How to deal with foreign words/phrases to the language pair? Thread poster: Menaouer Chaabi
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Hello everyone!
I was working on some texts of different specialized fields from German to Arabic,
and sometimes I do encounter a bunch of English words/phrases which aren't that
hard to grasp, in fact, most of the time authors just expect reader to know some basic
English to get going with their technical books for example...
So in case there is a third party language (English or any language) in the source text,
wha... See more Hello everyone!
I was working on some texts of different specialized fields from German to Arabic,
and sometimes I do encounter a bunch of English words/phrases which aren't that
hard to grasp, in fact, most of the time authors just expect reader to know some basic
English to get going with their technical books for example...
So in case there is a third party language (English or any language) in the source text,
what would be the most appropriate approach one can take, if it depends, then how?
P.S. any piece of theory in this regard is appreciated. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Emanuele Vacca 
Italy
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Member (2020)
English to Italian
| Check it on a case-by-case basis | Mar 15, 2023 |
In my opinion, you should try to understand in each separate case what is the most common way to say that term/phrase in your target language, whether it's a term/phrase in your target language itself or it is just left in English or other languages (just to make a silly example, music language in every natural language contains a lot of Italian words). In the Italian financial jargon, for example, a lot of words are just left in English, but you still need to be very careful when translating be... See more In my opinion, you should try to understand in each separate case what is the most common way to say that term/phrase in your target language, whether it's a term/phrase in your target language itself or it is just left in English or other languages (just to make a silly example, music language in every natural language contains a lot of Italian words). In the Italian financial jargon, for example, a lot of words are just left in English, but you still need to be very careful when translating because you might end up leaving in English terms or phrases that do have a common translation into Italian. Hence, my advice is that you should check this on a case-by-case basis, using authoritative sources in your target language such as newspapers, magazines, academic papers, regulatory authorities' websites etc. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Depends on the target audience | Mar 17, 2023 |
If it is a court document that will be legalised with an apostille, I would leave them in the foreign language with a possible translation in-between brackets.
Anything else, I would translate if you are 99% sure.
| | | | | Depends on the language | Mar 17, 2023 |
I can't talk for all languages, but Germans, for example, have the tendency to translate everything (well, more then we Dutch anyway). So, when I see English words/terms in a German text, they are put there on purpose, and 'normally' I leave them untranslated.
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