Larry Mitchell

Larry Mitchell • commented on a post 6 years ago

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There are many non-native English speakers that grasp syntax. Unfortunately, there are many, many more who do not. I took up a freelance gig last month for a woman who said that all I had to do was proofread and format. This was so not the case. And, because she doesn't know the language, or hasn't mastered it, she thought she had gotten what she paid for from the translator. In fact, I stopped taking proof-read gigs without seeing the entire document first, because this has now happened to me, (get hired to proof, but end up editing and translating,) too times. I've even sent work back with uber-clunky phrasing, grammar, and syntax, because the client assured me that they'd already paid for the translation, and all I needed to do was proof. Your money, I guess... But, yeah. I found it a bit xenophobic at first. On the map. Then I walked in the territory. Now I feel different about it.

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