Rob Lunn

My two most recent blog posts, on public registers in Spain: buff.ly/3S4Zum0 and buff.ly/46OCoEq

@anglopremier Yes, it's standard English. Though probably different from the "vista oral", which would be the whole trial itself. @ES_ENLegalTrans will know for sure. I've seen "delict" used in translations. Not sure how helpful that is. But if it is the word used in Namibia, it is the word!

@Rob_Lunn Is "oral arguments" a term you wouldn't normally see in an English-speaking country? Reminds me of the Spanish "vista oral". As Namibia is civil law I often come across terms that remind me of French and Spanish legal terms ("delict" is another one used here).

@ES_ENLegalTrans Yes, there are so many it can be hard to know where to start.

@Rob_Lunn Hi, Rob. Glad you found this of interest. There are many other resources out there, these were just the some of the ones I used when starting out as a legal translator.

Some great advice here. Thanks, Rebecca!

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Fantastic paper by Àlex Levin Canal comparing contracts in Spanish and US law: ow.ly/Bzyg50AA8cW. Great resource for legal translators.

@anglopremier @TimG_translator I'd use sitting/standing, but sat/stood is familiar to me --- it sounds non-standard but still authentic and common enough.

@Rob_Lunn @TimG_translator Thanks Rob. Do Aussies always use sitting/standing, or do you also hear sat/stood down under? (Or perhaps I should refer to Australia as "across the water" now...)

@anglais @Claire_Cox16 Retweeting and clarifying. I made it clear from the start that I consciously make sure I avoid the non-standard expression. Same as I consciously avoid "nowt", even though it's part of my spoken English. No need to question my career credentials.

@anglopremier @TimG_translator Tim, your first tweet was perfectly clear. Strange to see how it could be so wrongly misinterpreted.

@TimG_translator Being aware is vital. Which I am. Which is why I object to my ability to translate being questioned simply because I said I "wished" a certain non-standard expression would become standard. It's astonishing that somebody deduced I'm unfit to translate based on those tweets.

@TimG_translator True! Many legal texts I translate are legal at the start and the end and technical in the middle!

@nikki_graham Thanks, Nikki!

@CesarRamrez My pleasure! Hope you're well @CesarRamrez

New blog post: Dilemmas of style that come up when translating legislation into English. #legaltranslation ow.ly/a94150AqqLz

@IntermarkLS @anglais Apparently more words per minute but at around the same infomation rate ohll.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/fulltext/pelle…

@anglais Unless they’re Spaniards? I dunno. Spanish just sounds ultrafast to me.

Translating/writing a radio commercial? Remember that humans comfortably hear and vocalize speech at 150–160 wpm.

@anglais Helpful! Also focusing on the sentence, whole text and meaning rather than the word can keep you out of most traps like this one.

Compter sur: This French verb is a trap waiting to ensnare you. Find out why. bit.ly/2u3Ye9y

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@IntermarkLS @ChrisDurbanFR Depends if it's an after-the-fact or a yet-to-be-used translation. In the 1st case I'd translate and flag. In the 2nd, if the error's obvious, I'd fix it and flag, more than anything to save the client time as they will probably want you to fix it.

@ChrisDurbanFR And then the definition of "Business Day" says that it's a day on which banks are "closed" - apparently they left out the word "not" before "closed" in the source language. Obviously I need to bring this to client's attn, not make it pretty...

David Bellos delivering the Sebald lecture says that we translators err in thinking that writing style in our native language is the main thing. No, knowledge of the source language and culture is just as important if not more. I agree completely!

@TimG_translator Some of this must happen automatically. Like turning the second person into the third or making the verb impersonal to avoid having to use tu or usted in many contexts. This one little thing will surely add wordage. Must be other things like this.

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@anglopremier Looking forward to that.

Hoping to do a blog post soon comparing the two.

After a month using @sdltrados for an institution, I was looking forward to returning to @memoQ_Official, but I'd forgotten how ludicrously slow it is at navigating between segments (slow screen refresh). If they don't fix it soon, I might consider switching to Studio. #xl8 #t9n

@anglopremier @sdltrados @memoQ_Official Interesting! Even without the comparison, I was recently thinking how slow MemoQ confirm felt. Thought it might be the size of the file. I changed from Studio years ago because of better Dragon integration in MQ. Is that better in Studio now?