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Five MYTHS about Translatio
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1“Everybody speaks
English now”
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2015 Language Distribution on the World Wide Web
English 25.9%Chinese 20.9%Spanish 7.6%Arabic 5%Portuguese 3.9%Japanese 3.4%Russian 3.1%Malay 2.9%French 2.9%German 2.5%All others 21.8%
Source: www.internetworldstats.com
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2“Just use Google
Translate”
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Google “translates” by matching your text with
translations already existing on the web. If these are
wrong, yours will be wrong.
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3“Just use bilingual
employees”
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Your staff already has plenty to do…Tasks and responsibilities for which they’ve been trained…
Would you want your staffto take on professional work
for which they have no training?
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4“Hire one translator
for everything”
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For any subject: Legal, Medical, Pharma, Engineering, Chemicals, Finance or IT,
a translator needs the
same level of professional knowledge
as the author of the source text.
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5“Any translator can translate ad copy”
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Can copy that took a creative team two months to develop
be translated overnightand retain the same
impact?Not likely.
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Get it right the FIRST time.
Use Professionals.
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