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People should not be able to claim they are native speakers without verification. (Staff: Link)
Thread poster: Susan Welsh
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Daryo
United Kingdom
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Interesting situation ... May 8, 2018

The general consensus seems to be that "nativeness" on its own / in itself is not much of a predictor regarding the quality of the translation, but still "nativeness" is a recurring topic, one guaranteed to generate a "lively" debate! (who said the translation business is boring?)

Why? because clients [ones that care about it] are often NOT in position to know/evaluate if the translation they are paying for is worth anything, especially when when it's a translation in a langu... See more
The general consensus seems to be that "nativeness" on its own / in itself is not much of a predictor regarding the quality of the translation, but still "nativeness" is a recurring topic, one guaranteed to generate a "lively" debate! (who said the translation business is boring?)

Why? because clients [ones that care about it] are often NOT in position to know/evaluate if the translation they are paying for is worth anything, especially when when it's a translation in a language they don't understand, so they start clutching at straws like a seemingly sensible criteria that the translator MUST be translating into his/her "native" language.

The way I see it, a bit (in fact a lot) of "client education" is what is missing. ▲ Collapse
 
jyuan_us
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United States
Local time: 07:47
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English to Chinese
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A thought about the current way of "nativeness" verification May 8, 2018

Some non-native translators are much better at "reading aloud" than their non-native peers, and the former can pass the verification much more easily.
[Edited at 2018-05-08 20:34 GMT]

[Edited at 2018-05-09 05:08 GMT]
 
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