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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 01:47
Lid 2007
English to Portuguese
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Monolingual target-only read for natural flow Aug 3

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
Thayenga
Maria Laura Curzi
 
WolfgangS
WolfgangS
France
Local time: 02:47
English to German
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Yes, but... Aug 3

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
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 01:47
Lid 2007
English to Portuguese
+ ...
I don’t do highly technical stuff! Aug 3

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
Christine Andersen  Identity Verified
Denmark
Local time: 02:47
Lid 2003
Danish to English
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Both check in the CAT tool AND monolingual check Aug 3

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
Oriana W.
Maria Laura Curzi
 
Gregor Trebec
Gregor Trebec
Slovenia
Local time: 02:47
English to Slovenian
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Well... Aug 3

My last step would be proof-reading it twice.
 


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