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Poll: Once your translation has been published/delivered, do you enjoy re-reading it? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Once your translation has been published/delivered, do you enjoy re-reading it?".
This poll was originally submitted by Helga Lemiere. View the poll results »
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I am sure I would find something to change
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Depends on whether I enjoyed translating that subject or not.
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I'm too busy working on something else!
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Susanna Martoni 
Italy
Local time: 17:18
Member (2009)
Spanish to Italian
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For some especially "hard" texts, a re-reading after delivery is a kind of personal satisfaction even if sometimes this is a dangerous tecnique (yes, because something should have been changed).
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Angola
Local time: 17:18
English to French
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I'm with Elvira and Gianluca on this one. But I like to read ABOUT the translation - feedback, new developments on the subject...
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Samir Sami
Qatar
Local time: 18:18
Arabic to English
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Enjoy might not be the perfect description here.
Sometimes my work falls accidentally in my hands, with no time to scan it at all.
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Gianluca Marras wrote:
I am sure I would find something to change
Couldn't agree more
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Simon Cole
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:18
Member (2008)
French to English
I agree with everyone. Who has time? And how much would I change?
And when I worked in industry - my 'real' job before translation - I don't recall ever reading one of my technical reports just for fun!
Happy Christmas one and all
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David Wright
Austria
Local time: 17:18
German to English
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I'm usually quite proud of works that actually get published (not my usual field) but it can also be pretty embarassing.
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 17:18
Member (2009)
English to German
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Generally speaking, no.
The more specific answer is, it depends greatly on the project and on the time factor.
Usually there isn't enough time to go back to a finished and accepted/endorsed project.
All the changes that would/could pop up in my mind when re-reading i. e. a literary project, even more when a certain artistic liberty had been granted.... I would never get anything else done. And there's always a chance, the possibilty, the probabilty of "editing" a ... See more Generally speaking, no.
The more specific answer is, it depends greatly on the project and on the time factor.
Usually there isn't enough time to go back to a finished and accepted/endorsed project.
All the changes that would/could pop up in my mind when re-reading i. e. a literary project, even more when a certain artistic liberty had been granted.... I would never get anything else done. And there's always a chance, the possibilty, the probabilty of "editing" a project "to death". ▲ Collapse
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Tatty
Local time: 17:18
Spanish to English
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| The ultimate test | Dec 13, 2010 |
I don't have much work published myself but I've done the odd website and I think that my rereading it in context is the ultimate test. I've always been very pleased. I've never understood this idea of keep wanting to make changes to translations. I just do the translation thoroughly in the first place.
When I first started out translating I used to try to re-read a selection of my translations at the end of each month to see if I could have improved them in any way.
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Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:18
Russian to English
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In memoriam
I once translated a novel, and I enjoy looking back at that occasionally, also at translations of poems. But not commercial, legal or technical texts.
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Like others, I'm afraid of finding something I want to change, but sometimes I get the urge to take a moment to enjoy it. This is more likely with a literary translation. I translated a some of my husband's work (he wrote 14 books plus hundreds of articles), and I enjoy going over those.
But once I find something I don't like - I never look at it again.
Funnily, I'm less critical of my own original writing than I am of my translations, and I enjoy re-reading it a lot m... See more Like others, I'm afraid of finding something I want to change, but sometimes I get the urge to take a moment to enjoy it. This is more likely with a literary translation. I translated a some of my husband's work (he wrote 14 books plus hundreds of articles), and I enjoy going over those.
But once I find something I don't like - I never look at it again.
Funnily, I'm less critical of my own original writing than I am of my translations, and I enjoy re-reading it a lot more. ▲ Collapse
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Elvira Alves Barry wrote:
I'm too busy working on something else!
Same here. I'd like to make time to go over a few selected projects after a suitable lapse of time for a critical review, but there are so many things to do (business development- and CPD-wise) and time is at a premium...
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