages of highly technical stuff?
I run XBench twice with spellchecker and all.
Reread the whole file segment by segment again and that's it.
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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পর্তুগাল
Local time: 18:24
2007 থেকে সদস্য
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I don’t do highly technical stuff! 11:33

WolfgangS wrote:

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:

My "last" step is reading aloud the printed copy, then I may have few or many edits to make. After that, I hit "send'...


185 pages of highly technical stuff?
I run XBench twice with spellchecker and all.
Reread the whole file segment by segment again and that's it.


I did translate some technical stuff at the very beginning of my career, but soon discovered that it is not my cup of tea...
 
Christine Andersen
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Local time: 19:24
2003 থেকে সদস্য
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Both check in the CAT tool AND monolingual check 12:50

I do not hit 'deliver' until I have done both.

If I am madly pressed for time, then the bilingual check for accuracy is probably the most important, but I am not happy until I have done the mechanical check and the final monolingual check as well!

Luis M. Sosa
 


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