I also wanted to talk about an issue I had about this translation : how to translate the title. The English title is : How to tune alpine skis It is actually pretty clear; the title introduces a question "How to..." while the document will "answer" this...
Lire la suiteA few days ago, I received an email from my teacher : "Chers étudiants, j'ai reçu un message de mon ami Bruce Maylath. La partie figurant ci-dessous vous concernait. The last suggestion listed came after the videoconference ended as the last students...
Lire la suiteWhen rereading my last modifications, I noticed that I forgot to translate the notes in the "citations" part. It was not too hard, since it was only the name of the various materials that was used during the whole tuning process. I only had to look back...
Lire la suiteToday, my american coworker send me his final version of the instruction guide. This version had been corrected by his technical writing teacher. Most of the issues were about phrase mechanics, punctuation, spelling and grammatical phrasing. The teacher...
Lire la suiteSince I've finished my translation, I decided to send the final version to my american coworker before I send it to my teacher. I'm going to ask him to tell me about the global readability of my work, since I had several layout differences problems when...
Lire la suiteI sent my translation to one of my family member, expert on alpine skiing, so that he told me what his thoughts were about the document. Since he knows a lot about the subject and about its specific vocabulary, it was a good way to make sure the terms...
Lire la suiteI finished translating the ski parts schema. Some terms don't appear in the actual instruction guide, but most of them do. It is actually a good thing in order to help people visualizing the different parts of their skis, even apart from the instruction...
Lire la suiteToday, I worked on the layout of my translation. I wanted it to look clean and nice, so that the viewer find it easy and enjoyable to read. Doing the layout of the various images was proved to be rather difficult, since my co-worker and I don't use the...
Lire la suiteIn english, the terms used to describe some of the materials speak for themselves, so that the reader don't need specific knowledge about skiing to understand them. Take for instance ski iron or base cleaner...However, the official french translation...
Lire la suiteIn a first instance, I've been re-reading my translation. My main problem about it was how I translated the introduction. The register of language was a bit off. The introduction was written only so that the reader can understand how necessary ski tuning...
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