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Apples and oranges Dec 19, 2017

Sheila Wilson wrote:

Mario Chavez wrote:
market realities often take us to be bidirectional in our translations. And I'm not talking about current market realities. Translation bidirectionality has existed since men and women started to translate.

Any translator worth their salt will know, or quickly learn, how and when to say no to clients. Whatever the "market reality" might be, the "individual reality" is that nobody can force you to do anything you don't want to do, and certainly shouldn't be able to force you to do things you don't think you can do well enough. Of course it's good to expand your horizons and do things tomorrow that you couldn't do yesterday, but just because a state of affairs exists doesn't make it right for each and every translator.


Bidirectionality in translation is a time-honored practice. Of course, it happens (or it is needed) more in some places than in others. I wasn't talking about saying yes when I should say no, or whether someone is forcing me to do something I'm not qualified for. I was talking about bidirectionality.
 
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