It just irritates me to proofread someone else's lousy translation. It's one of the jobs that I always tend to reject.
I am currently proofreading a translation from English into French, and the target text reeks of translation.
I mean come on: even Google Translate would know...
Ah, the perks of working in your PJs :D
In case you still don't know the difference between translators and interpreters, check out the below picture.
[caption id="attachment_1716" align="aligncenter" width="227"] Interpreters Vs Translators[/caption]
On another note, many interpreters are sometimes called translators because, to the client, they are...
One of my LinkedIn contacts once shared the following story and it really resonated with me, as I do a lot of interpretation work while I hold a BA in Translation.
Interpreting in the United States is quite different from what it is here in Lebanon....