On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 03:29:57PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
>
> having lived and worked in a non-english-speaking country, i think this may
> vary by individual. translating back and forth was too much work and too
> distracting for me.
I found that if the translation is done once (when the work is more or
less done), it is not a huge burden and it even helps to improve the
native tong paper (ironing out fuzzy wording or discovering a simpler
way to say).
>additionally, i found the x:y language dictionaries to be
> especially inaccurate for technical terms.
FWIW, I know refer to the Elsevier's dictionary of computer science and
mathematics that only gives the vocabulary in 4 languages : english,
german, french, russian. It happens that my native tong is one of them.
Some expressions are impossible to guess or to obtain by raw
translation.
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