appartenenza gerarchica

19:44 Sep 12, 2012 

Are you disagreeing with "it is a translator's duty to make every effort to fully understand the source text, so he/she can translate well"? You are always asking for more context (just as I do), then out of the blue you suddenly say that the context is not the translator's problem. I'm lost!

18:57 Sep 12, 2012 

We don't know what kind of hierarchy it is, but the customer almost certainly will. In fact Russell (who's gone quiet) will probably know from the rest of the document.

14:25 Sep 12, 2012 

I think it is a translator's duty (problem) to make every effort to fully understand the source text, so he/she can translate well. In this case you need to do some research and find out what type of hierarchy it is. One simple way is to phone or email the author and ask. Obviously, your answer is probably the best given the context, but in my opinion it is Russell's "problem as the translator".

19:40 Sep 11, 2012 

That's precisely what I said. We don't know what kind of a hierarchy it is, but we can't just give up on translating it. Russell asked us to translate "appartenenza gerarchica", and "position in the hierarchy" is how I'd render it with no other context.

19:16 Sep 11, 2012 

I didn't expect Phil to say what he did. If you don't know who or what the intestatario is and what type of hierarchy it is, then you are shooting in the dark. Could be position in an organisation chart, or where in the pecking order.