Nov 9, 2003 11:59
20 yrs ago
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Catalan to English
Law/Patents
maintenance contract
Segona.- En cas d’avaria o mal funcionament de l’equip la ABC comunicarà telefònicament a l’empresa X les anomalies observades.
Les visites de reparació en número il·limitat seran efectuades a petició de l’ usuari pel personal qualificat de X. És possible que transcorrin de 3 a 10 dies entre la trucada i la visita.
***X donarà prioritat a la resposta sobre clients que no tinguin contracte.
Només en casos excepcionals, quan no sigui possible la reparació en els locals on es trobi instal·lat l’ equip, X podrà retirar l’ equip per reparar-lo als seus laboratoris, assumint en aquest cas la custòdia de l’equip.
I may be wrong but it seesm we have a case here of poor writing, the plague of translators:-(
When they refer to 'reposta' surely they are referring to contracted clients such as ABC over and above non-contracted clients. So the sentence should read: X will award priority to its response to contracted as opposed to non-contracted clients, or similar???????
Les visites de reparació en número il·limitat seran efectuades a petició de l’ usuari pel personal qualificat de X. És possible que transcorrin de 3 a 10 dies entre la trucada i la visita.
***X donarà prioritat a la resposta sobre clients que no tinguin contracte.
Només en casos excepcionals, quan no sigui possible la reparació en els locals on es trobi instal·lat l’ equip, X podrà retirar l’ equip per reparar-lo als seus laboratoris, assumint en aquest cas la custòdia de l’equip.
I may be wrong but it seesm we have a case here of poor writing, the plague of translators:-(
When they refer to 'reposta' surely they are referring to contracted clients such as ABC over and above non-contracted clients. So the sentence should read: X will award priority to its response to contracted as opposed to non-contracted clients, or similar???????
Proposed translations
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| 5 +1 | exactly |
Hanna Stochnialek
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| 4 | yes, but .... |
Jeanne Zang
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Proposed translations
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Hanna Stochnialek
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Native in: Polish 
Works in: Spanish to Polish, English to Polish, Polish to Spanish, and 4 more.
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exactly
you are right. Your interpretation nis absolutely correct.
3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Gracias a todos :-)"
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Jeanne Zang
United States
United States
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United States
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Native in: English
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yes, but ....
I agree with Hanna that your interpretation must be correct, BUT, unless I'm missing something here, I also agree with you that this is poorly written. My strong opinion is that it is not the translator's job to fix mistakes in the original. In such cases, I translate the text as is, then add a translator's note.
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Berni Armstrong
: I usually do the opposite - I correct and then add a note explaining the error. I am usually thanked for it.
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Yes, you could do it that way, too. The important thing is to make it clear that something was amiss in the original.
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