Help with this translation Portuguese to English Thread poster: Clara Gomez and Marcelo Bellizzi
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Dear Fellow Translators, While reviewing a translation by another professional, I think the following is a mistranslation. I am kindly requesting your honest feedback and would appreciate if you have a suggestion to improve the quality. To give you some context, this is in an Agreement between an Exhibitor and a Trade Show representative from the Maritime Industry. Text in Portuguese: O Valor de lançamento somente será válido para o pagamento do sinal ... See more Dear Fellow Translators, While reviewing a translation by another professional, I think the following is a mistranslation. I am kindly requesting your honest feedback and would appreciate if you have a suggestion to improve the quality. To give you some context, this is in an Agreement between an Exhibitor and a Trade Show representative from the Maritime Industry. Text in Portuguese: O Valor de lançamento somente será válido para o pagamento do sinal efetivado até o dia 03/12/12 após essa data será aplicada a tabela da data da quitação do sinal. Translated text: The POSTING amount shall only be valid for the down payment effected until 12/03/2012; after this date, the table of the down payment's settlement date shall be considered. ------------------ YOUR SUGGESTIONS WILL BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. BEST REGARDS, CLARA GOMEZ TOTAL TRANSLATIONS, INC. ▲ Collapse | | | neilmac Spain Local time: 03:24 Spanish to English + ... Post as kudoz query | Dec 23, 2012 |
Although I am not a Portuguese translator myself, I agree that on face value that "POST value" for "Valor de lançamento" looks like it could be a mistranslation. The end of the sentence looks a bit awkward too. Google translates offers "valor de lançamento" as "release value" which is used in shipping of goods, but I think more context is needed. To have a better idea, I'd need more context, so I recommend posting it as a kudoz query to see what our colleagues suggest. | | | Jeff Whittaker United States Local time: 21:24 Member (2002) Spanish to English + ... This is a perfect example... | Dec 24, 2012 |
of a translation worth .06 a word. Garbage! | | | Vítor Cortes Portugal Local time: 02:24 English to Portuguese + ... Eu penso que será mais assim... | Apr 11, 2013 |
O MONTANTE de lançamento será apenas válido para o pagamento do sinal efetivado até o dia 12/03/2012, após essa data, o valor a pagar será referente à tabela de datas para liquidação de pagamento de sinais. Espero ter ajudado. Vítor Cortes | |
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Source text is not any good | Apr 11, 2013 |
Clara Gomez and Marcelo Bellizzi wrote: Text in Portuguese: O Valor de lançamento somente será válido para o pagamento do sinal efetivado até o dia 03/12/12 após essa data será aplicada a tabela da data da quitação do sinal. "Valor de lançamento" is the amount entered on accounting records. Therefore a timely payment made will be entered as the same amount appearing on the corresponding notice, while a late payment will include any penalties for the delay. "será aplicada a tabela da data da quitação" is poorly written. From a PT-PT standpoint, this is going too far beyond PT-BR in leaving things implied, rather than stating them explicitly. Either "a tabela será aplicada para a data da quitação" or "o índice/fator da tabela será aplicado para a data da quitação" should do. Clara Gomez and Marcelo Bellizzi wrote: Translated text: The POSTING amount shall only be valid for the down payment effected until 12/03/2012; after this date, the table of the down payment's settlement date shall be considered. If we take what is actually meant here, a possible option would be: The amount payable/due shown (on the notification? agreement?) shall be valid only if the down payment is made by 12/03/12; thereafter the down payment table (index? factor?) for the actual payment date shall be applied. I hope this is not another job like the one I'm doing right now... a possibly 20+ pages agreement crammed into just one! All in 4-pt Arial, single-spaced lines. They apparently felt so sure that nobody would be able to read it without a good magnifying glass (yet OCR worked!), that typos and missing words abound. People tend to get careless when they know that nobody will be watching. | | | To report site rules violations or get help, contact a site moderator: You can also contact site staff by submitting a support request » Help with this translation Portuguese to English Trados Business Manager Lite | Create customer quotes and invoices from within Trados Studio
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