> You can be translator or not,6 teacher or not, writer or not...there is no
> concept of native French.
> Except for the Japanese.
>

Well, I would say that "native French" is the French spoken in France and
not in Canada, Senegal, or some other countries. Mexican Spanish isn't
exactly what the Spaniards use, and Swiss or Austrian German isn't what most
people in Germany expect.And the Portuguese will constantly complain when
getting translations done by professional Bazilian translators. The big
money is made in Brazil, therefore these complaints go unheeded...


> > However, car body parts are about the most difficult stuff to translate
in
> > the automotive field. I should know after being in this business for 22
> > years.
>
> Because you translate from Engrish.
> Now I understand you were not even sure "front mask" existed...
>

The Japanese text used 'front mask' also. Right, this term was not familiar,
but as it turned out (thanks to Google's special functions) it is used by
major manufacturers (Japanese and foreign). Anyway, there are four
established expressions which mean the same.




> > These manuals come once every 3 years. They are either written in
Japanese
> > by engineers who have their own jargon or can't write... or they are
> > translated into incomprehensible Engrish by anybody who has nothing to
do
> > and passed the 2nd TOIC test!
>
> I have seen that sort of litterature. Rewriting them completely would take
> less time.
>


Some of them can't be rewritten if you don't know what the writer wanted to
say. Retranslation is often the only way.




>
> Like everybody. I often think of how a friend illustrated that sort of
> situation :
>
> There is the guy that goes to a garage and asks square wheels for his car.
> If the garagist refuses, he'll go to see another one. But if he gets his
> square wheels, he'll go to tell everyone "Look at what that idiot garagist
> made to my car !"
>


That's a good one! Will frame it and hang it over my bed... oops, I mean
futon!


Sigi



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