http://www.jodybyrne.com/1000 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:58:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.jodybyrne.com/1000/comment-page-1#comment-45 Jody Byrne Tue, 12 May 2009 11:35:19 +0000 http://www.jodybyrne.com/?p=1000#comment-45 You're absolutely right Henry but I wonder whether the translator should knowingly participate in this deception? Is it up to the translator to say "hold on a minute there" even if an agency is prepared to pay them twice for what is basically the same task? You’re absolutely right Henry but I wonder whether the translator should knowingly participate in this deception? Is it up to the translator to say “hold on a minute there” even if an agency is prepared to pay them twice for what is basically the same task?

]]> http://www.jodybyrne.com/1000/comment-page-1#comment-43 Henry Grodsk Mon, 11 May 2009 11:28:51 +0000 http://www.jodybyrne.com/?p=1000#comment-43 The customer that asks for a translation and a review is presumably clued in to the difficulty of reviewing one's own work - the snow-blindness you mention - and therefore expects a separate reviewer. It's hardly unethical of a translator to review his or her own work - as you say, we all do it - but for an agency to claim that such work has been both translated and reviewed....? The customer that asks for a translation and a review is presumably clued in to the difficulty of reviewing one’s own work – the snow-blindness you mention – and therefore expects a separate reviewer. It’s hardly unethical of a translator to review his or her own work – as you say, we all do it – but for an agency to claim that such work has been both translated and reviewed….?

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