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The Crucial Problems of Translation
The Crucial Problems of Translation
Pages 16-18
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Kurt Gingold, President of the American Translators Association: There is no absolute correlation between cost and quality. There are some excellent translators who charge moderate rates.
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Of 2,258 scientists responding to a questionnaire concerning translated Soviet journals, 1,407 commented on lag time of publication; 24.5 percent of the comments were to the effect that lag time should be reduced (American Use of Translated Soviet Scientific Journals, a user study prepared by the Syracuse University Research Institute for the National Science Foundation and available from the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Report No.
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Machines are probably inappropriate for some forms of translations, such as very high-quality diplomatic translation and literary translation. But translations of scientific material can be done with or without machine aids.
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