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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
Local time: 11:15
Lid 2007
English to Portuguese
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N/A Aug 23

In over 40 years only one client has provided me with a style guide! I used to translate a lot for the European Institutions (when they paid a fair rate) and “The Interinstitutional Style Guide” contains all the stylistic rules and conventions which must be used…

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CafeTran Trainer
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Netherlands
Lid 2006
German to Dutch
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Glossaries Aug 23

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:

In over 40 years only one client has provided me with a style guide! I used to translate a lot for the European Institutions (when they paid a fair rate) and “The Interinstitutional Style Guide” contains all the stylistic rules and conventions which must be used…


A little off-topic, but in the same 40+ years, I’ve never received a decent glossary from a client either. So I’ve always had to create my own on the fly.


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Josephine Cassar
Alexandra Speirs
Aisha Maniar
Laura Kingdon
 
Karletto666
Karletto666
Slovenia
Local time: 12:15
English to Slovenian
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strict rules Aug 23

I had a client that gave me 10 pages of rules. O_O

Michael Newton
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M. Anna Kańduła
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United Kingdom
Local time: 11:15
English to Polish
Mistakes in style guides Aug 23

I had a few clients who insisted on something that was blatantly incorrect in the target language.

Josephine Cassar
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