翻译公司规模与自由译者的关系

jyuan_us wrote:

不完全在于你的译文。在说话、沟通过程中就能判断一个人是否考谱。我在判断一个人时，看他的发言、知识、判断能力、决断能力等等。在这些方面站得住脚，客户一下子就可能“牵挂”到你。

我看主流的FORUM，总能一下子自然地把人分出等级。My immediate responses:

A. Oh my! this is a genius.

B. Well, he is good.

c. Don't know. Need further observation

D. He don't know what he's talkin' about.

E. Well, this guy don't know nothing. Is he from the earth?

在每个语种中，总是有几个A类的，他们的发言让我心潮澎湃。比如南非一个(男的)， 巴西一个(男)， 法国一个(女)， 美国几个(一个女，干德文的，几个男、女，干中文的)，英国一个TOM，新加坡两个(一男一女)，中国几个(二女，其他都是男)等等。看他们，比看名家的散文还要激动。你想想看，这些人，你把项目交给他，能不放心吗？不用什么测试，直接发项目就是了。他们不可能做不好。这些人都是做得好的，年入12万以上。基本上来说，只要有新客户找他们， 他们通过邮件沟通，几个回合下来，客户就会打消测试啊，REFERENCE啊之类的念头，直接就用他们了。

新人起码要做到C以上，否则，前方的道路会很崎岖。

等有时间我举几个D和E的例子。 NO OFFENDING。



[Edited at 2013-06-06 03:21 GMT]

jyuan_us wrote:

E. Well, this guy don't know nothing. Is he from the earth?

'Anything' is the appropriate form for a question or negative statement. You chose 'nothing' and created a double negative (doesn't know nothing ), which is not permitted in standard English.

ysun wrote:


常会听到某些西裔和非裔美国人使用 “This guy doesn't know nothing” 的句型。这是一种 double negative construction。据说西班牙语和葡萄牙语允许使用 double negative 结构，故其后裔说英语时可能会受影响。但我认为，尽管人们能够理解这句话的意思，但正确的说法应该是：This guy doesn't know anything.

Rita Pang wrote:

I believe the inability to pick out grammar mistakes, over-extension of grammar usage (such as double negation here- a "direct" translation) is also another indicator to the person's familiarity with the language.

Rita Pang wrote:





I believe the inability to pick out grammar mistakes, over-extension of grammar usage (such as double negation here- a "direct" translation) is also another indicator to the person's familiarity with the language. This is why I am a believer when I say that one's correspondence by email with agencies/clients are often most indicative of one's level of comprehension of a certain language.

Alan Wang wrote:

People easily betray themselves to be novices in a language simply by finding it necessary to point out something that’s nothing unusual for the every-day users of the language.

It' simply safer to refrain from correcting others in relation to language usage unless one is absolutely sure that he himself is a born native speaker.

jyuan_us wrote:


用雙否來表達單否定的用法在某些英語NATIVE地區是很正常的，不是翻譯自西班牙或葡萄牙語。當然這只限於口語。跟那些地方的人說話你只能說 don't do nothing，說了 don't do anything， 對方反而認為你不會說他們的話。

Rita Pang wrote:

离我家附近有一个社区

。。。。那儿的青少年都就是这样说话的。说don't do anything虽不至于被人认为你不会说他的话，但绝对无法和该区的人打成一片。