Poll: What is your non-negotiable step before hitting "Send" on a final delivery?
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Aug 3

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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Local time: 15:15
წევრი (2007)
ინგლისური -> პორტუგალური
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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
Philip Lees
 
WolfgangS
WolfgangS
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Local time: 16:15
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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
პორტუგალია
Local time: 15:15
წევრი (2007)
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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
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Local time: 16:15
წევრი (2003)
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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
expressisverbis
 
Karletto666
Karletto666
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Well... Aug 3

My last step would be proof-reading it twice.

 


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